Go back and track the story. The shells were over 20 years old and the chemicals mainly degraded. And guess who the supplier of them to Iraq was...
Those may or may not be true, but that's irrelevant to the question of whether WMDs were found in Iraq. Framed another way, the original poster basically said that no WMDs were found in Iraq. That statement is provably not true, to the best of my knowledge.
As a boolean value, that was !true:
Weapons of Mass Destruction. Unusable relics with degraded payloads are still technically chemical weapons, but they are not capable of Mass Destruction.
I believe photons are free-floating particles that surf on light waves of Ether.
I think maybe photons are the aether, but I don't believe that. What I don't believe is that one experiment that failed to find a directional light-speed difference relative to the trajectory of the earth is proof that there is no ether, and I don't believe that math that works without needing an ether is proof that ether isn't there.
Personally, I'm gay and I don't think homosexuality is genetic.
Thank you, I was getting pretty close to believing that homosexuality made people dumb as dirt and sheeps for the party line. Glad to see that homosexuals aren't all homogenous.
I have nothing against people who like to have sex with others of the same sex (what consenting adults do behind closed doors is none of my business), but I have a great hatred for the mainline "gay culture"... saying stuff like this makes the sheep (straight or not) call me "homophobe" (it's like "antisemite", the doomsday weapon of conversations), because it can't be anything else than a "you're either with us, or against us" situation, can it?
Again, er, don't take my rancor for the groupthink as a hatred of individuals such as yourself, you sound cool : )
WHen the gassing occured the UN wanted to sanction Iraq. The US blocked it. Why? Because we gave saddam the gas, we gave him intelligence, we gave him technology and we basically told him to gas people.
March 1988 "chemical assault" on the town of Halabja, in which the number of dead, according to Human Rights Watch "exceeds 5000".
Think about that.
At least 3,000 people died when a gas leak occurred at the Union Carbide factory in
Bhopal on December 3, 1984 and more than half a million people were seriously injured. At least another 10,000 deaths have been linked to the disaster
I believe that you can dream about things you haven't yet experienced, but will. That sometimes déjà vu is actually an event you have already seen, and not simply a synchronisation error between the two hemispheres of your brain (though not always).
I can't prove it, because you only half remember mundane events and you don't know when they will happen, or that it is a memory of events that are yet to happen, until it happens, and then it's too late to use it as a prediction.
And by half-remember, I mean that you can have the memory of the sensory input without having the memory of the mental analysis that automatically happens when you sense something (that ringing sound is the sound of a "telephone", or the sound of an "alarm clock", for example). Either that or the analysis is not remembered, but a live event only, or again, it is overriden by the analysis of the fact that it is remembered while simultaneously recalled.
Science tells us precognition is impossible, much the same way that science used to tell us that meteorites were impossible (with the math to prove it!), or that a human body couldn't survive a speed of more than 30kph, or that giant squids and giant waves were just the ravings of uneducated sailors.
P.S. here comes the "glitch in the Matrix" jokes... and the jokes about predicting the jokes.
Overrated moderation is not subject to metamoderations, so you can 'punish' views or people you don't like without any chance of losing mod rights.
The system needs an overhaul.
IMHO, our fearless leaders should get rid of the overrated mod, but as you know in the slashdot community this kind of things are not up to debate.:(
The moderations system isn't all that bad, it's the meta that's all screwed up. I hardly ever bother to do it: What's the point? You don't have an acurrate idea of the ciscumstances, and like you mentioned, some are not even taken into consideration.
What I'd like is a way to metamoderate our own recieved mods and metamods. In this case, it wasn't right. I wouldn't have said anything if it had been modded offtopic, 'cause I'm a grownup and it was a tad unrellated to the topic. But I get a lot of... insane moderations that are clear cases of abuse of the system. Clearly the trolls have figured out that they can karma whore their way into mod points and are abusing them.
There's nothing about a government clampdown on free speech
One company (Infinum) asked the courts to prevent a person (and to drain 20 mil from him in the process) from stating embarassing facts about it's executives.
The article is about the fact that the U.S. have not yet completely turned into the Incorporated States of America. Rejoice.
Go to System Preferences, click on Sound. Click on the Sound Effects tab and uncheck "Play feedback when volume keys are pressed".
It's already unchecked. That doesn't stop it from beeping when I let go of the sound slider. Sometimes it doesn't do it when iTunes is in front... sometimes.
p.s. What's hard about pressing the eject key on the keyboard to eject the CD?
Don't have one, and I didn't mean hard for us: I meant hard for it. Man, it shouldn't take THAT long to eject a CD. It doesn't on windows or linux, just macs. Doesn't seem right to me.
Valid, but in their defense, I believe the API to choose default browser is public, so any browser can add that feature
Maybe, but that doesn't explain why they moved it from the system's prefs to the browser prefs. It doesn't belong there (I didn't find it myself... I would never had thought to look for it there).
Now I have 3 complaints about the Mac (damn, ejecting a CD shouldn't be that hard, and I'm lowering the volume so it'll be quiet, don't beep damn you!).
Right, but the side receiving the signals from those in the disaster area aren't in a disaster area. BPL noise interferes with the reception of the emergency traffic.
Slashdot Mirror
Newsflash: Crichton is not a scientist. He makes up the science to suit the story.
You mean... evil robot cowboys won't come to kill me in my bed???
Now I can sleep at night!
: )
my mom was a lying, controlling bitch. By your standards, wouldn't you expect me to be running naked in the night with the devil worshipers?
;-)
I believe you do
Framed another way, the original poster basically said that no WMDs were found in Iraq. That statement is provably not true, to the best of my knowledge.
As a boolean value, that was !true:
Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Unusable relics with degraded payloads are still technically chemical weapons, but they are not capable of Mass Destruction.
turn off the computer, put away the porn, and go find a girlfriend.
I believe you're a witch! A WITCH!
I believe in the luminiferous Ether.
I believe photons are free-floating particles that surf on light waves of Ether.
I think maybe photons are the aether, but I don't believe that. What I don't believe is that one experiment that failed to find a directional light-speed difference relative to the trajectory of the earth is proof that there is no ether, and I don't believe that math that works without needing an ether is proof that ether isn't there.
100% Overrated
How can the BASIC score be overrated?
Cute.
Personally, I'm gay and I don't think homosexuality is genetic.
Thank you, I was getting pretty close to believing that homosexuality made people dumb as dirt and sheeps for the party line. Glad to see that homosexuals aren't all homogenous.
I have nothing against people who like to have sex with others of the same sex (what consenting adults do behind closed doors is none of my business), but I have a great hatred for the mainline "gay culture"... saying stuff like this makes the sheep (straight or not) call me "homophobe" (it's like "antisemite", the doomsday weapon of conversations), because it can't be anything else than a "you're either with us, or against us" situation, can it?
Again, er, don't take my rancor for the groupthink as a hatred of individuals such as yourself, you sound cool : )
We are not all mentally incapable.
things are just to "perfect" to randomly appear. [...] our bodies are amazing pieces of machinery
I have trouble believing in a kind and loving god. Maybe there is a greater power out there, but he's got a twisted sense of humour.
Perhaps God is indifferent?
God is cruel and vengefull.
I believe I'll slip and fall on my face later on for having said that.
Think about that.
in intelligent design.
-nB
--
Hacking your Xbox?
Mentions of "intelligent design" and "xbox" in the same post? Now I'm depressed! : (
I believe that you can dream about things you haven't yet experienced, but will. That sometimes déjà vu is actually an event you have already seen, and not simply a synchronisation error between the two hemispheres of your brain (though not always).
I can't prove it, because you only half remember mundane events and you don't know when they will happen, or that it is a memory of events that are yet to happen, until it happens, and then it's too late to use it as a prediction.
And by half-remember, I mean that you can have the memory of the sensory input without having the memory of the mental analysis that automatically happens when you sense something (that ringing sound is the sound of a "telephone", or the sound of an "alarm clock", for example). Either that or the analysis is not remembered, but a live event only, or again, it is overriden by the analysis of the fact that it is remembered while simultaneously recalled.
Science tells us precognition is impossible, much the same way that science used to tell us that meteorites were impossible (with the math to prove it!), or that a human body couldn't survive a speed of more than 30kph, or that giant squids and giant waves were just the ravings of uneducated sailors.
P.S. here comes the "glitch in the Matrix" jokes... and the jokes about predicting the jokes.
Overrated moderation is not subject to metamoderations, so you can 'punish' views or people you don't like without any chance of losing mod rights.
:(
The system needs an overhaul.
IMHO, our fearless leaders should get rid of the overrated mod, but as you know in the slashdot community this kind of things are not up to debate.
The moderations system isn't all that bad, it's the meta that's all screwed up. I hardly ever bother to do it: What's the point? You don't have an acurrate idea of the ciscumstances, and like you mentioned, some are not even taken into consideration.
What I'd like is a way to metamoderate our own recieved mods and metamods. In this case, it wasn't right. I wouldn't have said anything if it had been modded offtopic, 'cause I'm a grownup and it was a tad unrellated to the topic. But I get a lot of... insane moderations that are clear cases of abuse of the system. Clearly the trolls have figured out that they can karma whore their way into mod points and are abusing them.
Moderation -1
100% Overrated
How can the BASIC score be overrated?
There's nothing about a government clampdown on free speech
One company (Infinum) asked the courts to prevent a person (and to drain 20 mil from him in the process) from stating embarassing facts about it's executives.
The article is about the fact that the U.S. have not yet completely turned into the Incorporated States of America. Rejoice.
Who signed that order? I could have been anyone: Jesus The Christuuuuuuuu, Jed Clampetuuuuuuuu, Justin Timberlakeuuuuuuu? Who knows...?
The Great Chtulhuuuuuuuuu knows...
System preferences -> Sound -> Sound effects -> Play feedback when volume keys are pressed
Already off.
Keyboard doesn't have sound keys.
Doesn't stop the compy from beeping when I let go of the system sound's slide bar.
You can disable beeping when changing volume.
By will alone?
Go to System Preferences, click on Sound. Click on the Sound Effects tab and uncheck "Play feedback when volume keys are pressed".
It's already unchecked. That doesn't stop it from beeping when I let go of the sound slider.
Sometimes it doesn't do it when iTunes is in front... sometimes.
p.s. What's hard about pressing the eject key on the keyboard to eject the CD?
Don't have one, and I didn't mean hard for us: I meant hard for it.
Man, it shouldn't take THAT long to eject a CD. It doesn't on windows or linux, just macs. Doesn't seem right to me.
Right click on the CD. Click on eject.
I didn't mean complicated for the user, I mean the system takes a long time to do it and it sounds quite busy when doing so.
Valid, but in their defense, I believe the API to choose default browser is public, so any browser can add that feature
Maybe, but that doesn't explain why they moved it from the system's prefs to the browser prefs. It doesn't belong there (I didn't find it myself... I would never had thought to look for it there).
Now I have 3 complaints about the Mac (damn, ejecting a CD shouldn't be that hard, and I'm lowering the volume so it'll be quiet, don't beep damn you!).
If you want to use a different browser oe email program, go for it. It is pretty easy to remove the ones you don't want.
One thing though, the default browser selection is in... Safari's preference!
What the hell is that all about?
Right, but the side receiving the signals from those in the disaster area aren't in a disaster area. BPL noise interferes with the reception of the emergency traffic.
DOH! Totally right.
If they had communications from the disaster, why did it take the international community a week to react.
You think there are cargo ships and helicopters loaded up 24/7 with crews, appropriate supplies and doctors just waiting for a disaster to strike?