The August 6, 2001 pdb to the pres. said Al Qaeda was probably planning to highjack a plane or planes.
But it doesn't say (at least in the available portion) that they were going to crash them, so there really wasn't anything the president could do.
I suppose releasing the FBI to investigate rich Saudis who were funding the attacks, and shaking the intelligence tree to find out that two of the would-be hijackers were known to be incountry by the CIA, and were known to be Al Qaeda trained terrorists would isn't something a president could do, either.
Indiscriminate arrests detention without trial secret arrests secret detention secret execution kangaroo courts torture to illicit false confessions torture to gather any information, real or fantasy doesn't matter torture yielding insane intel that nevertheless sends cops on wild goose chases neighbor turning in neighbor
even many of the tortures are the same (and why wouldn't they be? of course we've learned from the best).
Beatings that don't leave a mark, stress positions sleep deprivation sexual humiliation religious humiliation force feeding threating summary execution threating family (husbands, wives, even children) etc...
But hey, as long as we compare favorably to the worst tyrrany in history, we've no right to complain.
He's done a bang up job of shoveling tax-payer money to war profiteers, cutting taxes on the rich, and raising the price of oil. That's most of his agenda.
This was a pretty harmless stereotype similar to what most of us say or hear every day without a second thought. But where's the line between an offhand comment by Arnie and darkening Willie Horton's face?
1. Removes one degree of ambiguity in searching. They already have decades of data entered this way, so a switch to all lowercase would be difficult.
2. These are people using old software or stock database software who no longer have the capability to make that modification and don't see why they need it as long as there's a caps lock key.
I don't understand the Jihad to get rid of the key when they could just move it to where every other seldom used key lives.
There isn't really anybody who claims that there weren't a large number of Jewish people slaughtered in WWII. "6 million is way over exaggerated" is in fact the standard holocaust denier line from the neo-nazis to Mel Gibson.
Perhaps the very complexity and eliteness of string theory, combined with the variety and the intricacy of the possibilities it offers is how it has enthralled so many bright, analytical minds without having to shed much light on the universe.
The movie was much better than the reviews I'd heard. It was fun and mostly well put together, and seemed much shorter than its 2 and a half hours. That said, I can see how the subject matter would cause many to recoil. Who wants to learn their divinely inspired sacred scripture was compiled at a conference that was at least as political and practical as it was spiritual, and was attended 100% by mortal men?
Plenty of people did think about flying planes into buildings, and Bush chilled with the school kids for a long time after he was told the country was under attack.
Your musings may seem over the top, but they bring to mind a recent analysis of a roadside bomb that was intercepted while being smuggled into Iraq from Iran.
The bomb was of British design, later sold to the IRA.
The British government is frequently Olympian in its stupidty and corruption, but anything they can do we can do better.
Bush himself has been quoted as saying, "There's nothing wrong with a dictatorship, so long as I'm the dictator." Yes, I'm sure he was joking, but for a president to say that publicly, he's either the world's biggest idiot, or there's a grain of sentimental truth to it.
On three separate occaisions. Does anyone find that acceptable coming from the Commander in Chief of the US military?
IANAP, but at the speed of light time stands still and you can't measure anything. You could imagine two ships flying at each other at 0.99c and you'd have a similar but more tractable problem.
I wouldn't bet on it. I have not RTFA, but someone whose worked on this for Yucca mountain tells me the timescales they consider are on the order of tens of thousands of years, far older than any known language.
Some other interesting assumptions they make are that the US government will survive as is for 100 years, and that the site will be controlled for 200 years.
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The August 6, 2001 pdb to the pres. said Al Qaeda was probably planning to highjack a plane or planes.
But it doesn't say (at least in the available portion) that they were going to crash them, so there really wasn't anything the president could do.
I suppose releasing the FBI to investigate rich Saudis who were funding the attacks, and shaking the intelligence tree to find out that two of the would-be hijackers were known to be incountry by the CIA, and were known to be Al Qaeda trained terrorists would isn't something a president could do, either.
So many similarities.
Indiscriminate arrests
detention without trial
secret arrests
secret detention
secret execution
kangaroo courts
torture to illicit false confessions
torture to gather any information, real or fantasy doesn't matter
torture yielding insane intel that nevertheless sends cops on wild goose chases
neighbor turning in neighbor
even many of the tortures are the same (and why wouldn't they be? of course we've learned from the best).
Beatings that don't leave a mark,
stress positions
sleep deprivation
sexual humiliation
religious humiliation
force feeding
threating summary execution
threating family (husbands, wives, even children)
etc...
But hey, as long as we compare favorably to the worst tyrrany in history, we've no right to complain.
If error is sqrt(n) then percent error is 1/sqrt(n)
He's done a bang up job of shoveling tax-payer money to war profiteers, cutting taxes on the rich, and raising the price of oil. That's most of his agenda.
This was a pretty harmless stereotype similar to what most of us say or hear every day without a second thought. But where's the line between an offhand comment by Arnie and darkening Willie Horton's face?
1. Removes one degree of ambiguity in searching. They already have decades of data entered this way, so a switch to all lowercase would be difficult.
2. These are people using old software or stock database software who no longer have the capability to make that modification and don't see why they need it as long as there's a caps lock key.
I don't understand the Jihad to get rid of the key when they could just move it to where every other seldom used key lives.
There isn't really anybody who claims that there weren't a large number of Jewish people slaughtered in WWII. "6 million is way over exaggerated" is in fact the standard holocaust denier line from the neo-nazis to Mel Gibson.
Some people just instinctively run from trouble. It's not an entirely dumb reaction. Running is never enough justification for a police shooting.
I never understood the "bring home for Emma" part. Did he think he might mistakenly do something else with the food?
Editing Wikipedia's not much different then posting on
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On the serious side,
1. The ants are decades ahead of us in pedometer miniaturization.
2. They've managed to keep their advanced technology secret for years.
3. They finally revealed it only after brutal mutilation.
These three facts together should give us pause.
Perhaps the very complexity and eliteness of string theory, combined with the variety and the intricacy of the possibilities it offers is how it has enthralled so many bright, analytical minds without having to shed much light on the universe.
If you have a handful, or only one company controlling how you can use the internet, it's not a free market.
The movie was much better than the reviews I'd heard. It was fun and mostly well put together, and seemed much shorter than its 2 and a half hours. That said, I can see how the subject matter would cause many to recoil. Who wants to learn their divinely inspired sacred scripture was compiled at a conference that was at least as political and practical as it was spiritual, and was attended 100% by mortal men?
Plenty of people did think about flying planes into buildings, and Bush chilled with the school kids for a long time after he was told the country was under attack.
Other than that, interesting post.
"Life before enlightenment?" Chop wood, carry water. "Life after enlightenment?" Chop wood, carry water.
Oh yeah? Well fuck you, enlightenment.
What's depressing is that in 2006 your observations are insightful and not embarrasingly obvious to everyone.
Your musings may seem over the top, but they bring to mind a recent analysis of a roadside bomb that was intercepted while being smuggled into Iraq from Iran.
The bomb was of British design, later sold to the IRA.
The British government is frequently Olympian in its stupidty and corruption, but anything they can do we can do better.
Bush himself has been quoted as saying, "There's nothing wrong with a dictatorship, so long as I'm the dictator." Yes, I'm sure he was joking, but for a president to say that publicly, he's either the world's biggest idiot, or there's a grain of sentimental truth to it.
On three separate occaisions. Does anyone find that acceptable coming from the Commander in Chief of the US military?
But they did pluralize words with 'f's.
IANAP, but at the speed of light time stands still and you can't measure anything. You could imagine two ships flying at each other at 0.99c and you'd have a similar but more tractable problem.
I feel the exact same way. I've never even owned a console before, as a kid or as an adult with my own kids.
I wouldn't bet on it. I have not RTFA, but someone whose worked on this for Yucca mountain tells me the timescales they consider are on the order of tens of thousands of years, far older than any known language.
Some other interesting assumptions they make are that the US government will survive as is for 100 years, and that the site will be controlled for 200 years.
Oh, and there's no shame in designing on paper... the day will come when you don't need to do it, but until then it does no harm.
And then another day comes when you need to again.
Game movies suck for the same reason any other licensed property sucks: because it can.