The UN drafted a resolution to condemn the chemical attacks, the US (Reagan administration) blocked it. It never even got to a vote.
That's because the resolution drafted made scant mention of Iraq, and spend most of the time discussing Israel. The US then went on to support a resolution condemning Iraq and calling on them to observe the 1925 treaty.
Sure the libyans, russians chinese also helped him but we helped him more.
You are really lame. In that whole uneducated rant, you manage fail to actually provide substance. Heck, you don't even address the French and German Nuclear technical assistance, including the sale of EIMS and Gas Centrifuge technology by Karl Hienz Schaab that gave Iraq a leg up in uranium weaponization. Lets not forget the Tammuz reactor (aka Osiraq) which the French built for Iraq (and the Israeli's later bombed). The Russians were still selling him surplus jamming equipment as the war was impending. Speaking of hte soviets - the vast majority of the Iraqi inventory was made of soviet armor, soviet artillery pieces, soviety weaponry, and soviet aircraft. In fact, the only country which sold/gave Iraq more aircraft than Russia was France.
Your anti-American stupidity is stunning. Get an education, and stop believing everything your leftwit buddies tell you.
I can't believe this car didn't make the list. My 1989 had over 500 TSBs, including a design flaw which caused two major engine fires. Many of these cars also had the infamous faulty ignition cylinders. Then there's the infamous transmission. In 1991, the Ford Taurus with the 3.8L V-6 had the most complaints filed with the NHTSA than any other car. Even SHO owners were not immune to poorly designed suspensions and fuel systems, though that engine and transmission were quite reliable considering it's high performance level - but then it was made by Yamaha. Even as late as 2000, there were problems - one friend of mine had to have the entire main wiring harness replaced after a series of malfunctions revealed the car was one of thousands that were miswired.
I remember when Ford used to claim "Quality is Job #1". Good thing they dropped that slogan. I will never never never buy a Ford car, nor any of these jived-up yuppied trucks they sell. Give me a good ol' bare bones Chevy F-1/2/350 anyday.
The problems with emissions were understated - at the time of the RX-2, nobody really gave a shit about emissions except some nuts in california. What did the RX-2 in was low-end performance. Rotaries stink for torque in the sub 5k rpm range. Mazda finally introduced turbo on the RX-6 and more popularly on the RX-7. Poor sales killed the 7 in the 90's, but Mazda kept doing research and we have the RX-8 which is a damn fine engine, and clean to boot. The problem is the stigma of needing turbo is hurting sales, and Mazda is still waiting to introduce a RX-8 Twin Turbo.till this summer.
Yeah, over 30 million arabs free from oppression, defining their own constitution for the first time, and experiencing democracy and free enterprise. Whooh, too bad someone didn't stop that shit. Without the Taliban and Saddam killing those sand niggers, we'll be overrun with college-educated arabs in no time.
I don't recall the rest of the world having a problem with him either. Lets see, the French, Russians, Chinese, Germans, and Libyans, Czechs, Swedes, and Japanese all sold Saddam Hussein military and technical hardware over the past thirty years, but oh yes...it's the US that "kept" him in power. Just get your braindead tattoo on your forehead and save us all the trouble of disecting your logic.
...somewhere I have a picture of Dubya staring at a Dell laptop while seated on Air Force One. Most of the time he's got papers in his hand though. Decision makers tend to prefer hard copies, stacks of paper, et al.
The only way Dean could beat Bush is with a baseball bat, and then only on the occasion that every secret service agent suddenly drops dead (you'll be able to tell because their expression will change).
...isn't running an old as MacOS 9 desktop. He's the President - the most powerful man on the planet, leader of the greatest nation on earth. He can at least spring for OS X.
Wakeup call guys, linux is still too hard to use. If it takes a professional like me several minutes to track down a problem, you can be guaranteed that a novice user will last only as long as his initial install is stable - and how many installs are initially stable - before he/she migrates back to Windows.
But then, negative weight ought to yield a negative number for energy when factored, so technically HE3 would have athousand times less...
The point is, unlike at slashdot, most people don't realize that "pound" is relative to gravity on earth in a large vacuum chamber. People who report this shit ought to use the kilogram instead. But then, my country is too concerned about bashing it's president and trying to get bigger pork-barrel patronage social-spending systems in place to care about SI.
...having not eaten in two days, you're out of water, you're closest "coworker" is bleeding while the next closest coworker is trying to explain to someone over a radio what is going on. And what is going on? People are trying to kill you - people who aren't even from the country whose cold icy mud is slowly working its way up your asscrack - are trying to kill you so they can establish a fundamentalist dictatorship in the country whose secular dictatorship you've just toppled. And back home, people are saying that you're doing this for nothing, and it won't make your country safer.
It's funny how every article posted by michael - no matter who it is attributed to - has the same blithe anti-capitalist anti-american slant. I am so sick of seeing slashdot turned into leftdot, why can't michael take his TROLLING behavior somewhere it's appreciated - like kuro5hin?
A commercial, such as on TV or Radio, partly or wholly pays for the content being broadcast. In many cases, it reduces or eliminates the cost to the consumer. THIS, however, is THEFT. They are useing resources on MY computer, and bandwidth that I pay a monthly reoccuring fee for, in order to feed me more intrusive forms of advertising. This is like getting a monthly bill for rabbit ears.
If you're a professional astronomer, then I weep for the field. Here is the definition of 'fundamental'. Here is the definition of flaw. Here is a NASA newsletter talking about the corrective optics and using software to correct the flawed mirror.
So, to carry forth your moronic and logically flawed analogy, if you bought a car, and the engine didn't run very well because it was defective from the manufacturer, and you took it to a mechanic who wrapped the carbeurator with duck tape, and it ran better, then does it cease to be flawed? More to the point, would you keep that car, or would you insist the dealer replace it?
Hubble is flawed. it is antiquated. It is no longer worth the investment which could be better spent on a newer space telescope or network of telescopes.
Not only are you a troll, you're an arrogant and concieted troll.
Hey, genius...the Sims isn't real. It's a privatelyowned software construct. The constitution limits the powers of the GOVERNMENT. I know being a liberal, you don't recognize that government ends and private organizations begin, but here in reality such a demarcation exists.
...or is this a special case. You sit there and say "no Hubble is not fundamentally broken", then you write about the corrective optics that were fit to it to bring it up to 'essentially what it was intended to be'. It IS broken, it is patched, and it is not in fact what it was supposed to be.
Holy crap, it just keeps getting worse! Michael can't keep his irrational politics out of what is supposed to be a "news" story. If slashdot is that hard up for editors, I'll volunteer. Seems to me there's plenty of good stuff going into the queue that michael doesn't need to dig up and mischaracterize issues just to get his own two cents in sideways.
News for nerds indeed. News for uptight leftist wannabes.
I suppose its analogue would be mandatory drug tests in sports.
Look up analogous in the dictionary sometime. Drug testing in sports has several functions related to liability. If an athelete is found using drugs, it reflects badly on the team, reducing their fanbase loyalty and negatively impacting revenue from licensed goods. If the athlete is injured because of impaired judgement due to drug abuse, the team loses a player, and their insurance costs go up.
University policies against plagiarism are based on moral grounds, and have little to nothing to do with economics. However, having a third party service do the job is a matter of economics. The service profits from verifying a students work, and their profit is directly linked to the students efforts. Moreover, the service is contracted by the University, which means the student is having to pay for this service as part of their tuition. The issue here is that faculty are outsourcing their academic responsibilities at the expense of the students, and failing to encourage integrity in their students. It is not that difficult to verify plagiarism. All you do is require a student to turn in copies of all their sources, and to utilize peer review to verify sources.
Once again, michael goes on to approve an article submission based in part on the two-bit opinionations of himself and/or the submittor.
Remember that Hubble is fundamentally broken, and it's main mirror is patched. In the decade+ since it's launch, we have come up with better and bolder technologies for deep space imaging, and it's time that the money spent on maintaining the unreliable Hubble be spent on Hubble II, or a dark-side-of-the-moon observatory. There are half a dozen proposals for a better telescope or system of telescopes orbiting earth, the moon, or the sun itself.
The disintegration of the fuel would actuall accelerate exposure, atomizing the molecules finely. The real question is there any real risk. BTW, we've already lost one plutoniom powered vehicle in flight.
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Lets see, what language do you speak. NOT GERMAN? You're welcome, fucktard.
That's because the resolution drafted made scant mention of Iraq, and spend most of the time discussing Israel. The US then went on to support a resolution condemning Iraq and calling on them to observe the 1925 treaty.
You are really lame. In that whole uneducated rant, you manage fail to actually provide substance. Heck, you don't even address the French and German Nuclear technical assistance, including the sale of EIMS and Gas Centrifuge technology by Karl Hienz Schaab that gave Iraq a leg up in uranium weaponization. Lets not forget the Tammuz reactor (aka Osiraq) which the French built for Iraq (and the Israeli's later bombed). The Russians were still selling him surplus jamming equipment as the war was impending. Speaking of hte soviets - the vast majority of the Iraqi inventory was made of soviet armor, soviet artillery pieces, soviety weaponry, and soviet aircraft. In fact, the only country which sold/gave Iraq more aircraft than Russia was France.
Your anti-American stupidity is stunning. Get an education, and stop believing everything your leftwit buddies tell you.
I can't believe this car didn't make the list. My 1989 had over 500 TSBs, including a design flaw which caused two major engine fires. Many of these cars also had the infamous faulty ignition cylinders. Then there's the infamous transmission. In 1991, the Ford Taurus with the 3.8L V-6 had the most complaints filed with the NHTSA than any other car. Even SHO owners were not immune to poorly designed suspensions and fuel systems, though that engine and transmission were quite reliable considering it's high performance level - but then it was made by Yamaha. Even as late as 2000, there were problems - one friend of mine had to have the entire main wiring harness replaced after a series of malfunctions revealed the car was one of thousands that were miswired.
I remember when Ford used to claim "Quality is Job #1". Good thing they dropped that slogan. I will never never never buy a Ford car, nor any of these jived-up yuppied trucks they sell. Give me a good ol' bare bones Chevy F-1/2/350 anyday.
The problems with emissions were understated - at the time of the RX-2, nobody really gave a shit about emissions except some nuts in california. What did the RX-2 in was low-end performance. Rotaries stink for torque in the sub 5k rpm range. Mazda finally introduced turbo on the RX-6 and more popularly on the RX-7. Poor sales killed the 7 in the 90's, but Mazda kept doing research and we have the RX-8 which is a damn fine engine, and clean to boot. The problem is the stigma of needing turbo is hurting sales, and Mazda is still waiting to introduce a RX-8 Twin Turbo.till this summer.
Yeah, over 30 million arabs free from oppression, defining their own constitution for the first time, and experiencing democracy and free enterprise. Whooh, too bad someone didn't stop that shit. Without the Taliban and Saddam killing those sand niggers, we'll be overrun with college-educated arabs in no time.
I don't recall the rest of the world having a problem with him either. Lets see, the French, Russians, Chinese, Germans, and Libyans, Czechs, Swedes, and Japanese all sold Saddam Hussein military and technical hardware over the past thirty years, but oh yes...it's the US that "kept" him in power. Just get your braindead tattoo on your forehead and save us all the trouble of disecting your logic.
...somewhere I have a picture of Dubya staring at a Dell laptop while seated on Air Force One. Most of the time he's got papers in his hand though. Decision makers tend to prefer hard copies, stacks of paper, et al.
The only way Dean could beat Bush is with a baseball bat, and then only on the occasion that every secret service agent suddenly drops dead (you'll be able to tell because their expression will change).
...isn't running an old as MacOS 9 desktop. He's the President - the most powerful man on the planet, leader of the greatest nation on earth. He can at least spring for OS X.
Wakeup call guys, linux is still too hard to use. If it takes a professional like me several minutes to track down a problem, you can be guaranteed that a novice user will last only as long as his initial install is stable - and how many installs are initially stable - before he/she migrates back to Windows.
...he's just an idiot.
But then, negative weight ought to yield a negative number for energy when factored, so technically HE3 would have athousand times less...
The point is, unlike at slashdot, most people don't realize that "pound" is relative to gravity on earth in a large vacuum chamber. People who report this shit ought to use the kilogram instead. But then, my country is too concerned about bashing it's president and trying to get bigger pork-barrel patronage social-spending systems in place to care about SI.
The answer would be "no".
...having not eaten in two days, you're out of water, you're closest "coworker" is bleeding while the next closest coworker is trying to explain to someone over a radio what is going on. And what is going on? People are trying to kill you - people who aren't even from the country whose cold icy mud is slowly working its way up your asscrack - are trying to kill you so they can establish a fundamentalist dictatorship in the country whose secular dictatorship you've just toppled. And back home, people are saying that you're doing this for nothing, and it won't make your country safer.
Now quit your bitching and throttle up.
It's funny how every article posted by michael - no matter who it is attributed to - has the same blithe anti-capitalist anti-american slant. I am so sick of seeing slashdot turned into leftdot, why can't michael take his TROLLING behavior somewhere it's appreciated - like kuro5hin?
A commercial, such as on TV or Radio, partly or wholly pays for the content being broadcast. In many cases, it reduces or eliminates the cost to the consumer. THIS, however, is THEFT. They are useing resources on MY computer, and bandwidth that I pay a monthly reoccuring fee for, in order to feed me more intrusive forms of advertising. This is like getting a monthly bill for rabbit ears.
Plonk! The sound of a fool who starts and argument and realizes all to late he can't finish it.
If you're a professional astronomer, then I weep for the field. Here is the definition of 'fundamental'. Here is the definition of flaw. Here is a NASA newsletter talking about the corrective optics and using software to correct the flawed mirror.
So, to carry forth your moronic and logically flawed analogy, if you bought a car, and the engine didn't run very well because it was defective from the manufacturer, and you took it to a mechanic who wrapped the carbeurator with duck tape, and it ran better, then does it cease to be flawed? More to the point, would you keep that car, or would you insist the dealer replace it?
Hubble is flawed. it is antiquated. It is no longer worth the investment which could be better spent on a newer space telescope or network of telescopes.
Not only are you a troll, you're an arrogant and concieted troll.
Hey, genius...the Sims isn't real. It's a privatelyowned software construct. The constitution limits the powers of the GOVERNMENT. I know being a liberal, you don't recognize that government ends and private organizations begin, but here in reality such a demarcation exists.
...or is this a special case. You sit there and say "no Hubble is not fundamentally broken", then you write about the corrective optics that were fit to it to bring it up to 'essentially what it was intended to be'. It IS broken, it is patched, and it is not in fact what it was supposed to be.
Holy crap, it just keeps getting worse! Michael can't keep his irrational politics out of what is supposed to be a "news" story. If slashdot is that hard up for editors, I'll volunteer. Seems to me there's plenty of good stuff going into the queue that michael doesn't need to dig up and mischaracterize issues just to get his own two cents in sideways.
News for nerds indeed. News for uptight leftist wannabes.
Look up analogous in the dictionary sometime. Drug testing in sports has several functions related to liability. If an athelete is found using drugs, it reflects badly on the team, reducing their fanbase loyalty and negatively impacting revenue from licensed goods. If the athlete is injured because of impaired judgement due to drug abuse, the team loses a player, and their insurance costs go up.
University policies against plagiarism are based on moral grounds, and have little to nothing to do with economics. However, having a third party service do the job is a matter of economics. The service profits from verifying a students work, and their profit is directly linked to the students efforts. Moreover, the service is contracted by the University, which means the student is having to pay for this service as part of their tuition. The issue here is that faculty are outsourcing their academic responsibilities at the expense of the students, and failing to encourage integrity in their students. It is not that difficult to verify plagiarism. All you do is require a student to turn in copies of all their sources, and to utilize peer review to verify sources.
Once again, michael goes on to approve an article submission based in part on the two-bit opinionations of himself and/or the submittor.
Remember that Hubble is fundamentally broken, and it's main mirror is patched. In the decade+ since it's launch, we have come up with better and bolder technologies for deep space imaging, and it's time that the money spent on maintaining the unreliable Hubble be spent on Hubble II, or a dark-side-of-the-moon observatory. There are half a dozen proposals for a better telescope or system of telescopes orbiting earth, the moon, or the sun itself.
It'd be refreshing if he could keep his personal opinions the hell out of story submissions.
The disintegration of the fuel would actuall accelerate exposure, atomizing the molecules finely. The real question is there any real risk. BTW, we've already lost one plutoniom powered vehicle in flight.