Well, there was the Gulf War, when Saddam invated Kuwait over oil territorialism. There's also his history of biological and chemical weapons, and his genocidal tendencies. His egging-on of anti-US sentiment and shooting missiles at US aircraft couldn't have hurt, either. So no, you're wrong when you say that there was no evidene of Saddam being more of a threat to anyone than, say, Saudi Arabia.
They do have the second-largest oil reserve in the world, and sure, that could prove helpful if they ever come over to our side. They're still a part of OPEC, though, and soon enough the US won't have leadership of the country. Besides, like I said before, I doubt the US would dare make any overt moves in the direction of their oil, with the world looking at them with a microscope. I wouldn't put it beyond some people, though.
As for how we put up with stuff like the Bush administration? That's what elections are for.
I suspect he fully expected the Iraqi people to welcome the American soldiers as liberators. They didn't anticipate the fierce nationalism they found when they arrived.
As for international will, it was probably arrogance, or a sense that this is important enough to go more-or-less unilaterally on. And Britain agreed.
If this was about oil, well, that would just be stupid. It's easy to guess (Middle East? Oil!), and it's easily trackable. It's not even an undercover, hard-to-understand conspiracy theory.
Besides, we get most of our oil from Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela, in that order.
Oh, come on, it's not about oil. I'm a liberal lefty, and even I don't believe that. It sounds more to me like a president who thought he had more world influence than he did, and thought Iraq would let him make a point.
Yeah, but they'd have to try to mate a standardized airlock module to Scaled's rocket, or develop and certify a new one. Plus a thoroughly-tested maneuvering system to make sure it didn't hit the Station.
Seems to me it'd be too much trouble for a busted spacesuit.
Well, I've never tried it, but from the Real website, Rhapsody looks like a pretty sweet deal. $10/month for unlimited user-programmable radio from a huge collection of music, plus 79c/song burning. If you buy a lot of music, that could work out to be cheaper than iTunes, and you get the radio, too.
I believe Bill's future wife Melinda oversaw the MS Bob project, which included the first assistant from MS (a talking dog). I guess this lived on through the Office paperclip years, then came back around to the talking dog in the WinXP search function.
I'm not so sure. Barring some sort of filtering scheme, it's just as easy to get to cnn.com as elboniaministryofpropaganda.elb. If you're in a village listening to loudspeaker broadcasts, all you hear is the latter.
Nah, it'll probably be you@jawtheshark.com. The fact that you want a voice-to-voice communication will get worked out in the protocol. Device independence, people, device independence.
Nah, I don't see it like that. I see it like a domain name or an email address. You, sir, are now somename@somenetwork.tld. The rest is just implementation details that can be worked out in the protocol.
Calling from a phone? It'll detect "voice communication requested" and connect you to the person's phone or to their currently-running instance of Netmeeting.
Sending a text message? It'll detect it as such and send it to wherever that person has indicated they want text messages to go.
Device independence and a single point of contact is the way of the future.
Argh, you're right, you're right, I have no right to complain about my feelings the last time I used GAIM on Windows.
I use Trillian Pro right now, but perhaps I'll take another look and see if I can't put something together that I like. Of course, I don't use Windows except to play games, so whatever.
This obviously flamebait, but he might have a small point.
Is there evidence that this was done with the intent of ousting third-party clients? Or was this an internal protocol change that happened to disable clients that weren't prepared?
Well, on Windows at least, Yahoo has superior video chat. It also has integrated Yahoo features, like mail and bookmarks.
Yahoo and IM are merged, which makes it very convenient to find people. You can search by profile, talk to people who are posting to your Yahoo Group, find people with the same interests, IM someone who just sent you an e-mail, etc.
Oh, and you can tell who's online through the web. Not to mention that you can send IMs with a simple web form if you want.
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Well, there was the Gulf War, when Saddam invated Kuwait over oil territorialism. There's also his history of biological and chemical weapons, and his genocidal tendencies. His egging-on of anti-US sentiment and shooting missiles at US aircraft couldn't have hurt, either. So no, you're wrong when you say that there was no evidene of Saddam being more of a threat to anyone than, say, Saudi Arabia.
They do have the second-largest oil reserve in the world, and sure, that could prove helpful if they ever come over to our side. They're still a part of OPEC, though, and soon enough the US won't have leadership of the country. Besides, like I said before, I doubt the US would dare make any overt moves in the direction of their oil, with the world looking at them with a microscope. I wouldn't put it beyond some people, though.
As for how we put up with stuff like the Bush administration? That's what elections are for.
Again, all that would have to get designed, tested, validated, and certified, and Scaled would have to be willing and able to put their time into it.
If you were going to go that route, why not use Orbital instead?
Or, just realize that all that isn't worth it for some spacesuits, and include them on the next Soyuz shipment.
Thanks. I don't deny my respect to people who haven't performed amazing world-changing feats.
I suspect he fully expected the Iraqi people to welcome the American soldiers as liberators. They didn't anticipate the fierce nationalism they found when they arrived.
As for international will, it was probably arrogance, or a sense that this is important enough to go more-or-less unilaterally on. And Britain agreed.
If this was about oil, well, that would just be stupid. It's easy to guess (Middle East? Oil!), and it's easily trackable. It's not even an undercover, hard-to-understand conspiracy theory.
Besides, we get most of our oil from Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela, in that order.
That doesn't remove the need for an attachment mechanism (airlock) and a maneuvering system.
I say anyone that goes through boot camp deserves my respect, if only for that. But do as you wish.
Oh, come on, it's not about oil. I'm a liberal lefty, and even I don't believe that. It sounds more to me like a president who thought he had more world influence than he did, and thought Iraq would let him make a point.
Yeah, but they'd have to try to mate a standardized airlock module to Scaled's rocket, or develop and certify a new one. Plus a thoroughly-tested maneuvering system to make sure it didn't hit the Station.
Seems to me it'd be too much trouble for a busted spacesuit.
Not sure if this is relevant, but Scaled doesn't deal with spacesuits. Mike didn't wear a suit during his trip, since SpaceShipOne is pressurized.
Well, the obvious solution wouldn't be jetpacks, it would be having two tethers instead of one. That seems like a pretty easy thing to do, anyway.
My guess is that the ISS is cramped as it is, so they put it on the outside to save space, figuring if it ever broke, an EVA would be worth it.
Maybe it had a fire risk, too.
The difference is that you can buy a mixed CD of only the songs that you want.
"Alphonse's Mix CD", with a combo of Britney and The Clash, if that's your bag.
Well, I've never tried it, but from the Real website, Rhapsody looks like a pretty sweet deal. $10/month for unlimited user-programmable radio from a huge collection of music, plus 79c/song burning. If you buy a lot of music, that could work out to be cheaper than iTunes, and you get the radio, too.
I believe Bill's future wife Melinda oversaw the MS Bob project, which included the first assistant from MS (a talking dog). I guess this lived on through the Office paperclip years, then came back around to the talking dog in the WinXP search function.
Well, there's a place in Starkville, MS called "Lube Doctor". Next door is "Muff Doctor".
I'm not so sure. Barring some sort of filtering scheme, it's just as easy to get to cnn.com as elboniaministryofpropaganda.elb. If you're in a village listening to loudspeaker broadcasts, all you hear is the latter.
Interesting. On a whim, I scrolled back the /. calendar 6 years: 1998-06-23.
The headlines were instantly familiar: Linux will rule the world! Star Wars! Oh, and Debian 2.0.
Check it out, it's pretty interesting.
Nah, it'll probably be you@jawtheshark.com. The fact that you want a voice-to-voice communication will get worked out in the protocol. Device independence, people, device independence.
Nah, I don't see it like that. I see it like a domain name or an email address. You, sir, are now somename@somenetwork.tld. The rest is just implementation details that can be worked out in the protocol.
Calling from a phone? It'll detect "voice communication requested" and connect you to the person's phone or to their currently-running instance of Netmeeting.
Sending a text message? It'll detect it as such and send it to wherever that person has indicated they want text messages to go.
Device independence and a single point of contact is the way of the future.
Argh, you're right, you're right, I have no right to complain about my feelings the last time I used GAIM on Windows.
I use Trillian Pro right now, but perhaps I'll take another look and see if I can't put something together that I like. Of course, I don't use Windows except to play games, so whatever.
I haven't used GAIM on Windows in a while, precisely because it didn't "feel" right. Maybe the icons were too big and bubbly for my sleek interface.
This obviously flamebait, but he might have a small point.
Is there evidence that this was done with the intent of ousting third-party clients? Or was this an internal protocol change that happened to disable clients that weren't prepared?
Well, on Windows at least, Yahoo has superior video chat. It also has integrated Yahoo features, like mail and bookmarks.
Yahoo and IM are merged, which makes it very convenient to find people. You can search by profile, talk to people who are posting to your Yahoo Group, find people with the same interests, IM someone who just sent you an e-mail, etc.
Oh, and you can tell who's online through the web. Not to mention that you can send IMs with a simple web form if you want.
GAIM on Windows sticks out like a sore thumb. It's very clear that it wasn't designed for that platform in mind.
Didn't they sponsor KDE?