Anyone can build nuclear weapons. It's relatively simple, the hard part is finding the uranium/plutonium. All you gotta do is take some chunks of uranium(that have a total mass more than the critical mass) and slam them together hard enough to start a reaction.
Actually, I think aragorn looks fine for his character's role. He is in exile, you have to remember, he's a ranger.
Long hair doesn't work well for fighters, but it fits with the mythic european prehistory feel. If you look at most paintings of kings and warriors from scandinavia, they have long hair and beards. It fits perfectly, IMO. Might not be the most practical hairstyle for fighting, but it was certainly popular in the time periods that influenced tolkien...
I really don't think that anyone disagrees with you. But I would be willing to bet that if the British government had proof of which US citizens had funded the IRA, the US government would be more than willing to extradite them to be tried in Britain...
We did not support the Taliban against the USSR. Hell, it didn't even EXIST until 1995. We're not quite sure if we trained Bin Laden, because we trained quite a few people back then. We trained what is know the northern alliance, which is the only recognized government in Afghanistan. I'm not sure about the war on drugs part, haven't heard anything about that, But I agree if it is true...
The russians were trying to conquer everyone in Afghanistan, while we just want to kill the terrorists and get rid of the taliban. A much simpler goal, especially with the northern alliance on our side. We did give Afghanistan(the northern alliance government) weapons during the russian invasion, which is one reason the russians had little success. Of course they still have lots of the weapons we gave them, but they probably used many of them trying to kill each other in the last 10 years, and if not, they're 20 or so years old anyway.
If we do win (almost certain in my mind), the Northern Alliance would likely be returned to power, and perhaps there would be a democracy set up. In which case, it seems that the northern alliance and more moderate civilians, and basicly all women would be thankful to have gotten rid of such an intolerant regime. You don't see much protests out of Japan and Germany for the US making them the most economically powerful nations in their respective regions, do you? Not saying that the same will happen here, but freedom itself is as valuable, if not moreso, than economic power.
This is, however, assuming that we manage to keep humanitarian aid flowing to the innocent afghans, even during the war. If not, we'll only make more pissed off people who's families have been destroyed at the hands of 'evil americans'..
Hell, If we play our cards right with the northern alliance(which is the actual recognized government in afghanistan, except for Saudi Arabia and Pakistan), we may not need to have much more than a few thousand special ops units to do the actual operations, and use our normal troops to help the northern alliance regain control and set up a new government...
US Citizens sponsored the IRA, not the government. There were many sympathetic irish immigrants in certain areas of the US.
The main reason we were against the war in Chechnya is because of the alleged atrocities commited by the Russian army. Aside from that, the people in chechnya were domestic rebels, not full blown international terrorists...
Sure, I guess you've never bought anything off the internet... Almost everyone that uses the internet uses some type of encryption, even if it is only SSL...
Or just keep exchanging for the same disc over and over...
Once they lose a massive amount of money, theyll figure it out...
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By my calulations, they have a range of 3200 nautical miles. Just multiply the cruise speed by the time they can stay in the air. Seems long enough to spy almost anywhere in afghanistan from pakistan...
Console games have never been bug-free, even the high-quality ones. They've just been PATCH-free, and actually, some games do recieve patches, its just that only new pressings of the game get patched, not the ones already sold...
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You have played LoZ: A link to the Past, haven't you? If not, then don't say anything about Zelda being sacrificed, because the new zelda is a great looking 3d stylized version of LttP's art, which was probably the second best zelda ever, after OoT. They can't just remake the same game over and over, and many companies are already copying OoT, so they want something that will surprise people, and attract attention. If you are ashamed to play a highly stylized game with bright graphics, then good for you, I hope you have fun with your x-box, but Zelda has definately NOT been sacrificed..
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There are working Debug consoles, which actually look cooler than the real thing. I dunno if they are running full-speed though. IGN has one, go check it out
If I recall correctly, their joysticks and mice and controllers are manufactured by Logitech, and only labeled as Microsoft. I do agree that most of that stuff is high quality.
War on innocent civilians is DEFINATELY not a teaching of Mohammed. The Koran teaches that even during a Jihad (which this is not, as a holy war must be declared by an islamic cleric, which Bin Laden certainly isn't), you should not kill women, children or the elderly. You should also not destroy building or destroy any tree or plant that still has a green leaf on it.
I am not muslim, but it makes me sick to see all these people blaming the acts on muslims. I could say that all Christians support the inquisitions or the holocaust, but it would not be true, just as these people's ideas about Islam are not true.
BTW, thanks for showing some intelligence, and sorry if I'm ranting
Because obviously there are ways around it, and the criminals will keep thinking up new ways around new rights-limiting laws, until we have no rights at all. That would truly be an America I would no longer want to be a part of. A place where everyone is more concerned about being able to afford gas for their SUV and making sure that their nice neat suburban bi-level house is safe from the evil influences of things like terrorists or dare we say it, drugs... These same people will be the ones bitching the loudest when they are no longer allowed to watch porno or football, because the government deems them "dangerous speech"...
BTW, I do agree about the quote being heavily overused now...
Which is why you would have to train pilots to sacrifice passengers for the safety of people on the ground. Many commercial pilots are ex-military pilots, so they should be used to it...
Also, you could have a handgun in a lockbox in the cockpit, that could be opened in an emergency, so the door only needs to be strong enough to give the crew time to formulate a plan and open the lockbox.
But the thing is, from my vantage point, Americans have wanted to attack many of these same terrorists for some time now. We now have an excellent excuse to do basicly whatever we want.
As an aside, I seriously don't beleive that we do this just for oil. The main reason we are involved in the middle east is to protect the jews. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and many other middle eastern countries have quite strong trade with the US. Suadi Arabia seems to quite enjoy all the money they recieve in exchange for oil, and the US influence doesn't appear to have seriously weakened the Islam religion in that area. We definately to have interests in protecting our trading partners in the middle east, but we haven't interfered with any countries sovereignty or anybody's religion.
I don't really know everything though, so I could always be wrong....
I've been watching the BBC, MSNBC and CNN, and I haven't seen that many differences between the american and international media. The main difference I notice was that the international media had more information on the muslim side. American news focused mainly on our allies, with breaks to show cheering palestinians (obviously, gotta have SOME sensationalism, they gotta make the money...). I only saw a few minor differences, although I agree that the american media focused MUCH more on the human side, showing family members, firefighters, and all kinds of emergency workers...
I thought you only had to be 21 to buy handguns, but rifles and shotguns are legal for 18+ year olds to own...
Either way, I agree completely. If this law, or anything remotely similar to it are passed, then the terrorists will truly have won.
Aside from that, has anyone seen the changes to security the FAA is making. Incredibly stupid if you ask me. What is so difficult about putting a reinforced steel bulkhead in between passengers and the cockpit. Or put a small room in between passenger compartments and the cockpit with a couple armed air marshalls in it. It really doesn't seem like the government thinks very much any more, does it?
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Anyone can build nuclear weapons. It's relatively simple, the hard part is finding the uranium/plutonium. All you gotta do is take some chunks of uranium(that have a total mass more than the critical mass) and slam them together hard enough to start a reaction.
I do agree with the photos and stuff though..
Actually, I think aragorn looks fine for his character's role. He is in exile, you have to remember, he's a ranger.
Long hair doesn't work well for fighters, but it fits with the mythic european prehistory feel. If you look at most paintings of kings and warriors from scandinavia, they have long hair and beards. It fits perfectly, IMO. Might not be the most practical hairstyle for fighting, but it was certainly popular in the time periods that influenced tolkien...
Since when has constitutionality had any factor as to which laws are passed by congress?
I do beleive you are right though, but IANAL...
Even the freeware version integrates pretty well into outlook. Not sure about eudora though.
The best thing about the commercial version, IMO, is PGPdisk...
I really don't think that anyone disagrees with you. But I would be willing to bet that if the British government had proof of which US citizens had funded the IRA, the US government would be more than willing to extradite them to be tried in Britain...
We did not support the Taliban against the USSR. Hell, it didn't even EXIST until 1995. We're not quite sure if we trained Bin Laden, because we trained quite a few people back then. We trained what is know the northern alliance, which is the only recognized government in Afghanistan. I'm not sure about the war on drugs part, haven't heard anything about that, But I agree if it is true...
The russians were trying to conquer everyone in Afghanistan, while we just want to kill the terrorists and get rid of the taliban. A much simpler goal, especially with the northern alliance on our side. We did give Afghanistan(the northern alliance government) weapons during the russian invasion, which is one reason the russians had little success. Of course they still have lots of the weapons we gave them, but they probably used many of them trying to kill each other in the last 10 years, and if not, they're 20 or so years old anyway.
If we do win (almost certain in my mind), the Northern Alliance would likely be returned to power, and perhaps there would be a democracy set up. In which case, it seems that the northern alliance and more moderate civilians, and basicly all women would be thankful to have gotten rid of such an intolerant regime. You don't see much protests out of Japan and Germany for the US making them the most economically powerful nations in their respective regions, do you? Not saying that the same will happen here, but freedom itself is as valuable, if not moreso, than economic power.
This is, however, assuming that we manage to keep humanitarian aid flowing to the innocent afghans, even during the war. If not, we'll only make more pissed off people who's families have been destroyed at the hands of 'evil americans'..
Hell, If we play our cards right with the northern alliance(which is the actual recognized government in afghanistan, except for Saudi Arabia and Pakistan), we may not need to have much more than a few thousand special ops units to do the actual operations, and use our normal troops to help the northern alliance regain control and set up a new government...
US Citizens sponsored the IRA, not the government. There were many sympathetic irish immigrants in certain areas of the US.
The main reason we were against the war in Chechnya is because of the alleged atrocities commited by the Russian army. Aside from that, the people in chechnya were domestic rebels, not full blown international terrorists...
Sure, I guess you've never bought anything off the internet... Almost everyone that uses the internet uses some type of encryption, even if it is only SSL...
Or just keep exchanging for the same disc over and over...
Once they lose a massive amount of money, theyll figure it out...
By my calulations, they have a range of 3200 nautical miles. Just multiply the cruise speed by the time they can stay in the air. Seems long enough to spy almost anywhere in afghanistan from pakistan...
I volunteer to be the first person to smoke a J in space... Much better than alocohol...
Console games have never been bug-free, even the high-quality ones. They've just been PATCH-free, and actually, some games do recieve patches, its just that only new pressings of the game get patched, not the ones already sold...
You have played LoZ: A link to the Past, haven't you? If not, then don't say anything about Zelda being sacrificed, because the new zelda is a great looking 3d stylized version of LttP's art, which was probably the second best zelda ever, after OoT. They can't just remake the same game over and over, and many companies are already copying OoT, so they want something that will surprise people, and attract attention. If you are ashamed to play a highly stylized game with bright graphics, then good for you, I hope you have fun with your x-box, but Zelda has definately NOT been sacrificed..
There are working Debug consoles, which actually look cooler than the real thing. I dunno if they are running full-speed though. IGN has one, go check it out
If I recall correctly, their joysticks and mice and controllers are manufactured by Logitech, and only labeled as Microsoft. I do agree that most of that stuff is high quality.
War on innocent civilians is DEFINATELY not a teaching of Mohammed. The Koran teaches that even during a Jihad (which this is not, as a holy war must be declared by an islamic cleric, which Bin Laden certainly isn't), you should not kill women, children or the elderly. You should also not destroy building or destroy any tree or plant that still has a green leaf on it.
I am not muslim, but it makes me sick to see all these people blaming the acts on muslims. I could say that all Christians support the inquisitions or the holocaust, but it would not be true, just as these people's ideas about Islam are not true.
BTW, thanks for showing some intelligence, and sorry if I'm ranting
Because obviously there are ways around it, and the criminals will keep thinking up new ways around new rights-limiting laws, until we have no rights at all. That would truly be an America I would no longer want to be a part of. A place where everyone is more concerned about being able to afford gas for their SUV and making sure that their nice neat suburban bi-level house is safe from the evil influences of things like terrorists or dare we say it, drugs... These same people will be the ones bitching the loudest when they are no longer allowed to watch porno or football, because the government deems them "dangerous speech"...
BTW, I do agree about the quote being heavily overused now...
Which is why you would have to train pilots to sacrifice passengers for the safety of people on the ground. Many commercial pilots are ex-military pilots, so they should be used to it...
Also, you could have a handgun in a lockbox in the cockpit, that could be opened in an emergency, so the door only needs to be strong enough to give the crew time to formulate a plan and open the lockbox.
But the thing is, from my vantage point, Americans have wanted to attack many of these same terrorists for some time now. We now have an excellent excuse to do basicly whatever we want.
As an aside, I seriously don't beleive that we do this just for oil. The main reason we are involved in the middle east is to protect the jews. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and many other middle eastern countries have quite strong trade with the US. Suadi Arabia seems to quite enjoy all the money they recieve in exchange for oil, and the US influence doesn't appear to have seriously weakened the Islam religion in that area. We definately to have interests in protecting our trading partners in the middle east, but we haven't interfered with any countries sovereignty or anybody's religion.
I don't really know everything though, so I could always be wrong....
No, but we could definately have sky marshalls on board all flights until the planes are retrofitted...
I've been watching the BBC, MSNBC and CNN, and I haven't seen that many differences between the american and international media. The main difference I notice was that the international media had more information on the muslim side. American news focused mainly on our allies, with breaks to show cheering palestinians (obviously, gotta have SOME sensationalism, they gotta make the money...). I only saw a few minor differences, although I agree that the american media focused MUCH more on the human side, showing family members, firefighters, and all kinds of emergency workers...
Whats to say that the terrorists used E-Mail at all? As far as I know, the only electronic communication they used were cell phones...
They probably used email for some things, but i doubt they used it for anything important.
I thought you only had to be 21 to buy handguns, but rifles and shotguns are legal for 18+ year olds to own...
Either way, I agree completely. If this law, or anything remotely similar to it are passed, then the terrorists will truly have won.
Aside from that, has anyone seen the changes to security the FAA is making. Incredibly stupid if you ask me. What is so difficult about putting a reinforced steel bulkhead in between passengers and the cockpit. Or put a small room in between passenger compartments and the cockpit with a couple armed air marshalls in it. It really doesn't seem like the government thinks very much any more, does it?