Err... How and to whom did you give notice? The people of Afghanistan do not have access to western media.
But the government does.
I understood that that was an act by some terrorists, not the Taleban military. That's a second mistake. No one has claimed that the Taleban organised or had any knowlege of the WTC.
What the fuck ever. Bin Laden is a 'guest' of the Taliban, runs training camps in Afghanistan Tablian territory, and has fought for the Taliban against the northern Alliance.
Has evidence been presented to the Taleban? They are still willing to talk about it. Bush is not. Oh, you're another one of those freaks who thinks comprimise is a solution to everything. Hell, maybe if we let the Taliban have a little breathing room, this whole wacked-out perversion of Islam jihad they have going will be content with Afganistan and parts of northern Pakistan.
Bin Laden has admitted to blowing up embassies in uninvolved countries, causing massive 'collateral' (non-american civilian) casualties, and admitted to blowing up the USS Cole.
How exactly does due fucking process apply to people who have declared war on your country?
They have just shown once again that they are no better than the terrorists.
Yeah, we gave plenty of advance notice, and then we starting bombing military targets like power stations and SAM sites. Hate to break it to you, but there is a big difference between targeting 50,000 innocent people and targeting a airport/power plant/ etc.
What has the taliban military done to you?
They killed three people I went to high school with, asshole. They also killed 5 of my local volunteer fire department, who were full time FDNY- a common thing in the suburbs of NY.
I want Osama Bin Laden standing tall before a federal judge in a courthouse in NYC. If found guilty, I want him stood up against a wall and shot.
Taliban had the chance to hand him over. They didn't.
The Afgan rebels are hard-core light infantry based around tribal alliances. But when push comes to shove, it's a bunch of guys with AK-47's. AKM's if they're lucky.
Conquering the country would be difficult.
Stomping all over the Taliban and wiping out a few terrorist training camps would be much simpler.
Also, keep in mind that to be succesful, any gurilla movement needs outside aid and a safe haven. If the USA can prevent that, guerilla campaigns are very winnable.
Think that's scary? Check out these KILLER robots
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Back in the 1920's or so, United States companies used the US Marines to crush worker rebellions and strongarm countries for profits. This is where the term banana republic comes from. Anyway, everyone keep an eye out for Microsoft hiring a mercenary army away from Shell Oil or something... or convincing investors that open-source software isn't as secure as M$ software, and they shouldn't invest in countries that don't use M$, the prefered OS of the Free World!.
Totally off topic but informative rant by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.
"War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.
I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.
It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents. "
"Oh shit", say Londoners, as German Zeppelins take to the skies.
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Back in 94 my university decided to wire all the dorms through the steam tunnels. Made sense at the time- there was an exit from the tunnels that ended up by main network room- just get some really looong cable and run it to the dorms, stick a router in the closet, and viola, campus wide ethernet.
Except they forgot to secure the wires in any way. And, while the tunnels weren't used to provide steam to the whole campus anymore, they still did pass near several heat sources. And you (very occasionaly) ran into racoons in there, for fsck's sake (Warm + underground + old grates = racoon heaven). The racoons tend to run like hell when people came around, except for that one poor bastard who ran into momma racoon.
First time I ever heard of a network tech needing to get a rabies shot because of the job. (Those things are vicious.)
The 'tunnels' were about 3 ft wide, 6 ft tall in most places, connected most major buildings (including the Athletic Center- great for midnight skinny dipping, but I digess), and a bunch of techs with cable ran wire all summer.
Then the students showed up. And the SF fans took out their skeleton keys, and lockpicks... and costumes.
Yes kids, AD&D in the tunnel systems is not just an urban legend or a myth from the Big U. Although no one ever built an APPASMU as far as I know.
People running around in tunnels in near darkness plus cramped tunnels plus exposed cables...
One pratfall later, you just un-wired all the freshman dorms.
It would have caused much more of a fuss, except back then, only about 30 students (out of about 1000 freshmen) had even signed up for ethernet! No one got all that bent out of shape over a blown gopher session anyway.
Then that winter, the cables running through one of the tunnels overheated. The idea that some of the steam tunnels might actually pass near some working boilers never occured to anyone, amazingly enough.
So they got a whole bunch of PVC tubing, insulated it, and re-ran the whole thing to the freshman dorms... again.
Supposedly, a few students tried running cables to various locations near surface grates to set up a WAN back in 98 or so- don't think anything ever came of it though.
While you are trying to set up accounts for thousands of students who need their pr0n, just remmeber, you could be facing down a crazed momma racoon instead.
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Mr. Gates never asks a second favor once he's refused the first, understood?
Slashdot Mirror
Err... How and to whom did you give notice? The people of Afghanistan do not have access to western media.
But the government does.
I understood that that was an act by some terrorists, not the Taleban military. That's a second mistake. No one has claimed that the Taleban organised or had any knowlege of the WTC.
What the fuck ever. Bin Laden is a 'guest' of the Taliban, runs training camps in Afghanistan Tablian territory, and has fought for the Taliban against the northern Alliance.
Has evidence been presented to the Taleban? They are still willing to talk about it. Bush is not.
Oh, you're another one of those freaks who thinks comprimise is a solution to everything. Hell, maybe if we let the Taliban have a little breathing room, this whole wacked-out perversion of Islam jihad they have going will be content with Afganistan and parts of northern Pakistan.
Bin Laden has admitted to blowing up embassies in uninvolved countries, causing massive 'collateral' (non-american civilian) casualties, and admitted to blowing up the USS Cole.
How exactly does due fucking process apply to people who have declared war on your country?
Given the fact that you don't know anything about my lifestyle, how do you come to the conclusion that is unsustainable?
Eat shit and die, troll.
U.S. government is fully willing to treat me and my loved ones as a human shield
Okay, this makes no sense at all.
They have just shown once again that they are no better than the terrorists.
Yeah, we gave plenty of advance notice, and then we starting bombing military targets like power stations and SAM sites. Hate to break it to you, but there is a big difference between targeting 50,000 innocent people and targeting a airport/power plant/ etc.
What has the taliban military done to you?
They killed three people I went to high school with, asshole. They also killed 5 of my local volunteer fire department, who were full time FDNY- a common thing in the suburbs of NY.
I want Osama Bin Laden standing tall before a federal judge in a courthouse in NYC. If found guilty, I want him stood up against a wall and shot.
Taliban had the chance to hand him over. They didn't.
Any other stupid fucking questions?
And they don't.
End of fucking story.
The Afgan rebels are hard-core light infantry based around tribal alliances. But when push comes to shove, it's a bunch of guys with AK-47's. AKM's if they're lucky.
Conquering the country would be difficult.
Stomping all over the Taliban and wiping out a few terrorist training camps would be much simpler.
Also, keep in mind that to be succesful, any gurilla movement needs outside aid and a safe haven. If the USA can prevent that, guerilla campaigns are very winnable.
http://www.aerojet.com/program/display.pl?program_ ID=36
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After deploying, it glides around on the aerofoil in a widening circle, and executes attacks on anything that it classifies as armor.
There's an airborne glider version they're working on too.
go here:
http://www.ausa.org/www/greenbook.nsf/(all)/6CA
'Smart' minefields.
Both these systems, once activated, make the final 'shoot/no shoot' decisions themselves.
I didn't see Cyberdyne listed in the development specs anywhere, but you never know.
and read about the Hornet
You think it would have stopped with Jupiter. Damn monoliths.
Who do you think will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes?[1]
A quick shout out to all my peeps in the NSA, DIA and FBI. Peace, y'all
[1] Please, no Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy mentions.
BFD.
to do with their time?
Christ, hiring a few hundred thousand third-worlders and teaching them to use an abacus would be faster.
Or course, the globalization protestors would never go for it... carry on then.
No, but I could throw in some Peters or Hackworth if you like.
Back in the 1920's or so, United States companies used the US Marines to crush worker rebellions and strongarm countries for profits. This is where the term banana republic comes from. Anyway, everyone keep an eye out for Microsoft hiring a mercenary army away from Shell Oil or something... or convincing investors that open-source software isn't as secure as M$ software, and they shouldn't invest in countries that don't use M$, the prefered OS of the Free World!.
Totally off topic but informative rant by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.
"War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.
I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.
It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents. "
Scuse me, I meant 5000 feet per second.
And almost as cool as the LOSAT, which hits around 5000mph
Da, torsavich.
Brings a whole new meaning to 'Blue Screen of Death' dosen't it?
MAC-11 is a full auto .380 version of the MAC-10. Compared to a three man crew manning a M-60, yes, it is pansy-ass.
Firearms, automobile and, hell, just about anyone who manufactures anything is screwed.
Yeah, but was it a pansy-ass MAC-11, or was it a true crew-served heavy automatic weapon like a M2 Browning or Mk19?
Big difference.
So, it's the million monkey approach to security testing, eh?
Makes sense to me.
"Ford! There's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out."
Or pinball.
and Habitrail
"Oh shit", say Londoners, as German Zeppelins take to the skies.
Back in 94 my university decided to wire all the dorms through the steam tunnels. Made sense at the time- there was an exit from the tunnels that ended up by main network room- just get some really looong cable and run it to the dorms, stick a router in the closet, and viola, campus wide ethernet.
Except they forgot to secure the wires in any way. And, while the tunnels weren't used to provide steam to the whole campus anymore, they still did pass near several heat sources. And you (very occasionaly) ran into racoons in there, for fsck's sake (Warm + underground + old grates = racoon heaven). The racoons tend to run like hell when people came around, except for that one poor bastard who ran into momma racoon.
First time I ever heard of a network tech needing to get a rabies shot because of the job. (Those things are vicious.)
The 'tunnels' were about 3 ft wide, 6 ft tall in most places, connected most major buildings (including the Athletic Center- great for midnight skinny dipping, but I digess), and a bunch of techs with cable ran wire all summer.
Then the students showed up. And the SF fans took out their skeleton keys, and lockpicks... and costumes.
Yes kids, AD&D in the tunnel systems is not just an urban legend or a myth from the Big U. Although no one ever built an APPASMU as far as I know.
People running around in tunnels in near darkness plus cramped tunnels plus exposed cables...
One pratfall later, you just un-wired all the freshman dorms.
It would have caused much more of a fuss, except back then, only about 30 students (out of about 1000 freshmen) had even signed up for ethernet! No one got all that bent out of shape over a blown gopher session anyway.
Then that winter, the cables running through one of the tunnels overheated. The idea that some of the steam tunnels might actually pass near some working boilers never occured to anyone, amazingly enough.
So they got a whole bunch of PVC tubing, insulated it, and re-ran the whole thing to the freshman dorms... again.
Supposedly, a few students tried running cables to various locations near surface grates to set up a WAN back in 98 or so- don't think anything ever came of it though.
While you are trying to set up accounts for thousands of students who need their pr0n, just remmeber, you could be facing down a crazed momma racoon instead.
Mr. Gates never asks a second favor once he's refused the first, understood?