IBM also did the key work in getting the giant magnetoresistive read heads working for modern hard drives - from when the effect was discovered in Europe in 1988 with pure crystalline samples, IBM took it on and showed you could get it with cheap polycrystalline materials, had the first spin valve within six years, and a commercial hard drive within 9.
They are not illegal by Geneva or any international body's standards.
This is by the legal trick of declaring them 'illegal combatants' rather than prisoners of war, so you don't have to obey the third convention? Except that the third convention states that militias and volunteer corps are Prisoners of War - so a court might argue that Taleban members should be considered POWs.
This may surprise you, but a good number of 'liberals' will view the 'conservatives' as being the ones choked up by irrational fear. Fear of the unknown. Fear of the Other. Fear of other religions, other creeds, other colours. In the UK (where I live, so I'm inherently politically to the left of you anyway), it is the right wing newspapers that thrive most on scaring their readers - fear of asylum seekers, fear of gypsies, fear of Islam, fear of Tony Blair (well, OK the last one is probably justified).
So, to some 'liberals', you may well appear to be an incoherently terrified 'conservative', clutching at your gun as a last means of protection to a scary world full of evil bogeymen. If you're insulted by that description, consider that many 'liberals' would be insulted by your description of them.
I wasn't talking about the Americans in Iraq, I was talking about Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo. The question was whether something needed to be done about Kosovo in 1999, or whether people should just wring their hands and ask the Serbs if they'd nicely mind not wiping out the male populations of entire towns this time (you're not going to deny Srebenica are you?). The fact that the KLA weren't exactly cuddly bunnies doesn't justify attacks on civilians. So something had to be done. I didn't say that what was done was necessarily the best way to do it, or done well (it patently wasn't, and they're still not doing as good a job as they should do) but what else was there to do? Sanctions were already applied to the hilt anyway. And the Serbs didn't exactly have a reputation for restraint at that time. OK, the number of civilian dead turned out to be lower than feared - but that's hindsight. It could have topped Srebenica for all the west knew at the time. The mass graves might be small, but they .
And as for 'handing it to the KLA' - they held an election. The party that formed from the KLA won enough votes that it had to have a share in government. Are you in favour of banning people who were members of an organisation you don't like from standing for election? Those who can be shown to have commited illegal acts should of course be punished, but if they haven't - they should be allowed to stand. Your signature applies both ways you know.
Well, since your link is the translation of a Mr Milosevic's testimony to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, I'd suggest he may not be the most impartial of commentators...
Um. Those links you cited - that's like citing Fox News to back up a right wing viewpoint. So frankly, I'd trust them about as much as I'd trust Fox. They're nice if you merely want to back up the view you've formed already, but if you are capable of viewing things in colours other than black and white, not exactly helpful.
But, if you'd like a website, try
The Guardian - it has quite a lot in its archives on Kosovo.
I believe in the UK, they're not allowed to ban you from going to another company, but if you've given notice they can tell you not to come into work as long as they still pay you (gardening leave), for the duration of the notice period. You're still employed by them, so you can't go and work for anyone else.
He looks like he was designed to be your plastic pal who's fun to be with by some jerk who'll be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes...
The real problem is that journalists, like politicians and many members of the general public want to pretend that things are absolutely clear and certain. Well, bad news, things rarely are.
So when British intelligence stated that Iraq had sought uranium from Niger, they were right. When Wilson stated "It was highly doubtful that any such (Niger-Iraq) transaction had ever taken place." - he was also right. Iraq had tried, but there is no evidence they'd succeeded.
Satellites will need to be more radiation hardened, people will wear more sunblock and cover up outdoors, a suntan becomes deeply unfashionable. Big hats and baggy clothes will be the fashion. Migrating birds and other animals that rely on the field are more likely to be confused, businesses will have to spend more money protecting sensitive equipment. Skin cancers rise.
But this is going to be a gradual thing, not a sudden shut off. The thing I'm dreading most is all the cranks and loons declaring it to be the Imminent End of the World.
How do you work out sunlight as benefiting Mars more than the moon? Lunar bases will get as much sunlight as Earth (ignoring atmosphere effects), while Mars will get less since it's further away from the sun.
I guess it's somewhere that's not called Biafra anymore
Biafra was a short-lived breakaway state in Nigeria, named after the Bight of Biafra. Biafra didn't get the international support it had hoped for, and after three years of war with Nigeria, Biafra capitulated. About a million people died from the fighting and the consequent famine.
Would we have given a damn about their invasion of the Philippines, Burma etc. and the Rape of Nanking if it were not for Pearl Harbor? I think not.
The US applied economic sanctions on Japan prior to Pearl Harbor. Some in the US government in 1931 were in favour of actions in response to the invasion of Manchuria, but Hoover decided against them. In July 1939, the Roosevelt administration abrogated the Japanese-American Treaty of commerce, and in July 1940 introduced a licensing system for exports of petroleum and scrap iron to Japan. In July 1941, the US froze all Japanese funds in the US, and suspended all trade.
Flexplay discs are fully recyclable and conform to all applicable EPA environmental standards.
Flexplay has partnered with GreenDisk and local environmental organizations to develop several closed-loop recycling options to test with consumers.
Not that it's still far less environmentally friendly than making something durable in the first place. Hopefully the EU will have one of its environmental hissy fits and ban them over here...
But probably death-from-exposure/hypothermia bait.
Only if she falls out of the boat, or is hit by another one. People from the rowing club I row with have rowed across the Atlantic in two man boats - there is an atlantic rowing race every two years. In the last one (in 2003), 15 of the 16 crews completed the challenge (the other one was forced to abandon when one of the rowers had an epileptic fit).
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The BBC website states that Fish and Mostly Harmless will be broadcast in 2005.
IBM also did the key work in getting the giant magnetoresistive read heads working for modern hard drives - from when the effect was discovered in Europe in 1988 with pure crystalline samples, IBM took it on and showed you could get it with cheap polycrystalline materials, had the first spin valve within six years, and a commercial hard drive within 9.
World War III happened and I missed it?
The phrase we are looking for is Down the pan...
So, to some 'liberals', you may well appear to be an incoherently terrified 'conservative', clutching at your gun as a last means of protection to a scary world full of evil bogeymen. If you're insulted by that description, consider that many 'liberals' would be insulted by your description of them.
I'd heard Bush bought his share in the Texas Rangers for about half a million, and sold it for nearly 15 million.
Of course, since I don't have any family friends who own major league baseball teams they're selling, there's no chance I could pull the same trick...
And as for 'handing it to the KLA' - they held an election. The party that formed from the KLA won enough votes that it had to have a share in government. Are you in favour of banning people who were members of an organisation you don't like from standing for election? Those who can be shown to have commited illegal acts should of course be punished, but if they haven't - they should be allowed to stand. Your signature applies both ways you know.
Well, since your link is the translation of a Mr Milosevic's testimony to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, I'd suggest he may not be the most impartial of commentators...
Um. Those links you cited - that's like citing Fox News to back up a right wing viewpoint. So frankly, I'd trust them about as much as I'd trust Fox. They're nice if you merely want to back up the view you've formed already, but if you are capable of viewing things in colours other than black and white, not exactly helpful. But, if you'd like a website, try The Guardian - it has quite a lot in its archives on Kosovo.
I believe in the UK, they're not allowed to ban you from going to another company, but if you've given notice they can tell you not to come into work as long as they still pay you (gardening leave), for the duration of the notice period. You're still employed by them, so you can't go and work for anyone else.
He looks like he was designed to be your plastic pal who's fun to be with by some jerk who'll be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes...
So when British intelligence stated that Iraq had sought uranium from Niger, they were right. When Wilson stated "It was highly doubtful that any such (Niger-Iraq) transaction had ever taken place." - he was also right. Iraq had tried, but there is no evidence they'd succeeded.
Actually, that's one of the reasons the cycling authorities are not too happy about riders who use Camelbacks - they suspect they do act as spoilers!
Try telling them that in Nanking...
Satellites will need to be more radiation hardened, people will wear more sunblock and cover up outdoors, a suntan becomes deeply unfashionable. Big hats and baggy clothes will be the fashion. Migrating birds and other animals that rely on the field are more likely to be confused, businesses will have to spend more money protecting sensitive equipment. Skin cancers rise.
But this is going to be a gradual thing, not a sudden shut off. The thing I'm dreading most is all the cranks and loons declaring it to be the Imminent End of the World.
How do you work out sunlight as benefiting Mars more than the moon? Lunar bases will get as much sunlight as Earth (ignoring atmosphere effects), while Mars will get less since it's further away from the sun.
A recent article in Palaeontologica Electronica (vol 7, issue 1) suggests so. A brief summary in the New Scientist news article
Well, that's advertisers for you. They're often anti social - which is why Camden council have taken out an AntiSocial Behaviour Order on Sony...
The secret to making good sausages is NOT to prick them.
Biafra was a short-lived breakaway state in Nigeria, named after the Bight of Biafra. Biafra didn't get the international support it had hoped for, and after three years of war with Nigeria, Biafra capitulated. About a million people died from the fighting and the consequent famine.
The US applied economic sanctions on Japan prior to Pearl Harbor. Some in the US government in 1931 were in favour of actions in response to the invasion of Manchuria, but Hoover decided against them. In July 1939, the Roosevelt administration abrogated the Japanese-American Treaty of commerce, and in July 1940 introduced a licensing system for exports of petroleum and scrap iron to Japan. In July 1941, the US froze all Japanese funds in the US, and suspended all trade.
Only if she falls out of the boat, or is hit by another one. People from the rowing club I row with have rowed across the Atlantic in two man boats - there is an atlantic rowing race every two years. In the last one (in 2003), 15 of the 16 crews completed the challenge (the other one was forced to abandon when one of the rowers had an epileptic fit).