If Iraq was not a threat to the US, who gave the US authority to decide unilaterally which people should be "liberated" at the expense of the "liberated people"?
What moral or legal authority does the US have to decide if a goverment in a sovereign country should stay or go?
The US has no mandate to liberate anybody, the only justification to attack another country is if yours is under genuine threat or if the UN decides that invasion is the only way to stop genocide. Sorry to break it to you but Hussein stop commiting genocide after the first Gulf war, after that he was just another dictator.
That is why it matters if WMDs are found or not. But sadly it seems like the US populace has gotten used to be lied to and will not care about the integrity of their elected representatives.
It is great that you came wuth that museum idea, I propose that you become the first exhibit there.
NK has tested missiles that could threaten any country in South Asia, they have a big and well trained army, perhaps as brainwashed as the Taliban (this people love their leaders, the incentive is to avoid torture and certain death, but who knows. In most dictatorships there are signs of a resistence movement, at least some Graffiti or clandestine literature. In NK theres is nothing, zero, zilch, nada), one of the few hard cash earners for this country is warfare technology, specially in the medium range missile field.
Also notice that the experts are concerned (in this site you can find names of the NK nuclear reactors and their capacity).
So do you want a glass box or a proper cage in the museum?
The teacher of course gave us reference material (books, magazines) which I would consult as required (in the library, books were mighty expensive for my budget).
A computer is a distraction. PDA ditto. YOu are not suppossed to transcribe all what the teacher says, you are suppossed to understand what is the topic and then go and study it yourself.
Do yourself a favour and don't waste your monies in electronic toys. Nowadays you may need a desktop to produce reports and to acces the internet for research purposes, but other than that computers and PDAs are a sonsumerist distraction for college students.
OSes are becoming a comodity, they will not ve sold to the general user (specially once Linux and other FLOSS OSes triumph) but will be available for anybody to install them and then add up products and services on top.
Not joking, non techies I know did not buy it for that only reason. They are tired of fighting agains MS software and the prospect of yet more nightmares put them off even trying these things.
.... don't need to cuddle in the coach to write. They sit on their desks, normally at predetermined hours of the day, and write. That is they work and most people don't do their work on their pajamas in the couch.
If you are a programmer, then maybe you have got a point. More lazy code (literelly) could then be coming our way.
In the countryside producing gas from animal (and human) manure.
Using low consumption electrical appliances.
Damns are discredited, at least in the scale of this monstruosity. Small damns could be a solution. This has pharaonic or dynastic ambitions, not the people's interests at heart (i.e. the COmmunist aparatchik trying to show something to the people to convince them that they are doing something for them)....
... because if he would be considered as an actor he was clearly overacting, if the character would be consdiered animation (in my book he was just a high tech puppeteer) then he would not be elegible.
And as a foreigner I am glad the UK police enforces the laws.
From the country I come from the slippery slope began like that ( oh, it is just 5 Km over the limit, it is midnight , nobody will notice). Little by little more and more people found more excuses, last time I was home the red lights seem to be mere indicators of how dangerous the traffic is in that moment, but many don't stop anymore.
Limits are limits, if you are 1 mile over it you are breaking the law and you should be punished, end of the history.
MS and AOL gained a small competitive advantage attributable to many factors, none of which was necessarily ease of use. MacOS was millions of times easier to use than Windows 3.x. A true grandma OS if there ever was one. We know what happened.
To explain the debacle of the IT industry in favour of the less good technically speaking we have to move to the realms of marketing where a lie repeated enough times, well, you know the rest.
... may not be a measure of intelligence (although lack of it normally points out to cognitive problems of some kind or another).
The problem is that politicians must be able to communicate effectively with others.
The horrible thing about Mr Bush evident lack of verbal dexterity is that the US public is more than happy to support somebody that can't offer more than small soundbites and who cant put forward an idea coherently.
Do you want this kind of person leading your country? Ovbiously most US people do, specially now after he fullfilled the cowboy fantasy in a global scale, but that says loads more about the state of US politics than about sorry Mr Bush hiself.
I don't want to rain in your parade, I just need to point out that the first step to achieve improvement in any field is to recognize the problems and obstacles one faces.
The rest of the world is using it, your units are defined in function of it, but you still have the face to claim that people advocating the metric system (only to you, stubborn USians in order to facilitate commerece, etc) don't have enough pull.
That US parallel universe in which many USians live is absolutely detached from reality.
There is not a single Socialist European country, in all of the EU the free movement and comercialization of goods and Labour is assured as well as is private property.
If I was a company/country using a global positioning system of any kind, I would love to know that I have alternatives if the system I am using fails, is turned off or degrades for wahatever reasons.
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If Iraq was not a threat to the US, who gave the US authority to decide unilaterally which people should be "liberated" at the expense of the "liberated people"?
What moral or legal authority does the US have to decide if a goverment in a sovereign country should stay or go?
The US has no mandate to liberate anybody, the only justification to attack another country is if yours is under genuine threat or if the UN decides that invasion is the only way to stop genocide. Sorry to break it to you but Hussein stop commiting genocide after the first Gulf war, after that he was just another dictator.
That is why it matters if WMDs are found or not. But sadly it seems like the US populace has gotten used to be lied to and will not care about the integrity of their elected representatives.
.... have a persecution complex.
Some of them (around 99%) can't understand that disagreements about one thing with them does not mean hate or automatic bashing.
Go to the International Atomic Energy Agaency's website and look around.
It is great that you came wuth that museum idea, I propose that you become the first exhibit there.
NK has tested missiles that could threaten any country in South Asia, they have a big and well trained army, perhaps as brainwashed as the Taliban (this people love their leaders, the incentive is to avoid torture and certain death, but who knows. In most dictatorships there are signs of a resistence movement, at least some Graffiti or clandestine literature. In NK theres is nothing, zero, zilch, nada), one of the few hard cash earners for this country is warfare technology, specially in the medium range missile field.
Also notice that the experts are concerned (in this site you can find names of the NK nuclear reactors and their capacity).
So do you want a glass box or a proper cage in the museum?
No nerd^H^H^H^H geek will ever accept that hot is a very relative term, specially if one is overccoking it.
The teacher of course gave us reference material (books, magazines) which I would consult as required (in the library, books were mighty expensive for my budget).
A computer is a distraction. PDA ditto. YOu are not suppossed to transcribe all what the teacher says, you are suppossed to understand what is the topic and then go and study it yourself.
Do yourself a favour and don't waste your monies in electronic toys. Nowadays you may need a desktop to produce reports and to acces the internet for research purposes, but other than that computers and PDAs are a sonsumerist distraction for college students.
OSes are becoming a comodity, they will not ve sold to the general user (specially once Linux and other FLOSS OSes triumph) but will be available for anybody to install them and then add up products and services on top.
This BeOS clone is swimming against the current.
Thanks but no thanks.
Not joking, non techies I know did not buy it for that only reason. They are tired of fighting agains MS software and the prospect of yet more nightmares put them off even trying these things.
.... don't need to cuddle in the coach to write. They sit on their desks, normally at predetermined hours of the day, and write. That is they work and most people don't do their work on their pajamas in the couch.
If you are a programmer, then maybe you have got a point. More lazy code (literelly) could then be coming our way.
1000 as an student?
Either your dady is mighty generous or you live in a parallel universe were students can spend 1000 like nothing.
The smallest memory media now a days is 64MB. In a couple of years time it will be 512MB or 1GB,
FAT fragments badly and wastes too much space.
Use solar power for heating.
In the countryside producing gas from animal (and human) manure.
Using low consumption electrical appliances.
Damns are discredited, at least in the scale of this monstruosity. Small damns could be a solution. This has pharaonic or dynastic ambitions, not the people's interests at heart (i.e. the COmmunist aparatchik trying to show something to the people to convince them that they are doing something for them)....
Where did you get that?
... because if he would be considered as an actor he was clearly overacting, if the character would be consdiered animation (in my book he was just a high tech puppeteer) then he would not be elegible.
And as a foreigner I am glad the UK police enforces the laws.
From the country I come from the slippery slope began like that ( oh, it is just 5 Km over the limit, it is midnight , nobody will notice). Little by little more and more people found more excuses, last time I was home the red lights seem to be mere indicators of how dangerous the traffic is in that moment, but many don't stop anymore.
Limits are limits, if you are 1 mile over it you are breaking the law and you should be punished, end of the history.
You know zilch about usability Mr Nobody.
Why o why... I should just do as my signature says, but sometimes it is too much to bare.
MS and AOL gained a small competitive advantage attributable to many factors, none of which was necessarily ease of use. MacOS was millions of times easier to use than Windows 3.x. A true grandma OS if there ever was one. We know what happened.
To explain the debacle of the IT industry in favour of the less good technically speaking we have to move to the realms of marketing where a lie repeated enough times, well, you know the rest.
... may not be a measure of intelligence (although lack of it normally points out to cognitive problems of some kind or another).
The problem is that politicians must be able to communicate effectively with others.
The horrible thing about Mr Bush evident lack of verbal dexterity is that the US public is more than happy to support somebody that can't offer more than small soundbites and who cant put forward an idea coherently.
Do you want this kind of person leading your country? Ovbiously most US people do, specially now after he fullfilled the cowboy fantasy in a global scale, but that says loads more about the state of US politics than about sorry Mr Bush hiself.
What is India's GDP?
How many people live in abject poverty?
How many die of preventable diseases?
Access to clean water?
What is your definition of sizeable?
Etc.
I don't want to rain in your parade, I just need to point out that the first step to achieve improvement in any field is to recognize the problems and obstacles one faces.
.... is not what you use to iron your shirts.
Oh yes, and I believe Buthan is a fundamentalist Budhist country, like if that made thinks better.
The rest of the world is using it, your units are defined in function of it, but you still have the face to claim that people advocating the metric system (only to you, stubborn USians in order to facilitate commerece, etc) don't have enough pull.
That US parallel universe in which many USians live is absolutely detached from reality.
An European that belives dependency is a desirable thing to pursue.
There is not a single Socialist European country, in all of the EU the free movement and comercialization of goods and Labour is assured as well as is private property.
Sorry to bust your prejudice bubble buddy.
GPS was put there by this company er.. its name escapes me... er .. I will remember it... er....
If I was a company/country using a global positioning system of any kind, I would love to know that I have alternatives if the system I am using fails, is turned off or degrades for wahatever reasons.