It's actually fossil fuel, except that instead of being dinosaur-fossil fuel (yeah, I know it's not actual dinos), it's fossil-star fuel. (And solar is different in that it harnesses energy that would be just dissipated away if we don't use it).
"You" didn't claim the country as yours, but you treated its main resource (that would be... OIL, genius) as yours. And not too subtly. Remember the pre-war bullshit? Let me refresh your memory: "the war will pay for itself with oil"
Well, per international law, the US should be PAYING for the damage it did with war reparation, not taking the oil money for itself.
You cannot call it "I told you so" because European opposition was in itself a power play.
The ONLY power play is that in OLD EUROPE (France, Germany...) our governments did what 90% of their population ask them to do, through MASSIVE demonstrations of 1 million+, including myself. Democracy, ever heard about it?
I don't care if Chirac did what the people who elected him wanted him to do because his palm reader told him to or because he didn't like Chimpy's face, the fact is that democracy was respected in OLD EUROPE, whereas Blair the war criminal and Aznar the francisto-fascist went against 90% of their electorate and backed a WAR CRIME.
This is not a joke, hundreds of thousands of people have died, millions have lost their homes, their jobs.
In Soviet Russia, most people in the goulags were there for crimes of black market. Thing is, everybody practiced the black market, so when the authorities wanted to send someone away, they just picked that.
Colonialism was a crime, and De Gaulle got France out of Algeria. He wasn't in power during Indochina. But anyway, he's long dead, in case you haven't noticed. How about we do something about crimes happening right now? Could save a few (million) lives.
I can also give you a dozen examples of where leaving the enemy's army intact in a token position backfired (Germany after WWI Germany after WWI has nothing to do with imperialism. I'm not sure how intact the army was, I seem to remember that the country was largely barred from producing weapons, even dirigeables, for a while after WWI. But even if it was, the "backfiring" had many other possible origins.
Bush is not a war criminal. Please do not cheapen the term.
During the Nurenberg trial, the chief American prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson, stated:
To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.
I'm not aware of this interpretation being seriously disputed.
While it is true that Machiavelli is, along with Hobbes, one of the founding authors of what is known as the "realist" school of thought in international relations as a study, his thought processes are largely obsolete.
No shit. That's my fucking point, they don't even grasp 500 year old international relations theory.
Hindsight is always 20/20 from our comfortable arm chairs.
Not just about this army thing, but about the Iraq invasion in general, just go back to what Villepin and Chirac said in 2002-2003 as to what was going to happen. It's not hindsight, it's "I TOLD YOU SO" in big fat red capitals. And not (just) from your fringe leftist nutbags.
Much like the Soviet at a later time, the US believed its own anticommunist propaganda so much that it felt kicked in the nut when the Soviets built a nuke just a few years after them, then beat them decisively on the delivery and communication part. Sputnik wasn't just a great scientific and technological advance, it also said, clearly, "we can bomb you from space and you can't deny it because everyone can hear sputnik." Sure, the US beat them back, but you have to ask yourself, what did it take? Well it took a JFK to launch a massive state-run endeavour, the Apollo program, among others. Yet you still buy the anticommunist propaganda that the state is only good at wasting taxpayer money. Well, apparently, it's particularly apt at it with a republican president using it to attack third world nations.
Indeed. Machiavelli laid this out in The Prince centuries ago. It's a very readable book, I recommend it. That's why it's kind of mind-boggling to see the US fail so miserably in its imperialist occupation in Iraq. The part where they disbanded the Iraqi army instead of giving them at least tokens of power is especially laughable in this respect; it shows that Bush, along with his merry band of war criminals, is most certainly as stupid and ignorant as he looks.
A similar measure was included in a bill last year, and was promptly ruled unconstitutional by the highest court (Cour Constitutionnelle). Specifically, that a punishment, no matter how benign, was to be executed without due process was deemed to be a violation of the declaration of human rights or something. So basically, this won't happen. It's still worrisome that they're trying to push that shit.
In Europe, it's only cheaper in Norway, Switzerland, and... Finland. Not sure about why it is so in Finland, but for the first two this is due to their exceptional hydroelectric potential. Electricy is much more expensive in all other similar-sized countries in Europe. Especially in UK and Germany since they privatized -- prices have gone WAY up. Privatizing electricity is pointless, and shouldn't be done. I'd rather have the "inefficiency" of paying lots of civil servants who have the luxury to do their job right in between naps, rather than have a Golden Boy "rationalize" on security to pay for his next private jet. Case in point, there is a reason capitalists are salivating at EDF's possible privatization. Its nuclear reactors have been provisioned very conservatively, financially speaking. IOW billions of euros have been set aside for future dismantling and servicing. Future owners would love to use this money as leverage -- because obivously they don't get to spend it, at least directly.
Why don't you read up about democratically elected Mohammad Mosaddeq and what happened to him, courtesy of the US gov't? The hostage crisis... well it's NOTHING comparing to the massive raping the US administered to Iran and Iranians over 50 years ago.
You idiots keep talking about Iran. Meanwhile, in Pakistan, a country with actual nukes, martial law has been declared, and it's a big mess. Iran isn't sponsoring terrorism those days. Pakistan is harboring most of what you call Al Qaeda. 9/11 hijackers were sunnis. Iran is shiite. Pakistan is sunni. Iranian religious leaders say they oppose nuclear weapons on religious grounds, they consider them evil. Sure, they could be lying. In the mean time, hot headed extremists in Israel, Pakistan and the US have no such qualms.
Yeah, well said! You rock! I'm sure nobody's thought of that!.......
Just kidding, who do you think you are? Do you think architects do the welding and cement mixing themselves? Do you realize that buildings have been built for, oh, I don't know, thousands of years, and that maybe, just maybe, people thought of this before you?
The reason why MIT is suing the *architect* is, I believe, because he's responsible for choosing and hiring those engineering firms which were derelict in their duty, and failed to supervise them. Those firms are most likely not contracted directly by MIT, therefore have no direct contractual obligation to them. The architect will, in turn, sue the contractors, or his insurers will.
I'm not a lawyer, I'm not a civil engineer, I'm just a guy one of whose friends had to sue a real estate developer for the same kind of shit, and who used to have a civil engineer as a neighbor.
Yeah, that's... convenient. And impractical, since you won't know the place uses such a device. So you get there, realize you have no service, so you change your voicemail message... and you have to go out of range of the device. Really practical. Duh.
It would be extremely unefficient to keep sysadmins on the premises 24/7 when there's an emergency only once in a while. By having people on call, and making use of modern technology (!), you can have 5 people available in a pinch when things go wrong once in a while, instead of just one sitting in a room and wasting his time. But anyway, what it gets down to is that you don't seem to be smart enough to realize that some people actually have responsibilities, don't live in their mom's basement, and use their cellphones for something productive.
Criminal? That's an hyperbole. Here's a use of the word that's not: preventing access to emergency services because it affords you a little convenience is, literally, criminal. Besides, while I can see the harm of a cellphone ring during a live theatrical performance, such as a play or an opera, it's merely an annoyance during a movie. And as far as restaurants are concerned, well, it's not like asking the offending patron to STFU is going to stop the globe from spinning. And sysadmins, doctors and other "on-call" professions have a right to eat, don't they?
This was in France, and laws regarding speech are very different, starting with the absence of a "first amendment." I'm not 100% clear on the legal definition of "defamation" on one hand, and "diffamation" on the other, but they need not mean the exact same thing; they probably don't.
I don't know the term in English, but this was a "référé" lawsuit, which means that the plaintiff claimed there was an emergency. The court was not deciding on the basic merits of the case, but rather deciding whether the alleged libellous statements were so bad that something had to be done ASAP. In any case, I don't believe the court would have awarded them any money (that would be for a normal lawsuit to decide), but they could have ordered WP to do delete the stuff from their DB (could luck with all the mirrors laying around) or face contempt. BTW 100k is just outrageous, even celebrities don't get that much when suing repeat-offender tabloids. At best they'd get a few hundred bucks and attorney's fees.
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Gigawatts measure power, not energy. Power = energy / time. When you sell the equipment, power = 0 W.
It's actually fossil fuel, except that instead of being dinosaur-fossil fuel (yeah, I know it's not actual dinos), it's fossil-star fuel. (And solar is different in that it harnesses energy that would be just dissipated away if we don't use it).
Well, not officially an adviser, but Creative Common founder Lawrence Lessig supports Obama.
So your cynicism is badly placed.
"You" didn't claim the country as yours, but you treated its main resource (that would be ... OIL, genius) as yours. And not too subtly. Remember the pre-war bullshit? Let me refresh your memory: "the war will pay for itself with oil"
Well, per international law, the US should be PAYING for the damage it did with war reparation, not taking the oil money for itself.
You cannot call it "I told you so" because European opposition was in itself a power play.
...) our governments did what 90% of their population ask them to do, through MASSIVE demonstrations of 1 million+, including myself. Democracy, ever heard about it?
The ONLY power play is that in OLD EUROPE (France, Germany
I don't care if Chirac did what the people who elected him wanted him to do because his palm reader told him to or because he didn't like Chimpy's face, the fact is that democracy was respected in OLD EUROPE, whereas Blair the war criminal and Aznar the francisto-fascist went against 90% of their electorate and backed a WAR CRIME.
This is not a joke, hundreds of thousands of people have died, millions have lost their homes, their jobs.
What terms? The weapons inspectors, remember them? Well, they were all against the war. Scott Ritter, rings a bell?
But anyway, per the UN Charter, unless military action is either self-defense OR is authorised by the UNSC, it is a war against peace. Period.
It's sad that, years after all the BULLSHIT about this war has been debunked, you're still falling for the neocon party line.
In Soviet Russia, most people in the goulags were there for crimes of black market. Thing is, everybody practiced the black market, so when the authorities wanted to send someone away, they just picked that.
Colonialism was a crime, and De Gaulle got France out of Algeria. He wasn't in power during Indochina. But anyway, he's long dead, in case you haven't noticed. How about we do something about crimes happening right now? Could save a few (million) lives.
I can also give you a dozen examples of where leaving the enemy's army intact in a token position backfired (Germany after WWI
Germany after WWI has nothing to do with imperialism. I'm not sure how intact the army was, I seem to remember that the country was largely barred from producing weapons, even dirigeables, for a while after WWI. But even if it was, the "backfiring" had many other possible origins.
During the Nurenberg trial, the chief American prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson, stated:
I'm not aware of this interpretation being seriously disputed.
While it is true that Machiavelli is, along with Hobbes, one of the founding authors of what is known as the "realist" school of thought in international relations as a study, his thought processes are largely obsolete.
No shit. That's my fucking point, they don't even grasp 500 year old international relations theory.
Hindsight is always 20/20 from our comfortable arm chairs.
Not just about this army thing, but about the Iraq invasion in general, just go back to what Villepin and Chirac said in 2002-2003 as to what was going to happen. It's not hindsight, it's "I TOLD YOU SO" in big fat red capitals. And not (just) from your fringe leftist nutbags.
Much like the Soviet at a later time, the US believed its own anticommunist propaganda so much that it felt kicked in the nut when the Soviets built a nuke just a few years after them, then beat them decisively on the delivery and communication part. Sputnik wasn't just a great scientific and technological advance, it also said, clearly, "we can bomb you from space and you can't deny it because everyone can hear sputnik."
Sure, the US beat them back, but you have to ask yourself, what did it take? Well it took a JFK to launch a massive state-run endeavour, the Apollo program, among others.
Yet you still buy the anticommunist propaganda that the state is only good at wasting taxpayer money. Well, apparently, it's particularly apt at it with a republican president using it to attack third world nations.
Indeed. Machiavelli laid this out in The Prince centuries ago. It's a very readable book, I recommend it.
That's why it's kind of mind-boggling to see the US fail so miserably in its imperialist occupation in Iraq. The part where they disbanded the Iraqi army instead of giving them at least tokens of power is especially laughable in this respect; it shows that Bush, along with his merry band of war criminals, is most certainly as stupid and ignorant as he looks.
It's actually "Conseil Constitutionnel" IIRC.
A similar measure was included in a bill last year, and was promptly ruled unconstitutional by the highest court (Cour Constitutionnelle). Specifically, that a punishment, no matter how benign, was to be executed without due process was deemed to be a violation of the declaration of human rights or something.
So basically, this won't happen. It's still worrisome that they're trying to push that shit.
In Europe, it's only cheaper in Norway, Switzerland, and ... Finland. Not sure about why it is so in Finland, but for the first two this is due to their exceptional hydroelectric potential.
Electricy is much more expensive in all other similar-sized countries in Europe. Especially in UK and Germany since they privatized -- prices have gone WAY up. Privatizing electricity is pointless, and shouldn't be done. I'd rather have the "inefficiency" of paying lots of civil servants who have the luxury to do their job right in between naps, rather than have a Golden Boy "rationalize" on security to pay for his next private jet.
Case in point, there is a reason capitalists are salivating at EDF's possible privatization. Its nuclear reactors have been provisioned very conservatively, financially speaking. IOW billions of euros have been set aside for future dismantling and servicing. Future owners would love to use this money as leverage -- because obivously they don't get to spend it, at least directly.
Karma whoring, indeed ...
Had you compiled Linux in the past 5 years, you might have noticed that it can do just that on suitable hardware.
Why don't you read up about democratically elected Mohammad Mosaddeq and what happened to him, courtesy of the US gov't? ... well it's NOTHING comparing to the massive raping the US administered to Iran and Iranians over 50 years ago.
The hostage crisis
You idiots keep talking about Iran. Meanwhile, in Pakistan, a country with actual nukes, martial law has been declared, and it's a big mess.
Iran isn't sponsoring terrorism those days. Pakistan is harboring most of what you call Al Qaeda.
9/11 hijackers were sunnis. Iran is shiite. Pakistan is sunni.
Iranian religious leaders say they oppose nuclear weapons on religious grounds, they consider them evil. Sure, they could be lying. In the mean time, hot headed extremists in Israel, Pakistan and the US have no such qualms.
Yeah, well said! You rock! I'm sure nobody's thought of that! ... ....
Just kidding, who do you think you are? Do you think architects do the welding and cement mixing themselves? Do you realize that buildings have been built for, oh, I don't know, thousands of years, and that maybe, just maybe, people thought of this before you?
The reason why MIT is suing the *architect* is, I believe, because he's responsible for choosing and hiring those engineering firms which were derelict in their duty, and failed to supervise them. Those firms are most likely not contracted directly by MIT, therefore have no direct contractual obligation to them. The architect will, in turn, sue the contractors, or his insurers will.
I'm not a lawyer, I'm not a civil engineer, I'm just a guy one of whose friends had to sue a real estate developer for the same kind of shit, and who used to have a civil engineer as a neighbor.
And on my systems, svscan is started by svscan-boot from rc.local.
Yeah, that's ... convenient. ... and you have to go out of range of the device.
And impractical, since you won't know the place uses such a device. So you get there, realize you have no service, so you change your voicemail message
Really practical. Duh.
It would be extremely unefficient to keep sysadmins on the premises 24/7 when there's an emergency only once in a while. By having people on call, and making use of modern technology (!), you can have 5 people available in a pinch when things go wrong once in a while, instead of just one sitting in a room and wasting his time.
But anyway, what it gets down to is that you don't seem to be smart enough to realize that some people actually have responsibilities, don't live in their mom's basement, and use their cellphones for something productive.
Criminal? That's an hyperbole. Here's a use of the word that's not: preventing access to emergency services because it affords you a little convenience is, literally, criminal.
Besides, while I can see the harm of a cellphone ring during a live theatrical performance, such as a play or an opera, it's merely an annoyance during a movie. And as far as restaurants are concerned, well, it's not like asking the offending patron to STFU is going to stop the globe from spinning. And sysadmins, doctors and other "on-call" professions have a right to eat, don't they?
This was in France, and laws regarding speech are very different, starting with the absence of a "first amendment."
I'm not 100% clear on the legal definition of "defamation" on one hand, and "diffamation" on the other, but they need not mean the exact same thing; they probably don't.
I don't know the term in English, but this was a "référé" lawsuit, which means that the plaintiff claimed there was an emergency. The court was not deciding on the basic merits of the case, but rather deciding whether the alleged libellous statements were so bad that something had to be done ASAP. In any case, I don't believe the court would have awarded them any money (that would be for a normal lawsuit to decide), but they could have ordered WP to do delete the stuff from their DB (could luck with all the mirrors laying around) or face contempt.
BTW 100k is just outrageous, even celebrities don't get that much when suing repeat-offender tabloids. At best they'd get a few hundred bucks and attorney's fees.