By ratio, it is a slaughter. 2,290 American soldiers died in Iraq. Compared to:
Documented Iraqi civilian war fatalities:
115,713 [low end] - 126,337 [high end], mostly women and children. Unofficial war dead count: 350,000 http://www.iraqbodycount.org/
Oh, and just for the record, I *deeply* detested President Bush, both terms. I actively protested both the Afghanistan Slaughter and Iraqi Massacre, multiple times. I would spend every evening and weekend for months trying to get people aware of the WMD hoax and coming invasion, and how morally wrong it was.
I tried telling people about ECHELON since the 90s (when I was a teenager), I hosted LooseChange911.com for several months and gave Dylan some seed money back in the early 2000s when 90% of everyone believed in the official conspiracy theory of 19 Arab hijackers, many of whom were still alive (obviously never on the planes).
The last semi-OK president was Clinton, but then I'm pissed off about Ruby Ridge, the Branch Davidian Massacre, the OK City inside-job bombing, ECHELON, the World Trade Organization, the DMCA, the MPAA/RIAA AND the dot com bubble, all part and parcel of HIS Presidency.
Hell, I guess I have to go all the way back to Bush Sr., or maybe there hasn't been a good president in my entire life;-(
The point is, it's not about Democrats or Republicans. It's about Statism and Surveillance. The Pan-opticon.
I'm personally not upset that Obama won, the first time.
I am upset, however, with how he has out-Bushed Bush. And I am very saddened that the very people who majorly voted for him are significantly worse off in virtually every category after 4 years of his presidency decided to vote for him again. Not because their lives were better due to a stronger economy, more liberties, more rights, or anything like that.
No, they voted for him primarily because they were given more stuff belonging to others and told they deserved it ("entitlements") and because his skin color more closely matched their own. Or simply because they are totally brainwashed into always voting Democrat.
I mourn for the hundreds of thousands killed by Obama, Snowden, and all the other whistleblowers who have been demonized, exiled, or imprisoned / assassinated over the last 9 years.
Just use PolarisMail like me. 25 GB of space for $25 a year. It's the best deal I've found on the Internet, and George (the owner) is a top-notch developer and very helpful, too.
I use duckduckgo.com for easily 80% of my day to day searches; bing for 10% and only 10% do I have to resort to Google.
I have been using zoho.com for all my Google-Doc like stuff for ages. It's a LOT better, too! Their spreadsheet app is *years* ahead of Google Spreadsheet, if you ask me, particularly with expressions, graphs and data sorting / pivot tables.
You should use Srware Iron, a Chromium fork. It removes a LOT of the nastiness and annoyances from Chrome. I've been using it as my standard for years and ditched chrome completely since v29's fucked up New Tab Page.
And at the 2012 Electric Universe Conference in Las Vegas, I got to see a lecture by a renowned astrophysicist / astronomer who found a cluster of stars supposedly orbiting around a black hole at a phenomenal speed. In fact, when astronomers calculated the speed one of the stars was whipping around the supposed black hole, it came out to a staggering 2.5x the speed of light. It's photographic evidence over the course of many weeks that is very hard to debunk.
Now, if an entire star system can be flung into FTL speeds, i think that paints a pretty rosy picture for far less massive spacecraft, you know?
Every year I attend the Electric Universe conference, in January, where I listen to some of the greatest minds in leading edge science who weave a very convincing tale of how Electromagnetism is the dominant, by far, force in the Universe, and they have even made discoveries that virtually prove that the weak nuclear force is an epiphenomenon of electricity in the absolute micro scale (inside subatomic particles), and a LOT of compelling evidence that gravity is an emergent property of electrically charged bodies (e.g., bodies with electromagnetic fields, such as, you know, the Earth, Sun, etc., etc.). They call it Electric Gravity.
OH and I bet that in the 22nd Century, they'll teach that World War 3 started with the Twin Towers being knocked down and the subsequent invasion of Afghanistan -> Iraq -> Iran (unofficial) -> Pakistan -> Sudan -> Syria -> on and on around we go.
Nah, I still think there's PLENTY of time for a 3rd world war.
IN FACT, the cynical me says they haven't started it yet JUST so they can 1) make more weapons, 2) let more countries (*cough* Iran *cough* NKorea) develop even more nukes, and 3) draw even more countries into the fray.
I'm not nearly as good at cowtowing to an arbitrary far-lower-than-safe speed limit meant to bring in revenue for some random city I don't even live in than you, apparently.
I understand how women and old people could have evolutionary advantages for not (safely) pushing the envelope, but young men? Hmm...
You guys are all better at conforming to a fascist system than I am! Much better!
You're telling me you always plod along slower than the rest of traffic or are incredibly lucky? Never needed to be somewhere important enough that you had to book it 15 miles over to get there on time?
Can't say I would want to trade your life for mine. Sure I got problems, but I've also lived a little!
If you haven't had a single speeding ticket in 31 years, and you're a heterosexual male and drive more than *very* rarely, then you have issues and should see a doctor, possibly about testosterone boosting.
Slashdot Mirror
National Institute of Health? Hmm...
Wait! Aren't you born a homosexual?!
Are you saying that it is a *choice*?!
OMG! I can almost hear the liberal PC goon squad knocking on your door! Or is that a battering ram I'm hearing?
After a few generations, we'll sure find out, won't we?!
By ratio, it is a slaughter. 2,290 American soldiers died in Iraq. Compared to:
Documented Iraqi civilian war fatalities:
115,713 [low end] - 126,337 [high end], mostly women and children.
Unofficial war dead count: 350,000
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/
Estimated deaths caused by depleted uranium radiation poisoning from DU munitions: ~1,000,000.
http://www.rense.com/general64/du.htm
American soldiers who received lethal doses of radiation from DU munitions: 11,000 as of 2005 (possibly as high as 50,000 now). http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/du_death_toll.html
Oh, and just for the record, I *deeply* detested President Bush, both terms. I actively protested both the Afghanistan Slaughter and Iraqi Massacre, multiple times. I would spend every evening and weekend for months trying to get people aware of the WMD hoax and coming invasion, and how morally wrong it was.
I tried telling people about ECHELON since the 90s (when I was a teenager), I hosted LooseChange911.com for several months and gave Dylan some seed money back in the early 2000s when 90% of everyone believed in the official conspiracy theory of 19 Arab hijackers, many of whom were still alive (obviously never on the planes).
The last semi-OK president was Clinton, but then I'm pissed off about Ruby Ridge, the Branch Davidian Massacre, the OK City inside-job bombing, ECHELON, the World Trade Organization, the DMCA, the MPAA/RIAA AND the dot com bubble, all part and parcel of HIS Presidency.
Hell, I guess I have to go all the way back to Bush Sr., or maybe there hasn't been a good president in my entire life ;-(
The point is, it's not about Democrats or Republicans. It's about Statism and Surveillance. The Pan-opticon.
I'm personally not upset that Obama won, the first time.
I am upset, however, with how he has out-Bushed Bush. And I am very saddened that the very people who majorly voted for him are significantly worse off in virtually every category after 4 years of his presidency decided to vote for him again. Not because their lives were better due to a stronger economy, more liberties, more rights, or anything like that.
No, they voted for him primarily because they were given more stuff belonging to others and told they deserved it ("entitlements") and because his skin color more closely matched their own. Or simply because they are totally brainwashed into always voting Democrat.
I mourn for the hundreds of thousands killed by Obama, Snowden, and all the other whistleblowers who have been demonized, exiled, or imprisoned / assassinated over the last 9 years.
is **so** 1999!!
Wow! I just noticed it's gone! When was it removed???
I've got bad news for you!
You won't be able to watch **any** more Blockbusters after January 2014 ;-((
We're almost half way to 10, Chief.
Just use PolarisMail like me. 25 GB of space for $25 a year. It's the best deal I've found on the Internet, and George (the owner) is a top-notch developer and very helpful, too.
https://www.polarismail.com/Enhanced-E-mail-hosting-service/
HAHAHA!!! If only I had mod points! This doesn't deserve -1!! +5 Funny!
I use duckduckgo.com for easily 80% of my day to day searches; bing for 10% and only 10% do I have to resort to Google.
I have been using zoho.com for all my Google-Doc like stuff for ages. It's a LOT better, too! Their spreadsheet app is *years* ahead of Google Spreadsheet, if you ask me, particularly with expressions, graphs and data sorting / pivot tables.
I've been 100% SRware Iron since the stupid new tab page in Chrome 29. Been using Iron for years, tho.
If at first you can't compete?
Sue, sue again! (Perferably via patent lawsuits!)
You should use Srware Iron, a Chromium fork. It removes a LOT of the nastiness and annoyances from Chrome. I've been using it as my standard for years and ditched chrome completely since v29's fucked up New Tab Page.
Yep!
And at the 2012 Electric Universe Conference in Las Vegas, I got to see a lecture by a renowned astrophysicist / astronomer who found a cluster of stars supposedly orbiting around a black hole at a phenomenal speed. In fact, when astronomers calculated the speed one of the stars was whipping around the supposed black hole, it came out to a staggering 2.5x the speed of light. It's photographic evidence over the course of many weeks that is very hard to debunk.
Now, if an entire star system can be flung into FTL speeds, i think that paints a pretty rosy picture for far less massive spacecraft, you know?
People are way ahead of you.
Every year I attend the Electric Universe conference, in January, where I listen to some of the greatest minds in leading edge science who weave a very convincing tale of how Electromagnetism is the dominant, by far, force in the Universe, and they have even made discoveries that virtually prove that the weak nuclear force is an epiphenomenon of electricity in the absolute micro scale (inside subatomic particles), and a LOT of compelling evidence that gravity is an emergent property of electrically charged bodies (e.g., bodies with electromagnetic fields, such as, you know, the Earth, Sun, etc., etc.). They call it Electric Gravity.
Check it out: http://www.thunderbolts.info/
That already happened in 2005, no, seriously ;-(
OH and I bet that in the 22nd Century, they'll teach that World War 3 started with the Twin Towers being knocked down and the subsequent invasion of Afghanistan -> Iraq -> Iran (unofficial) -> Pakistan -> Sudan -> Syria -> on and on around we go.
Nah, I still think there's PLENTY of time for a 3rd world war.
IN FACT, the cynical me says they haven't started it yet JUST so they can 1) make more weapons, 2) let more countries (*cough* Iran *cough* NKorea) develop even more nukes, and 3) draw even more countries into the fray.
What pleasant surprises have you gotten during Obama's administration? Or heck, even Bush's?!
There. That's an almost-14 year period to choose from. List!
I'm not nearly as good at cowtowing to an arbitrary far-lower-than-safe speed limit meant to bring in revenue for some random city I don't even live in than you, apparently.
I understand how women and old people could have evolutionary advantages for not (safely) pushing the envelope, but young men? Hmm...
You guys are all better at conforming to a fascist system than I am! Much better!
You're telling me you always plod along slower than the rest of traffic or are incredibly lucky? Never needed to be somewhere important enough that you had to book it 15 miles over to get there on time?
Can't say I would want to trade your life for mine. Sure I got problems, but I've also lived a little!
If you haven't had a single speeding ticket in 31 years, and you're a heterosexual male and drive more than *very* rarely, then you have issues and should see a doctor, possibly about testosterone boosting.