You're probably just spending less time in the sun and not remembering it. One of the lines in the article mentioned that the sunny times are just as bright and warm as before; It 's the cloudy times that are darker....or I could be remembering it wrong.
I'm not a doctor, but I thing you've got yourself a serious case of Monday Morning Quarterback. You are giving the American administration FAR more credit than they are due.
Let me clear up what I meant when I said that 'the rest of the world'. I should have said 'the governemts of the rest of the world'.
In the debate before the UN, the argument agains force wasn't that the inspectors needed more time to prove that Iraq has disarmed, it was that the inspectors needed more time to disarm Iraq. The implicit assumption was that Iraq had not disarmed.
By all reports, the Iraqi government was meticulious when it came to record keeping. That they didn't have or wouldn't produce the records detailing the destruction of the ordinance is somewhat interesting.
Taken by itself it does not indicate that they did or did not destroy any weapons, but it an act that is out of character for the Iraqi government. When viewed against the backdrop of their obstruction and subversion of the inspection process it could be seen as an indication that they are hiding something.
There was data that showed that Iraq still had chemical weapons:
There was the pile of missing warheads that Iraq claimed to have destroyed, but refused to present documentation on.
There was the pile of missing material that could be used in the construction of chemical weapons.
There was testimony from defectors that they had worked on chemical weapons programs.
There was Iraq's histroy of deception and obstruction of UN inspectors.
Bearing just the above data in mind, it's easy to see how an otherwise intelligent person could draw the conclusion that the Iraqis were hiding a chemical weapons program. Once that conclusion was drawn, all other evidence was interpreted in such a way as to reinforce that conclusion.
Wow! those are some choice quotes! They kind of make the administrations look stupid.
But I'm not convinced this makes them liars. Dupes or Fools perhaps, but not liars. For them to be liars, they would have had to willfully and knowingly misrepresented the truth.
There is a difference between being wrong and lieing. The administration thought Iraq had chemical and biological weapons, so did the rest of the world. It appears they were all wrong.
I don't recall any administration ever saying that they knew where the weapons were stored. Back when this whole affair was being bandied about by the security councel I did a fair bit of reading on this topic. The closest this I can recall that was anything like you describe was some satelite intel phots that Sec. State Powel presented to the UN. Nothing that was said in relation to those photos approached willfull misrepresentation of facts.
note: The video requires an MSN Passport account (free)
When I saw that the first thing I thought was "Does it come with a free MSN Passport account cleaner to?"
Would it be considered ironic that a video that is (in essence) about identity theft would require you to submit personal information in order to view it?
I'm aware enough of international law to know that it's really just a collection of treaties and customs.
But I like to keep an open mind and welcome any opportunity to gain knowledge in this area. You seem like a reasonable fellow. Please enlighten me as to the articles of International Law that would be violated by destroying or jamming a GPS system owned and operated by an international non-governmental organization.
You implied that parents of 30 years ago knew the proper way to raise a child, and that parents today did not.
Now you say that you didn't say that (I must have misread you) Thats a good thing too, because if you had said that, you'd have been wrong. By enlarge, kids today are less likely to comit crimes, less likely to become pregnant, less likely to catch an STD, and more likely to be literate. (Apparently while all the unfit parents were neglecting their kids the kids used that time to have safe sex and study).
And yes, I generally try to go for funny when I see someone say something monumentally stupid. It keeps them from getting their feelings hurt. It doesn't always work. Like this time.
Sorry to have to cut this post short, all this typing is getting in the way of my hard drinking.
It's very simple. If you don't have time to raise them properly. DONT HAVE THEM.
So this is what passes for insight on slashdot these days.
pathetic.
Good thinkg I was born before 1973, that was 30 years ago. You know, back when folks knew the RIGHT way to raise a child. Good thing I wasn't born a few years later, or I'd have been FUCKED!
You'd think that the parent of kids born in 1974 would have raised some alarms. Perhaps because their kids were all in jail or out on crime sprees and the kids born the previous year were not. Maybe they didn't say anything because they're all bad parents.
KAY:Mike, you never told me you knew Johnny Fontane! MICHAEL: Sure... You wanna meet him? KAY:Huh? Oh, well, sure! MICHAEL:My father helped him with his career. JOHNNY: (OS)For my Connie... KAY:He did? How? JOHNNY: (OS, singing "I Have But One Heart")"I have but one heart..." MICHAEL:Let's listen to the song... KAY:Oh, Michael... CUT TO: Johnny singing to Connie, who's seated. Then PAN the crowd cheering and screaming as Johnny sings JOHNNY: (singing, continues)"...this heart I bring you / I have but one heart / To share with you / I have but one dream / That I can cling to / You are the one dream/I pray comes true..." KAY:Please, Michael, tell me. JOHNNY: (OS, continues the song)"My darling, until I saw you..." MICHAEL:Well, when Johnny was first starting out, he was signed to this personal service contract; with a big band leader. And as his career got better and better, he wanted to get out of it. Now, Johnny is my father's godson. And my father went to see this band leader, and he offered him $10,000 to let Johnny go. But the band leader said no. So the next day, my father went to see him; only this time with Luca Brasi. And within an hour, he signed a release, for a certified check for $1,000. KAY:How'd he do that? MICHAEL:My father made him an offer he couldn't refuse. KAY:What was that? MICHAEL:Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my father assured him that either his brains -- or his signature -- would be on the contract. (then) That's a true story. (then, after we see Johnny ending the song) That's my family, Kay. It's not me.
One suggestion I've heard that _could_ work is to deposit nucular waste at one of those places where one contineltal plate is sliding under another. A few hundred years,and the waste will be carried deep into the core of the earth.
There are a few problems with this: First, the Tectonic plates move a lot slower than you're giving them credit. Rather than a few hunderd years, you're mooking at a few hundred thousand years.
Secondly, the edges of the tectonic plates are more like likely to be areas of volcanic activity. It would suck to live downwind of that dump site when a volcano forced those pebbles back up to the surface.
For the purposes of this tax what exactly constitutes an email? Is it any communication on port 25? What if I use some other port? Would I get still taxed if I ftp'd a text file? What if the file were compressed. What about message board traffic? What about IRC? What about Instant Messenger? What if I mail someone a floppy with messages on it?
What happens with email from outside of the taxing jurisdiction? Does the receiver pay? (That would be cool. I could just 'drive' across the border and mail bomb people I don't like. POW! right in the checkbook!)
It was fun to hear the whistling across the office as one person after another clicked on the link to the mp3 of the language.
I heard it from up the aisle and went to investigate. It was coming from a guy's headphones, and he was wearing them. They guy that was wearing the headphones didn't even think he had the volume up particularly loud. The guy across from him said he could hear it over the music he was listening to.
I greatly desire to see an English text to Silbo translation engine. It would be kind of cool to hear the classics in Silbo.
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You're probably just spending less time in the sun and not remembering it. One of the lines in the article mentioned that the sunny times are just as bright and warm as before; It 's the cloudy times that are darker. ...or I could be remembering it wrong.
I'm not a doctor, but I thing you've got yourself a serious case of Monday Morning Quarterback. You are giving the American administration FAR more credit than they are due.
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Let me clear up what I meant when I said that 'the rest of the world'. I should have said 'the governemts of the rest of the world'.
In the debate before the UN, the argument agains force wasn't that the inspectors needed more time to prove that Iraq has disarmed, it was that the inspectors needed more time to disarm Iraq. The implicit assumption was that Iraq had not disarmed
By all reports, the Iraqi government was meticulious when it came to record keeping. That they didn't have or wouldn't produce the records detailing the destruction of the ordinance is somewhat interesting.
Taken by itself it does not indicate that they did or did not destroy any weapons, but it an act that is out of character for the Iraqi government. When viewed against the backdrop of their obstruction and subversion of the inspection process it could be seen as an indication that they are hiding something.
There was data that showed that Iraq still had chemical weapons:
There was the pile of missing warheads that Iraq claimed to have destroyed, but refused to present documentation on.
There was the pile of missing material that could be used in the construction of chemical weapons.
There was testimony from defectors that they had worked on chemical weapons programs.
There was Iraq's histroy of deception and obstruction of UN inspectors.
Bearing just the above data in mind, it's easy to see how an otherwise intelligent person could draw the conclusion that the Iraqis were hiding a chemical weapons program. Once that conclusion was drawn, all other evidence was interpreted in such a way as to reinforce that conclusion.
Wow! those are some choice quotes! They kind of make the administrations look stupid.
But I'm not convinced this makes them liars. Dupes or Fools perhaps, but not liars. For them to be liars, they would have had to willfully and knowingly misrepresented the truth.
There is a difference between being wrong and lieing. The administration thought Iraq had chemical and biological weapons, so did the rest of the world. It appears they were all wrong.
I don't recall any administration ever saying that they knew where the weapons were stored. Back when this whole affair was being bandied about by the security councel I did a fair bit of reading on this topic. The closest this I can recall that was anything like you describe was some satelite intel phots that Sec. State Powel presented to the UN. Nothing that was said in relation to those photos approached willfull misrepresentation of facts.
You have a refrigetator box?!?!? You lucky bastard! I have to live in a hole in the ground.
I don't think those are the same kind of stem cells.
as near as I can figure it the above either means
They are trying to restrict the GPL version of XFS to Linux.
or
XFS has been released under the GPL and a linux implementation is available.
I'm not entirely sure. Can someone clarify this for me please?
When I saw that the first thing I thought was "Does it come with a free MSN Passport account cleaner to?"
Would it be considered ironic that a video that is (in essence) about identity theft would require you to submit personal information in order to view it?
Is that a monopoly mandaeted by law (like the utilities in the US) or is it just the marketplace?
I'm aware enough of international law to know that it's really just a collection of treaties and customs.
But I like to keep an open mind and welcome any opportunity to gain knowledge in this area. You seem like a reasonable fellow. Please enlighten me as to the articles of International Law that would be violated by destroying or jamming a GPS system owned and operated by an international non-governmental organization.
Here you go.
LINK
The part you're interested in if the second article on the page.
Destroying the system would be no more af an act of war than providing the use of the system to an enemy.
Logic eh?
You implied that parents of 30 years ago knew the proper way to raise a child, and that parents today did not.
Now you say that you didn't say that (I must have misread you) Thats a good thing too, because if you had said that, you'd have been wrong. By enlarge, kids today are less likely to comit crimes, less likely to become pregnant, less likely to catch an STD, and more likely to be literate. (Apparently while all the unfit parents were neglecting their kids the kids used that time to have safe sex and study).
And yes, I generally try to go for funny when I see someone say something monumentally stupid. It keeps them from getting their feelings hurt. It doesn't always work. Like this time.
Sorry to have to cut this post short, all this typing is getting in the way of my hard drinking.
If by "widgets" you mean "cocaine", then I suspect it won't be long before your idea gets a real world try out.
KAY:Mike, you never told me you knew Johnny Fontane!
MICHAEL: Sure... You wanna meet him?
KAY:Huh? Oh, well, sure!
MICHAEL:My father helped him with his career.
JOHNNY: (OS)For my Connie...
KAY:He did? How?
JOHNNY: (OS, singing "I Have But One Heart")"I have but one heart..."
MICHAEL:Let's listen to the song...
KAY:Oh, Michael...
CUT TO: Johnny singing to Connie, who's seated. Then PAN the crowd cheering and screaming as Johnny sings
JOHNNY: (singing, continues)"...this heart I bring you / I have but one heart / To share with you / I have but one dream / That I can cling to / You are the one dream/I pray comes true..."
KAY:Please, Michael, tell me.
JOHNNY: (OS, continues the song)"My darling, until I saw you..."
MICHAEL:Well, when Johnny was first starting out, he was signed to this personal service contract; with a big band leader. And as his career got better and better, he wanted to get out of it. Now, Johnny is my father's godson. And my father went to see this band leader, and he offered him $10,000 to let Johnny go. But the band leader said no. So the next day, my father went to see him; only this time with Luca Brasi. And within an hour, he signed a release, for a certified check for $1,000.
KAY:How'd he do that?
MICHAEL:My father made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
KAY:What was that?
MICHAEL:Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my father assured him that either his brains -- or his signature -- would be on the contract.
(then)
That's a true story.
(then, after we see Johnny ending the song)
That's my family, Kay. It's not me.
To protect you from lawsuits I feel I must point out that the 190 degree farenheit temperature only applies while the coffee is being prepared.
The coffee should be allowed to cool before consumption.
I too disconnected my OnStar system. I liked the warm and secure feeling I got from it, but it's signal kept sparking off of my AFBD.
I thought South Africa was a Dutch colony.
There are a few problems with this: First, the Tectonic plates move a lot slower than you're giving them credit. Rather than a few hunderd years, you're mooking at a few hundred thousand years.
Secondly, the edges of the tectonic plates are more like likely to be areas of volcanic activity. It would suck to live downwind of that dump site when a volcano forced those pebbles back up to the surface.
You seem like the right person to ask this questio, "What is .NET?"
For the purposes of this tax what exactly constitutes an email? Is it any communication on port 25? What if I use some other port? Would I get still taxed if I ftp'd a text file? What if the file were compressed. What about message board traffic? What about IRC? What about Instant Messenger? What if I mail someone a floppy with messages on it?
What happens with email from outside of the taxing jurisdiction? Does the receiver pay? (That would be cool. I could just 'drive' across the border and mail bomb people I don't like. POW! right in the checkbook!)
It was fun to hear the whistling across the office as one person after another clicked on the link to the mp3 of the language.
I heard it from up the aisle and went to investigate. It was coming from a guy's headphones, and he was wearing them. They guy that was wearing the headphones didn't even think he had the volume up particularly loud. The guy across from him said he could hear it over the music he was listening to.
I greatly desire to see an English text to Silbo translation engine. It would be kind of cool to hear the classics in Silbo.