Well, if you read the article, the Basel Convention says:
"Convinced that States should take necessary measures to ensure that the management of hazardous wastes and other wastes including their transboundary movement and disposal is consistent with the protection of human health and the environment whatever the place of disposal."
So it seems that the convention exists, but the US is flatly rejecting accepting it. But I imagine that came as no shock to anyone, as it's not benefitting the US in any way whatsoever, and so is not important. How many times do we need to see the US exploiting the needs of other countries to save a few bucks before we demand that it stops? The US can't run around the world, butting in to conflicts and acting like some sort of benevolent super-sentient being, when during its time off from being a global-cop it likes to dump mercury in Asia. That's just hypocrisy like we've never seen before. USA! USA!
Well, Bush flatly shat on the Kyoto agreement because it wasn't financially kind to the US, so I imagine the chances of him giving a rats ass about this are slim to none. Actually, none.
Way off the mark. They're releasing sterilised flies. These flies will attract the mating attention of the other flies, and they'll waste the other flies genetic material, which might otherwise have been passed on to a fertile fly.
That's all. If they don't shag anything, then they'll be dead in a while. If a couple *are* still fertile, then they've released a couple of flies into africa. big deal.:)
And there are the lives of the entire crew on board the plane. Ask the families of the crew if they'd rather the taxpayer saves some money, or have their families safer.
I think the gunships are used because they look cool and make people want to join the US armed forces. Good thing, 'cos they'll take just about anyone;)
Anyway, back to the topic at hand, I'm sure they could create a power source for the laser. The cooling might be a problem, though.
Homophobic. And I thought you were educated. Poor guy.
No-one in this world wants the US to step in to their disputes. The US very rarely ever contributes anything positive to the rest of the world. No-one in the world is scared of the US. With your current leadership, I think the chance of the US nuking itself is more than it nuking anywhere else.
The Americans have a terrible history of running into a conflict, getting seven shades of shit knocked out of them, then using everything in their power to win a PR war by making lots of big explosions for the Americans at home to watch on their big-screen projection TVs, between Bud ads.
Oh, and by the way - I'm not morally bankrupt, I just don't want some redneck with an IQ of 25 flying a plane overhead that's stocked with weapons. If it was any other NATO force up there, I'd feel a lot safer. You see, the rest of us in NATO actually have entry requirements for our armed forces, not like the US Marines or something.
So even if you did hit the chinese embassy on purpose, what about all those friendly fire accidents between US forces and others? Surely those aren't warnings when the F16 pilots dropped ordnance on some observers... Surely it wasn't a warning when the US killed more allied soldiers in the Gulf war than the Iraqis. (Did you know that only 10% of the Americans who died in Kabul actually died from enemy gunfire? USA! USA! USA!)
As your dearest declaration of independence states, "All men are created equal", so my opinion counts as much as yours. If you say mine is worthless, you've nullified your own by your own love for your country. The irony.
And I bet you don't even know who 617-squadron are. You should try reading books sometime.
"How does it feel to be irrelevant to history?" - I was gonna ask you the same thing.
I don't want you being my policeman, sunshine. If you want to send your poorly trained troops into Africa and watch them get systematically destroyed by irregulars on technos, then be my guest. I'll just wait for someone else to clean up afterwards;)
Seeing as the Americans have a terrible history when it comes to target acquisition and targetting, even with 'smart' bombs which were meant to be fool-proof, only striking down the enemy (not Chinese Embassy). I think the last thing I'd like to see is a plane full of Americans with a laser or two strapped on to the side. I think the Americans should prove themselves with real, wartime bombing accuracy and weapon utilisation, 617-style, before they are given any more deadly toys. I for one don't want to take the risk.
Why do the BBC want more people tuning in? This is the BBC we're talking about - not NPR. The BBC has no commercials on any of its channels (TV and radio): no commercials = no need to draw people in.
What the BBC are doing is called "offering a service". It's still practiced here in the UK, even if it has been replaced by "cover something in commercials and get it to as many people as possible" in the US;)
Why do people even bother doing stuff like that? If he detests Microsoft like most of the Linux zealots in here, there are more proactive methods of trying to get the word out - not just trying to be clever and fudging some headers that make it not render in Outlook. It's just plain pathetic. And as for making WebTV users' displays black-on-black when viewing his emails, that's just being childish.
I really don't care what the guy has to say for himself - so I don't mind if my outlook doesn't show his messages. It's not like I'll be missing anything constructive.
Why pay more for Intel? Because Intel chips are made to a higher specification than AMD chips (see that video where they took the heatsinks off an Athlon, a P3 and a P4? Guess which one actually burst into flames.).
Go buy AMD if you don't have the cash for a CPU that'll actually survive if the heatsink falls off, or if a fan fails.
It's your funeral. And if the heatsink falls off, quite literally.
It would be weird if it was actually written by Nostradamus. It's actually interesting because someone wrote that in an article about how anyone can make 'predictions'. Unfortunately, he was right.
So if I want a PDA I should go get a Palm that looks (and runs) like a calculator? I'd rather get an iPAQ with 64megs of ram and a 4k colour screen.
I can't imagine using a Linux PDA is any better than a Windows one - the WinCE ones are very fast, *and* use the same software as the desktop PC.
Outlook is much more than an email client. I guess most Linux people don't realise that. It has can share data between groups of people in an office/company automatically, offers collective diaries and to-do lists, automatically tells people when other people are out of the office, the list goes on. I'd like to see a Linux PDA do all that out of the box. in colour. while playing a video. over a wireless lan.
'wince'? 'M$'? Grow up. You're not winning anyone over to your way of thinking if you're going to stoop to childish name-calling. You're just embarassing yourself.
But it is perfectly integrated with windows. The PDA talks to the app directly, without needing some third-party software, so it works much better. Your Palm doesn't talk to outlook, it talks to some guy's software which then talks to outlook. That's not integrated, that's emulated.
So you're not willing to give children the knowledge of experience that their parents/seniors have? How do you expect children to learn about the law? Rob a bank to learn about armed robbery laws? Run over you to learn about dangerous driving laws? The children are living in our society. Our society has rules/laws to stop people ruining the society for everyone else. If you don't tell the children what's not acceptable in their society, then there's going to be a lot of children getting into trouble.
Would you want your children to learn about narcotics by smoking crack, or reading a book at school?
Everyone says indoctrination is bad, whereas we've all been indoctrinated. When we're told as children about 'right' and 'wrong', basics of the law (ie don't jaywalk) - this is all indoctrination. If this helps people realise that mp3-dealing is illegal, then that's good. Whether they still keep doing it is up to them, and they then know what the consequences are, if they were to get caught.
Not meaning to be picky or start a fight or nuthin', but 'indoctrination is also quite Orwellian' - isn't indoctrination quite a wide-spread practice? Isn't saying it's orwellian being slightly emotive? It's a good idea to teach the perils of violating copyright law to kids. They teach the perils of selling drugs and drink-driving, why not another illegal activity? Whether it's morally right or wrong to share MP3s/photos, the fact is that it's still illegal. Kids should be taught that they don't own the rights to share the music.
Africa? I'm surprised you even know where it is, but it appears that you don't know much about what went on there. What we did was take a country of people living in huts, and we gave them jobs mining/farming/building. They could then use that money to buy stuff. When we left, they got what we left behind (Trains, hospitals, airfields, ports, houses etc). We didn't kill them all. The French did kill most of theirs, though.
Have you run out of ritalin or something? You've just proved what I said. If your definintion had said 'cross the entire country, from coast-to-coast' then I would have been wrong. And yes, it is convenient that I didn't look up 'cross country', as everyone was complaining about the 'cross' part, not the fact that it had anything to do with a country.
How does this site maintain even a shred of dignity with fools like you running around putting your feet in your mouths. English is a very useful tool if used properly.
Steam wastes too much energy. Think of all that steam and sound steam engines make - that's just a large version of what you propose. All that steam and noise is wasted energy, whereas photovoltaic-powered motors waste very little (pretty much silent in comparison, and you can store the energy you don't use, whereas steam engines require venting if they have too much steam)
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" Convinced that States should take necessary measures to ensure that the management of hazardous wastes and other wastes including their transboundary movement and disposal is consistent with the protection of human health and the environment whatever the place of disposal. "
So it seems that the convention exists, but the US is flatly rejecting accepting it. But I imagine that came as no shock to anyone, as it's not benefitting the US in any way whatsoever, and so is not important. How many times do we need to see the US exploiting the needs of other countries to save a few bucks before we demand that it stops? The US can't run around the world, butting in to conflicts and acting like some sort of benevolent super-sentient being, when during its time off from being a global-cop it likes to dump mercury in Asia. That's just hypocrisy like we've never seen before. USA! USA!
Well, Bush flatly shat on the Kyoto agreement because it wasn't financially kind to the US, so I imagine the chances of him giving a rats ass about this are slim to none. Actually, none.
The correct numbers, and incorrect spacing ;)
Way off the mark. They're releasing sterilised flies. These flies will attract the mating attention of the other flies, and they'll waste the other flies genetic material, which might otherwise have been passed on to a fertile fly.
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That's all. If they don't shag anything, then they'll be dead in a while. If a couple *are* still fertile, then they've released a couple of flies into africa. big deal.
Homophobic. You're not doing your country any good at all posting messages that make you look like such a redneck.
And there are the lives of the entire crew on board the plane. Ask the families of the crew if they'd rather the taxpayer saves some money, or have their families safer.
;)
I think the gunships are used because they look cool and make people want to join the US armed forces. Good thing, 'cos they'll take just about anyone
Anyway, back to the topic at hand, I'm sure they could create a power source for the laser. The cooling might be a problem, though.
Homophobic. And I thought you were educated. Poor guy.
No-one in this world wants the US to step in to their disputes. The US very rarely ever contributes anything positive to the rest of the world. No-one in the world is scared of the US. With your current leadership, I think the chance of the US nuking itself is more than it nuking anywhere else.
The Americans have a terrible history of running into a conflict, getting seven shades of shit knocked out of them, then using everything in their power to win a PR war by making lots of big explosions for the Americans at home to watch on their big-screen projection TVs, between Bud ads.
Oh, and by the way - I'm not morally bankrupt, I just don't want some redneck with an IQ of 25 flying a plane overhead that's stocked with weapons. If it was any other NATO force up there, I'd feel a lot safer. You see, the rest of us in NATO actually have entry requirements for our armed forces, not like the US Marines or something.
So even if you did hit the chinese embassy on purpose, what about all those friendly fire accidents between US forces and others? Surely those aren't warnings when the F16 pilots dropped ordnance on some observers... Surely it wasn't a warning when the US killed more allied soldiers in the Gulf war than the Iraqis. (Did you know that only 10% of the Americans who died in Kabul actually died from enemy gunfire? USA! USA! USA!)
As your dearest declaration of independence states, "All men are created equal", so my opinion counts as much as yours. If you say mine is worthless, you've nullified your own by your own love for your country. The irony.
And I bet you don't even know who 617-squadron are. You should try reading books sometime.
"How does it feel to be irrelevant to history?" - I was gonna ask you the same thing.
I don't want you being my policeman, sunshine. If you want to send your poorly trained troops into Africa and watch them get systematically destroyed by irregulars on technos, then be my guest. I'll just wait for someone else to clean up afterwards ;)
Seeing as the Americans have a terrible history when it comes to target acquisition and targetting, even with 'smart' bombs which were meant to be fool-proof, only striking down the enemy (not Chinese Embassy). I think the last thing I'd like to see is a plane full of Americans with a laser or two strapped on to the side. I think the Americans should prove themselves with real, wartime bombing accuracy and weapon utilisation, 617-style, before they are given any more deadly toys. I for one don't want to take the risk.
What the BBC are doing is called "offering a service". It's still practiced here in the UK, even if it has been replaced by "cover something in commercials and get it to as many people as possible" in the US ;)
Why start confusing people with this Ogg stuff? :)
I really don't care what the guy has to say for himself - so I don't mind if my outlook doesn't show his messages. It's not like I'll be missing anything constructive.
Go buy AMD if you don't have the cash for a CPU that'll actually survive if the heatsink falls off, or if a fan fails.
It's your funeral. And if the heatsink falls off, quite literally.
If we're going to be picky, it's where the sound of the next word starts with a vowel. :)
Nostradamus [nostradamus-repository.com] - the real deal.
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I can't imagine using a Linux PDA is any better than a Windows one - the WinCE ones are very fast, *and* use the same software as the desktop PC.
Outlook is much more than an email client. I guess most Linux people don't realise that. It has can share data between groups of people in an office/company automatically, offers collective diaries and to-do lists, automatically tells people when other people are out of the office, the list goes on. I'd like to see a Linux PDA do all that out of the box. in colour. while playing a video. over a wireless lan.
'wince'? 'M$'? Grow up. You're not winning anyone over to your way of thinking if you're going to stoop to childish name-calling. You're just embarassing yourself.
But it is perfectly integrated with windows. The PDA talks to the app directly, without needing some third-party software, so it works much better. Your Palm doesn't talk to outlook, it talks to some guy's software which then talks to outlook. That's not integrated, that's emulated.
Would you want your children to learn about narcotics by smoking crack, or reading a book at school?
Everyone says indoctrination is bad, whereas we've all been indoctrinated. When we're told as children about 'right' and 'wrong', basics of the law (ie don't jaywalk) - this is all indoctrination. If this helps people realise that mp3-dealing is illegal, then that's good. Whether they still keep doing it is up to them, and they then know what the consequences are, if they were to get caught.
Just my opinion.
Africa? I'm surprised you even know where it is, but it appears that you don't know much about what went on there. What we did was take a country of people living in huts, and we gave them jobs mining/farming/building. They could then use that money to buy stuff. When we left, they got what we left behind (Trains, hospitals, airfields, ports, houses etc). We didn't kill them all. The French did kill most of theirs, though.
How does this site maintain even a shred of dignity with fools like you running around putting your feet in your mouths. English is a very useful tool if used properly.
Such as administering artificialcheese.com? Thanks.
Steam wastes too much energy. Think of all that steam and sound steam engines make - that's just a large version of what you propose. All that steam and noise is wasted energy, whereas photovoltaic-powered motors waste very little (pretty much silent in comparison, and you can store the energy you don't use, whereas steam engines require venting if they have too much steam)