I would prefer to shoot gallons and gallons of fire hundreds of yards, but that's just me. See my other response on this article for a more pointed criticism of this vehicle.
This is deceptively like taking a standard flatbed truck, with no fancy cab interior, providing an easy way to link the cab to the bed (oh, like say a data and power cable or 2), then tossing on/in any old modular box for the mission...
Humm, didn't we do this with the HEMTT series? The MTV series, hell even the old 2.5 ton series (complete with "modular" 5 ton wrecker for mobility to/from the motorpool), the list goes on.
Oh, just noticed from the article, they cost more. Wow, some innovation.
Your comment brings to mind the only cause that I currently support, i.e., the "Adopt a Vegitarian" movement.
Thanks to you I will have chicken wings, raw clams and a burger for lunch. Topped off with a good long workout before the Peach Bowl kickoff. Will save the veal for tomorrow.
Got to meet him in person.
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Kevin was in the DC area for his book signing tour "The Art of Deception" in November this year. He showed up at the DC2600 meeting and hung around for a while.
Very personable, helpful, nice guy. No, he did not talik me out of any cc#s or pws, hehe... well... I don't think he did...
I spotted him walking through the food court and said "Hey, there's Kevin", he circled around a few times, guess he did not hear me calling his name, and he sat down and stayed for the meeting. As would happen, it was the smallest meeting in years, only 3 of us were there before Kevin got there and I don't think the count got above 15 all night. Go figure.
Several of us got him to sign blank CD-Rs (he wrote "this is not my data" under his signature. He also gave away copies of his book (free as in bird;-).
I got signed disks for my son and me, then many of us went to his book signing at Microcenter the next day. He drew a pretty large crowd there too. Bought 2 copies of his book, one for me one for my son and added the signed stuff to my son's Christmas stuff.
A few years back I helped out with the "June 4th, Free Kevin" demonstration in front of the US Supreme Court, was glad to finally meet him in person.
yea, and I personally remember hearing of it since I was a kid in the 60's
will add: where is the new ice age (not nuclear witer) and where is the global famine (not brutal regime induced, see "A Bed for the Night" by David Rieff)?
You're probably not going to change the mind of someone who is CONVINCED the moon landing was a hoax.
NASA should bother simply because the people that deny the Moon landings are the most amusing of the conspiracy theorists of course!
I get my heartiest chuckles from these folks and, say I, the more ammunition they have the better. They will take everything NASA supplies and twist it into some sort of "it did not... INFINITY" arguement.
Perhaps they should do something oh so "radical" like Russia did and just make a 15% flat tax. [satire engaged] The horrible, awful, terrible result is greater reveues than at any time ever in their history AND the greatest economic expansion ever too.
Horrible, oh the humanity! Equal taxes for all. [satire disengaged]
The IMF isn't interested in helping anyone but the people they represent, IE themselves. they just want to cash out on whatever dirty deal they've setup within the host they've established themselves on.
Another area where Conservatives and Leftists can agree, abolish the IMF.
Perhaps they diverge on giving aid at all, but beginning on common ground is so nice;-)
he IMF is basing its suggestion on the fact that the country's tax base currently rests on the troubled sectors of the economy- banking and manufacturing, which cannot be squeezed anymore.
Hint: if you stop squeezing they will expand. If you squeeze IMs thye will contract. Witness the revenue bonanza that US government gained by dropping the capital gaines tax just a little bit, not even down to optimum.
"Keynesians rush in where Stalinists fear to tread." -- me
Another item to consider, that the parent poster may be mis-describing, States can prohibit certain law-enforcement activities within their States and the only thing the feds can do is commit federal law-enforcement to do [whatever] themselves, or they can withold funds from the State.
Case in point, one of the western States was going to raise the speed limit when there was a federal limit on all roads in the US of 55 MPH. Essentually, if passed, no LEO in the State could write a ticket for exceeding the federal speed limit and there was no federal LEO authority to write speeding tickets. All the feds opened with a threat of witholding all highway funds to that State. Problem was, that State was not spending it's federal highway money anyway. The feds increased the threat by threatening to withold other federal funds too, eventually the Governor caved in.
Before the obvious arguement that my Conservative compatriots usually submit comes up, the feds, in this case, were more than out of line, since they made no offer to reduce the taxes payed by the people of that State, i.e., they were going to continue the unconcionable income tax rates and withold nearly everything that the taxes are supposed to be paying for.
Later, Ronald Regan came in and raised the federal speed limit, it was later removed completely.
Okay, I have had enough, I am going to patent the "one finger response" to the ignorance lawyers can invent, only to be eclipsed by the ignorance government can dispense.
I am a pacifistm, and I know that in the world we live there is time that there is no other solution then be viloent. I am not naive. But do you realy think that if the US army invading Iraq or anywhere else will solve the problem of terrorism.
Iraq, yes, but it solves more of the terrorist infrastructure problem than direct disassembly of their heirchy, like the operations in Afghanastan and the Philippines. As for "anywhere else" it depends on the location and situation.
All you are going to be doing is validating the image that these people have of an evil america, that wants nothing but the oil. I realy believe that the use of violence in this case would make things worst.
Umm, the people that hate us already don't need validation, they have "self validated" anyway. If your theory were as expansive as you suggest, 1.5 million Afghan refugees would have not returned to that country since we began operations there about a year ago.
As for your throwing oil into the mix, the theory does not hold water. I am getting pretty tired of arguing against an accusation that has no evidence to support it, whether it is about Somolia, Afghanastan, Kosovo or Viet Nam.
Commercial outlets (valid copyright infringers) is where they SHOULD have started with in the beginning!
Back-in-the-day it would torque me to no end buying discount tapes (cassett thank you) in retail stores, only to open them and find they were obvious, cheep bootlegs even before playing them twice before breaking.
The "BS" factor may well be within the writing of the article. The feds have plenty of PhDs working on this, but what of the somewhat anti-military New York Times?
And you seem to think that "confrences" (whatever that might be) that would be a "typo" will kill spam?
Not in the slightest, at least I am under no illusion that the "act of conferencing" will do any more good than not having a conference if no substantial issue is addressed.
IF substantial issues *are* addressed there is a greater possibility of progress than ignoring the issue.
Then again, if you are as typo challenged as you are handle-averse, then this explaination will fall on blind eyes.
Just as Christopher Hitchens does, I do admire the consistancy of the true Pacifist. The admiration ends there.
If you are a true Pacifist, you are relying on everybody else playing by your rules of niceness. Getting pummeled into pulp by an uncooperative, evil foe does neither you nor the cause you advocate any good.
You qualify your statements to allow for this, hopefully when another "Band Aide" event comes along you and others will realize that the problem is not a natural disaster, but one of a brutal government starving people through forced relocation with a solution that must go beyond "chatting it out" and requires the victims be protected through the use of force.
As has been pointed out by many in this forum, Ghandi had the advantage of challenging a foe that posessed a serious "nice streak". Had he been against Milosovich, Pot, Saddam, Stalin, Hitler, etc. the outcome would certainly have been different.
Perhaps you might enjoy reading "A Bed For the Night" by David Reiff for some of the real world implications and complexities of humanitarian causes. I purchased this book a few weeks ago and just got into reading it last night (after seeing the author on C-SPAN several times).
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To man the government monitoring facility, maybe the new slavery bill, proposed by Rep. Rangel of New York, can be used to supply labor for the place.
See my homepage and/or journal for a more in-depth analysis of what Rangel is proposing. Hint, it ain't just for drafting soldiers.
I would prefer to shoot gallons and gallons of fire hundreds of yards, but that's just me. See my other response on this article for a more pointed criticism of this vehicle.
This is deceptively like taking a standard flatbed truck, with no fancy cab interior, providing an easy way to link the cab to the bed (oh, like say a data and power cable or 2), then tossing on/in any old modular box for the mission...
Humm, didn't we do this with the HEMTT series? The MTV series, hell even the old 2.5 ton series (complete with "modular" 5 ton wrecker for mobility to/from the motorpool), the list goes on.
Oh, just noticed from the article, they cost more. Wow, some innovation.
Sounds like you might want to join in this protest and get even with the system.
Your comment brings to mind the only cause that I currently support, i.e., the "Adopt a Vegitarian" movement.
Thanks to you I will have chicken wings, raw clams and a burger for lunch. Topped off with a good long workout before the Peach Bowl kickoff. Will save the veal for tomorrow.
Kevin was in the DC area for his book signing tour "The Art of Deception" in November this year. He showed up at the DC2600 meeting and hung around for a while.
;-).
Very personable, helpful, nice guy. No, he did not talik me out of any cc#s or pws, hehe... well... I don't think he did...
I spotted him walking through the food court and said "Hey, there's Kevin", he circled around a few times, guess he did not hear me calling his name, and he sat down and stayed for the meeting. As would happen, it was the smallest meeting in years, only 3 of us were there before Kevin got there and I don't think the count got above 15 all night. Go figure.
Several of us got him to sign blank CD-Rs (he wrote "this is not my data" under his signature. He also gave away copies of his book (free as in bird
I got signed disks for my son and me, then many of us went to his book signing at Microcenter the next day. He drew a pretty large crowd there too. Bought 2 copies of his book, one for me one for my son and added the signed stuff to my son's Christmas stuff.
A few years back I helped out with the "June 4th, Free Kevin" demonstration in front of the US Supreme Court, was glad to finally meet him in person.
yea, and I personally remember hearing of it since I was a kid in the 60's
will add: where is the new ice age (not nuclear witer) and where is the global famine (not brutal regime induced, see "A Bed for the Night" by David Rieff)?
You're probably not going to change the mind of someone who is CONVINCED the moon landing was a hoax.
;-)
NASA should bother simply because the people that deny the Moon landings are the most amusing of the conspiracy theorists of course!
I get my heartiest chuckles from these folks and, say I, the more ammunition they have the better. They will take everything NASA supplies and twist it into some sort of "it did not... INFINITY" arguement.
Oh my, I can feel the giggles building
Perhaps they should do something oh so "radical" like Russia did and just make a 15% flat tax. [satire engaged] The horrible, awful, terrible result is greater reveues than at any time ever in their history AND the greatest economic expansion ever too.
Horrible, oh the humanity! Equal taxes for all. [satire disengaged]
The IMF isn't interested in helping anyone but the people they represent, IE themselves. they just want to cash out on whatever dirty deal they've setup within the host they've established themselves on.
;-)
Another area where Conservatives and Leftists can agree, abolish the IMF.
Perhaps they diverge on giving aid at all, but beginning on common ground is so nice
he IMF is basing its suggestion on the fact that the country's tax base currently rests on the troubled sectors of the economy- banking and manufacturing, which cannot be squeezed anymore.
Hint: if you stop squeezing they will expand. If you squeeze IMs thye will contract. Witness the revenue bonanza that US government gained by dropping the capital gaines tax just a little bit, not even down to optimum.
"Keynesians rush in where Stalinists fear to tread." -- me
Another item to consider, that the parent poster may be mis-describing, States can prohibit certain law-enforcement activities within their States and the only thing the feds can do is commit federal law-enforcement to do [whatever] themselves, or they can withold funds from the State.
Case in point, one of the western States was going to raise the speed limit when there was a federal limit on all roads in the US of 55 MPH. Essentually, if passed, no LEO in the State could write a ticket for exceeding the federal speed limit and there was no federal LEO authority to write speeding tickets. All the feds opened with a threat of witholding all highway funds to that State. Problem was, that State was not spending it's federal highway money anyway. The feds increased the threat by threatening to withold other federal funds too, eventually the Governor caved in.
Before the obvious arguement that my Conservative compatriots usually submit comes up, the feds, in this case, were more than out of line, since they made no offer to reduce the taxes payed by the people of that State, i.e., they were going to continue the unconcionable income tax rates and withold nearly everything that the taxes are supposed to be paying for.
Later, Ronald Regan came in and raised the federal speed limit, it was later removed completely.
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This effect was in a documentry in 1969!
Yes, we know all about you canadians!
Okay, I have had enough, I am going to patent the "one finger response" to the ignorance lawyers can invent, only to be eclipsed by the ignorance government can dispense.
What do you expect in a sex-negative culture?
Where are you? Afghanastan? Nigeria?
Come on over here to the USA, plenty of sex in our culture! I LOVE IT!
I have two words for you: Fight Club
Don't talk about that!
I highly recommend this read for anyone under 40. Over that, (unless you're somewhat feral) I don't think you'll get it.
;-)
I will be too old to understand this book by the end of the week! Need to download and complete it quick
I am a pacifistm, and I know that in the world we live there is time that there is no other solution then be viloent. I am not naive. But do you realy think that if the US army invading Iraq or anywhere else will solve the problem of terrorism.
Iraq, yes, but it solves more of the terrorist infrastructure problem than direct disassembly of their heirchy, like the operations in Afghanastan and the Philippines. As for "anywhere else" it depends on the location and situation.
All you are going to be doing is validating the image that these people have of an evil america, that wants nothing but the oil. I realy believe that the use of violence in this case would make things worst.
Umm, the people that hate us already don't need validation, they have "self validated" anyway. If your theory were as expansive as you suggest, 1.5 million Afghan refugees would have not returned to that country since we began operations there about a year ago.
As for your throwing oil into the mix, the theory does not hold water. I am getting pretty tired of arguing against an accusation that has no evidence to support it, whether it is about Somolia, Afghanastan, Kosovo or Viet Nam.
Commercial outlets (valid copyright infringers) is where they SHOULD have started with in the beginning!
Back-in-the-day it would torque me to no end buying discount tapes (cassett thank you) in retail stores, only to open them and find they were obvious, cheep bootlegs even before playing them twice before breaking.
Ah, that makes more sense.
The "BS" factor may well be within the writing of the article. The feds have plenty of PhDs working on this, but what of the somewhat anti-military New York Times?
And you seem to think that "confrences" (whatever that might be) that would be a "typo" will kill spam?
Not in the slightest, at least I am under no illusion that the "act of conferencing" will do any more good than not having a conference if no substantial issue is addressed.
IF substantial issues *are* addressed there is a greater possibility of progress than ignoring the issue.
Then again, if you are as typo challenged as you are handle-averse, then this explaination will fall on blind eyes.
This story says that AOL got over $7 Million in a court case yesterday!
Wow, these guys might become profitable through worthwhile, even noble, court actions!
BRAVO AOL! BRAVO FEDERAL COURTS! (this time)
Just as Christopher Hitchens does, I do admire the consistancy of the true Pacifist. The admiration ends there.
If you are a true Pacifist, you are relying on everybody else playing by your rules of niceness. Getting pummeled into pulp by an uncooperative, evil foe does neither you nor the cause you advocate any good.
You qualify your statements to allow for this, hopefully when another "Band Aide" event comes along you and others will realize that the problem is not a natural disaster, but one of a brutal government starving people through forced relocation with a solution that must go beyond "chatting it out" and requires the victims be protected through the use of force.
As has been pointed out by many in this forum, Ghandi had the advantage of challenging a foe that posessed a serious "nice streak". Had he been against Milosovich, Pot, Saddam, Stalin, Hitler, etc. the outcome would certainly have been different.
Perhaps you might enjoy reading "A Bed For the Night" by David Reiff for some of the real world implications and complexities of humanitarian causes. I purchased this book a few weeks ago and just got into reading it last night (after seeing the author on C-SPAN several times).