agnet blue is a broadleaf herbicide otherwise known as 2-4-T agnet blue is also an organic acid. agent white is a narrowleaf herbicide I'm not sure of the comercial name but it kills grasses such as bambo and is an organic alcohol.
Toxicity of both agents are extremely low, but the manufacturer does recomment standard indusrtial hygene mesures when handling ether herbicide. So of course because both were being used in the same area somebody had the bright Idea to react them into a single compound by using a routine esterification reaction, basic sophmore organic chemistry stuff (usual 2nd week in lab). Well some how traces of dioxins were found in the new agent orange and agent orange got blamed for the vague hard to pin down recuring health problems that seem to always happen to soldiers that spend time at war.
The herbicide usage is not chemical warefare as herbicides are not directed at people. Technicaly we did use a chemical warefare agent in Vietnam and it was agent CS, or tear gas(it smells a bit peppery) and CS replaced CN which smelled like appleblossoms, the same stuff that the police and anti-war protestors used to play volleyball with back home.
I'm still trying to figure out how we know nerve agent GB (Tabin) smells like mown hay and nerve agent GA (Sarin) smells garlicey. Nobody knows what VX smells like.
$40.00 a month isn't too bad but I think its just an out-of-the-air figure to start a converstion. Firgure that they are doing basic cable-tv, ultra-highspeed wan access and probably highspeed internet and the figure is very attractive. I'm supposing that broadband internet and premium cable channels would be value added products, but they'd still be competative with commercial offerings.
Likewise I normaly be against moving toward big-government too but at least with local governments you can pack the town-hall mettings when they start getting dunder-headed and can vote the rascals out if need be.
What I understood is comcast basical told aol what ip nembers they were using for dhcp so aol could block them. I think comcasts rational is if we do it this way, we get what we want which is no servers but make aol look like the bad guys. Additionaly aol which historicaly been aimed at the "easy to use" crowd but a little different the real internet gets pushed a little further into its death-spiral by segregating themselves in a medium that's main functionality is in it's integration.
I'm sure you're misreading something in the mail headers if your getting significant amounts of spam from yahoo. It's not unusual for significant amounts of spam to come from a non-yahoo address, but have a yahoo address in the from or reply to fields. You just cann't pump enough data through the web-interface to make it worth while. Additionaly the abuse departments at yahoo and hotmail are pretty on the ball, most of the time I complain to them I often cc to the offender and 95% of the time it bounces because the account was already terminated.
one reason why France/Germany/Russia are against war is that they know what occupation is Well lets see 1. Germany ocupied France, 2. Germany occupied Russia 3. US occupied Germany; Germany was occupied but France and Germany were victims of genocide; you would think that French and Russians would identify more with the Kurds and Shites than the facist dictator.
Well lets be blunt, Sadaam Hussein owes $9 Billion Dollars to France and $9 Billion Dollars Russia and it appears to me that both countries would rather have untold numbers of Iraqis civilians raped, tortured, and murdered than risk not getting their money. I short in my book both countries sold their souls, and many of us will rembember.
put all of their cards on the table in this case it means France and Russia should explain how many Human lives are worth $9 Billion Dollars? Do French or Russian Lives count as say 4 times an Iraqi lives?
the resolution that sent the inspectors clearly did not authorize the invasion Duh they violated the cease-fire from the first war, the resolutions related to inspection supported the cease-fire, not supercede them. If you Mortgage your house and don't pay the note, don't cry when you lose the house. When you execpt an early out on parole from prison with conditions and you violate the terms of the parole, don't cry when you go back to prison. When you except a cease-fire agreement and violate the terms, don't cry when the ass-kicking starts again. There is an obvious pattern here.
That would kinda be like artists releaseing mp3's of their work so you could tell if you like it in general. Maybe keep the bitrate down enough so the quality wasn't as good a the "real thing" but you wouldn't get hit with the old there's only one song on the CD worth listening to because the poor artists have to put out x number of cd to fulfill their for-shit recording contract BS.
I think its absurd to think that we're going to "bring democracy and conflict resolution" to a nation by ignoring the democratic processes that the world has set up to resolve conflicts.
There is nothing even remotely democratic about the UN because to much power is involved with the permanat members of the security concil veto. Considering that France and Russia have an outstanding credit balance of $9 Billion each, it's not hard to imagine that they may have let economic considerations influence their veto threats. Maybe the the other residents on this planet need to realise the this planet isn't that big and they need to put all of their cards on the table, not just the ones that don't embarass them too much.
don't believe for a minute that the US has any proof of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. whether or not there are WMD's isn't the point, Iraq agree to let the UN inspectors look for them and they were supposed to coopperate, they did not.
US is aways going to war because countries like France, Germany and Russia have been selling 9 Billion dollars of goods on credit (that's each too) to countires like Iraq, and Iraq doesn't seem to have bought things like food or medicine with it either.
Realy these are kind of lame, what I want is a Geo metro, striped down, some thin-skin armor attached, the 23mm chain gun from the Bradley's and maybe a M2 50 Cal machine gun for anti-personel work, and a Mark 19 40mm grenade launcher installed. run the whole via reomte control, just beam back video and thermal imaging to the operator. This would give RPV a whole new meaning!
There's two kinds of big gun shooting direct fire and indirect fire. Direct fire is aim by the gunner, it's what tanks do aim at the target, add in a little super-elevation to correct for the rounds free fall in flight determined by the targets range, and some defection adjustment to adjust for the round going off course from the wind and let'er rock and roll. In direct fire you want first round kills because when you fire, everybody knows where to shoot back at.
Indirect fire is what artillery does, the round goes through a high ballistic trajectory, but you want the round to travel in as low a trajectory as possible; the higher the round travels, the more likely that it will be picked up by a counter-mortar radar which can calculate the point of origin so the opposing force can shoot back at you. the FO, Forward Observer see's the traget, and tells the FDC, Fire Direction Computer, the approximate grid co-ordinates of the traget, his direction to the target, and what the target is. The FDC then calculates what direction to point the guns in, what elevation to point at, and what charge to use, how much powder. the guns then aim at a two stakes in the ground and fires, usualy one round from the number two gun in the center. If the round hits with-in the burst-radious of the target, then all the guns fire, if not the FO tells the FDC how many meters to left or right, or to add or subtract, the FDC re-computes and 2 gun re-shoots. as soon as the target is hit the unit moves, and re-sets up. This is called shoot and scoot, because if you're still there, the other guys are going to reach out and touch you if they can.
The biggest problem with only giving 60% effort for 60% fee is sooner or later you get to used to 60% effort. Personaly I have good days and bad day so output naturaly varies, but I always do the best I can with the resorces available so I never have trouble looking in the mirror.
When I re-did my mortgage a little while ago, all of the desktop machine monitors were displaying a WinCE logo in screensaver mode. I don't know if these were real PC's or some kind of network computer. I thought it strange, but being basicaly a Linux guy, I wasn't sure how strange; but I bet the liesencing fees for WinCE is a lot less than for WinXP.
actualy the Iranian hate us becoame we supported a tyranical monachial based dictator, the Shaw of Iran, because he let us set up listening posts to keep tabs on what the Soviet Union, a country that once threatened to bury us. Well it's more complicated than that but it's a good nutshell version.
thanks for the links to such highly credable sources especialy greenpeace after they chastised Saddam Hussien for such activities as draining the swamplands in southern Iraq, and burning oil wells and igniting trenches filled with crude oil outside Bagdad, killing vast numbers wild life by dropping Nitrogen Mustard into the swamps near the Iran-Iraq border and turning the rivers into little more than open sewers
based on one post, which contains no evidence...we're supposed to believe that Global Warming is such a big deal? well yes on one hand you have groups of educated people, with a vested interest in maintaining their scientific credibility, from multiple countries saying the evidence says definately we can't be sure, and that the dataset is definatly biassed due to a transient phenomina as the baseline.
And on the other hand you have an arguement that well chicken little could be right. And it realy might be a big deal because it feels like a big deal and of course they believe it's a big deal.
from 50m up you can't even see my city, just trees as far as the eye can see, that's not even the forest it's the city, we very literaly have more trees per surface area in a typical mid-west american city than some european forrests. European cities are typicaly house, sidewalk, street with little or no green area.
American lumber companies plant two trees for every tree harvested, and it's now unusual to see them doing some very advanced forrest management. In south America slash and burn then adbandon the area after the jungle soil turns to rock and move on. And how many times have we seen an African farmer trying to raise 20 head of cattle on a peice of range that might support one healthy cow?
Then I try not to throw a cemment block through the TV everytime I see Captian Planet.
Actualy they rework a lot of stuff routinely just to make sure that if anything interesting is reported its verified and not due to a glitch like a bad write to the disk or a currpted packet and stuff. If Linux machines found something and windows didn't it might represent a port problem that would need to be looked into. Also if a WU isn't recieved back after a while it re-sent to another user so two people may return the same wu results naturaly. If you're using seti@home in screensaver only mode on a 75Mhz Pentium it can take quite a while to complete.
The credit system isn't realy robust like it would have to be say if they were paying for the work done, so they are pretty leinient about credits for doing the work, but very strict about results
Even though there was never any official encryption to begin with (and those who analyzed the CSS code probably consider it as minimal), IANAL but seriously what's encryption legaly? We know that somethings definataly aren't and somethings definatesly are and there is a lot gray in the middle. You maybe right pulse code modulation might count, but I hope not.
Wasn't Celine Deion one of the first name pop artist to have had a un-cd published? At the time I predicted that her career was effectively over and now she doing Vegas, damn I hate it when I'm right.
The only thing the radio station neeeds is a sales staff and one or two local news announcers and they're probably loaners from sales, everything else is leased engineer/station tech support, music, dj, weather and anything else. Radio is now reduced to the lowest common denominator, sales-droids
Man no wonder they didn't post your submissions your saying that for the price of about 3 Cds a month. 1. You get a liciense to broadcast music and very probably the ability to download as much music as you want legaly 2. you get about 50 CD's a month in the mail If that were true then everybody would want a radio station of there own! even if the only one listening were themselves.
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agnet blue is a broadleaf herbicide otherwise known as 2-4-T agnet blue is also an organic acid.
agent white is a narrowleaf herbicide I'm not sure of the comercial name but it kills grasses such as bambo and is an organic alcohol.
Toxicity of both agents are extremely low, but the manufacturer does recomment standard indusrtial hygene mesures when handling ether herbicide. So of course because both were being used in the same area somebody had the bright Idea to react them into a single compound by using a routine esterification reaction, basic sophmore organic chemistry stuff (usual 2nd week in lab). Well some how traces of dioxins were found in the new agent orange and agent orange got blamed for the vague hard to pin down recuring health problems that seem to always happen to soldiers that spend time at war.
The herbicide usage is not chemical warefare as herbicides are not directed at people. Technicaly we did use a chemical warefare agent in Vietnam and it was agent CS, or tear gas(it smells a bit peppery) and CS replaced CN which smelled like appleblossoms, the same stuff that the police and anti-war protestors used to play volleyball with back home.
I'm still trying to figure out how we know nerve agent GB (Tabin) smells like mown hay and nerve agent GA (Sarin) smells garlicey. Nobody knows what VX smells like.
$40.00 a month isn't too bad but I think its just an out-of-the-air figure to start a converstion. Firgure that they are doing basic cable-tv, ultra-highspeed wan access and probably highspeed internet and the figure is very attractive. I'm supposing that broadband internet and premium cable channels would be value added products, but they'd still be competative with commercial offerings.
Likewise I normaly be against moving toward big-government too but at least with local governments you can pack the town-hall mettings when they start getting dunder-headed and can vote the rascals out if need be.
What I understood is comcast basical told aol what ip nembers they were using for dhcp so aol could block them. I think comcasts rational is if we do it this way, we get what we want which is no servers but make aol look like the bad guys. Additionaly aol which historicaly been aimed at the "easy to use" crowd but a little different the real internet gets pushed a little further into its death-spiral by segregating themselves in a medium that's main functionality is in it's integration.
I'm sure you're misreading something in the mail headers if your getting significant amounts of spam from yahoo. It's not unusual for significant amounts of spam to come from a non-yahoo address, but have a yahoo address in the from or reply to fields. You just cann't pump enough data through the web-interface to make it worth while. Additionaly the abuse departments at yahoo and hotmail are pretty on the ball, most of the time I complain to them I often cc to the offender and 95% of the time it bounces because the account was already terminated.
one reason why France/Germany/Russia are against war is that they know what occupation is
Well lets see
1. Germany ocupied France,
2. Germany occupied Russia
3. US occupied Germany;
Germany was occupied but France and Germany were victims of genocide; you would think that French and Russians would identify more with the Kurds and Shites than the facist dictator.
Well lets be blunt,
Sadaam Hussein owes $9 Billion Dollars to France and $9 Billion Dollars Russia and it appears to me that both countries would rather have untold numbers of Iraqis civilians raped, tortured, and murdered than risk not getting their money. I short in my book both countries sold their souls, and many of us will rembember.
put all of their cards on the table
in this case it means France and Russia should explain how many Human lives are worth $9 Billion Dollars? Do French or Russian Lives count as say 4 times an Iraqi lives?
the resolution that sent the inspectors clearly did not authorize the invasion
Duh they violated the cease-fire from the first war, the resolutions related to inspection supported the cease-fire, not supercede them.
If you Mortgage your house and don't pay the note, don't cry when you lose the house.
When you execpt an early out on parole from prison with conditions and you violate the terms of the parole, don't cry when you go back to prison.
When you except a cease-fire agreement and violate the terms, don't cry when the ass-kicking starts again.
There is an obvious pattern here.
That would kinda be like artists releaseing mp3's of their work so you could tell if you like it in general. Maybe keep the bitrate down enough so the quality wasn't as good a the "real thing" but you wouldn't get hit with the old there's only one song on the CD worth listening to because the poor artists have to put out x number of cd to fulfill their for-shit recording contract BS.
I think its absurd to think that we're going to "bring democracy and conflict resolution" to a nation by ignoring the democratic processes that the world has set up to resolve conflicts.
There is nothing even remotely democratic about the UN because to much power is involved with the permanat members of the security concil veto. Considering that France and Russia have an outstanding credit balance of $9 Billion each, it's not hard to imagine that they may have let economic considerations influence their veto threats. Maybe the the other residents on this planet need to realise the this planet isn't that big and they need to put all of their cards on the table, not just the ones that don't embarass them too much.
don't believe for a minute that the US has any proof of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. whether or not there are WMD's isn't the point, Iraq agree to let the UN inspectors look for them and they were supposed to coopperate, they did not.
US is aways going to war because countries like France, Germany and Russia have been selling 9 Billion dollars of goods on credit (that's each too) to countires like Iraq, and Iraq doesn't seem to have bought things like food or medicine with it either.
My favorite was some directions from a Chinese company "put together until looks like picture"
Realy these are kind of lame, what I want is a Geo metro, striped down, some thin-skin armor attached, the 23mm chain gun from the Bradley's and maybe a M2 50 Cal machine gun for anti-personel work, and a Mark 19 40mm grenade launcher installed. run the whole via reomte control, just beam back video and thermal imaging to the operator. This would give RPV a whole new meaning!
There's two kinds of big gun shooting direct fire and indirect fire. Direct fire is aim by the gunner, it's what tanks do aim at the target, add in a little super-elevation to correct for the rounds free fall in flight determined by the targets range, and some defection adjustment to adjust for the round going off course from the wind and let'er rock and roll. In direct fire you want first round kills because when you fire, everybody knows where to shoot back at.
Indirect fire is what artillery does, the round goes through a high ballistic trajectory, but you want the round to travel in as low a trajectory as possible; the higher the round travels, the more likely that it will be picked up by a counter-mortar radar which can calculate the point of origin so the opposing force can shoot back at you. the FO, Forward Observer see's the traget, and tells the FDC, Fire Direction Computer, the approximate grid co-ordinates of the traget, his direction to the target, and what the target is. The FDC then calculates what direction to point the guns in, what elevation to point at, and what charge to use, how much powder. the guns then aim at a two stakes in the ground and fires, usualy one round from the number two gun in the center. If the round hits with-in the burst-radious of the target, then all the guns fire, if not the FO tells the FDC how many meters to left or right, or to add or subtract, the FDC re-computes and 2 gun re-shoots. as soon as the target is hit the unit moves, and re-sets up. This is called shoot and scoot, because if you're still there, the other guys are going to reach out and touch you if they can.
The biggest problem with only giving 60% effort for 60% fee is sooner or later you get to used to 60% effort. Personaly I have good days and bad day so output naturaly varies, but I always do the best I can with the resorces available so I never have trouble looking in the mirror.
not to mention that you're not a team player and will be blamed for being right.
When I re-did my mortgage a little while ago, all of the desktop machine monitors were displaying a WinCE logo in screensaver mode. I don't know if these were real PC's or some kind of network computer. I thought it strange, but being basicaly a Linux guy, I wasn't sure how strange; but I bet the liesencing fees for WinCE is a lot less than for WinXP.
actualy the Army uses tritium to make wrist watches luminus in the dark, as do some civilian watch makers.
actualy the Iranian hate us becoame we supported a tyranical monachial based dictator, the Shaw of Iran, because he let us set up listening posts to keep tabs on what the Soviet Union, a country that once threatened to bury us. Well it's more complicated than that but it's a good nutshell version.
thanks for the links to such highly credable sources especialy greenpeace after they chastised Saddam Hussien for such activities as
draining the swamplands in southern Iraq, and burning oil wells and igniting trenches filled with crude oil outside Bagdad, killing vast numbers wild life by dropping Nitrogen Mustard into the swamps near the Iran-Iraq border and turning the rivers into little more than open sewers
based on one post, which contains no evidence...we're supposed to believe that Global Warming is such a big deal?
well yes on one hand you have groups of educated people, with a vested interest in maintaining their scientific credibility, from multiple countries saying the evidence says definately we can't be sure, and that the dataset is definatly biassed due to a transient phenomina as the baseline.
And on the other hand you have an arguement that well chicken little could be right. And it realy might be a big deal because it feels like a big deal and of course they believe it's a big deal.
from 50m up you can't even see my city, just trees as far as the eye can see, that's not even the forest it's the city, we very literaly have more trees per surface area in a typical mid-west american city than some european forrests. European cities are typicaly house, sidewalk, street with little or no green area.
American lumber companies plant two trees for every tree harvested, and it's now unusual to see them doing some very advanced forrest management. In south America slash and burn then adbandon the area after the jungle soil turns to rock and move on. And how many times have we seen an African farmer trying to raise 20 head of cattle on a peice of range that might support one healthy cow?
Then I try not to throw a cemment block through the TV everytime I see Captian Planet.
Actualy they rework a lot of stuff routinely just to make sure that if anything interesting is reported its verified and not due to a glitch like a bad write to the disk or a currpted packet and stuff. If Linux machines found something and windows didn't it might represent a port problem that would need to be looked into. Also if a WU isn't recieved back after a while it re-sent to another user so two people may return the same wu results naturaly. If you're using seti@home in screensaver only mode on a 75Mhz Pentium it can take quite a while to complete.
The credit system isn't realy robust like it would have to be say if they were paying for the work done, so they are pretty leinient about credits for doing the work, but very strict about results
Even though there was never any official encryption to begin with (and those who analyzed the CSS code probably consider it as minimal),
IANAL but seriously what's encryption legaly? We know that somethings definataly aren't and somethings definatesly are and there is a lot gray in the middle. You maybe right pulse code modulation might count, but I hope not.
Wasn't Celine Deion one of the first name pop artist to have had a un-cd published? At the time I predicted that her career was effectively over and now she doing Vegas, damn I hate it when I'm right.
The only thing the radio station neeeds is a sales staff and one or two local news announcers and they're probably loaners from sales, everything else is leased engineer/station tech support, music, dj, weather and anything else. Radio is now reduced to the lowest common denominator, sales-droids
Man no wonder they didn't post your submissions your saying that for the price of about 3 Cds a month.
1. You get a liciense to broadcast music and very probably the ability to download as much music as you want legaly
2. you get about 50 CD's a month in the mail
If that were true then everybody would want a radio station of there own! even if the only one listening were themselves.