The Times of London Sunday March 30, 2003 US Marines turn fire on civilians at the bridge of death Mark Franchetti, Nasiriya
THE light was a strange yellowy grey and the wind was coming up, the beginnings of a sandstorm. The silence felt almost eerie after a night of shooting so intense it hurt the eardrums and shattered the nerves. My footsteps felt heavy on the hot, dusty asphalt as I walked slowly towards the bridge at Nasiriya. A horrific scene lay ahead.
Some 15 vehicles, including a minivan and a couple of trucks, blocked the road. They were riddled with bullet holes. Some had caught fire and turned into piles of black twisted metal. Others were still burning.
Amid the wreckage I counted 12 dead civilians, lying in the road or in nearby ditches. All had been trying to leave this southern town overnight, probably for fear of being killed by US helicopter attacks and heavy artillery.
Their mistake had been to flee over a bridge that is crucial to the coalition's supply lines and to run into a group of shell-shocked young American marines with orders to shoot anything that moved.
One man's body was still in flames. It gave out a hissing sound. Tucked away in his breast pocket, thick wads of banknotes were turning to ashes. His savings, perhaps.
Down the road, a little girl, no older than five and dressed in a pretty orange and gold dress, lay dead in a ditch next to the body of a man who may have been her father. Half his head was missing.
Nearby, in a battered old Volga, peppered with ammunition holes, an Iraqi woman - perhaps the girl's mother - was dead, slumped in the back seat. A US Abrams tank nicknamed Ghetto Fabulous drove past the bodies.
This was not the only family who had taken what they thought was a last chance for safety. A father, baby girl and boy lay in a shallow grave. On the bridge itself a dead Iraqi civilian lay next to the carcass of a donkey.
As I walked away, Lieutenant Matt Martin, whose third child, Isabella, was born while he was on board ship en route to the Gulf, appeared beside me.
"Did you see all that?" he asked, his eyes filled with tears. "Did you see that little baby girl? I carried her body and buried it as best I could but I had no time. It really gets to me to see children being killed like this, but we had no choice." Martin's distress was in contrast to the bitter satisfaction of some of his fellow marines as they surveyed the scene. "The Iraqis are sick people and we are the chemotherapy," said Corporal Ryan Dupre. "I am starting to hate this country. Wait till I get hold of a friggin' Iraqi. No, I won't get hold of one. I'll just kill him."
Original URL: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-62825 8,00.html, currently doesn't work.
Think about it, your neighbors will call the police, telling them "the freak next door has gotten hold of a tank", and with the imminent war and all those terrorism alerts, they'll bring in some serious artillery, which your (presumably) wooden tank sadly will be no match for.
Paying an extra tax on blank CDs is bullshit in my opinion. I'm not sure, but I think there is such a "levy" in the US either on CDs, burners, or both. I just picked up a new burner and a 50-pack of CDs today. You know what I have planned for them? Software backups, and fair-use compilations of my favorite songs for the car (from, obviously, legitimately purchased CDs).
See it this way: whether you like it or not, the content/media industry has an influence on politics through their lobbyists and probably through some other means as well. They want laws passed that protect them from the changes that The Internet has brought upon our society. One way would be to pass a law such as the DMCA that forbids to circumvent copy protection, the other would be some kind of tax on CD-Rs, burners, hard disks and such. I don't want either, but the latter seems the lesser evil to me.
It was their experience that [...] it's not good at low-speed acceleration.
Wow, these guys must be pretty dumb then. If an electric motor is good at anything, it is acceleration. An electric motor has its highest torque at zero rpm. Do a Google search for electric dragsters and you'll find some neat stuff, e.g. like this.
You know, if there's one thing I've learned from being in the army, it's never ignore a pooh-pooh. I knew a major. He got pooh-poohed, made the mistake of ignoring the pooh-pooh - he pooh-poohed it. Fatal error, because it turned out all along that the soldier who pooh-poohed him had been pooh-poohing a lot of other officers, who pooh-poohed their pooh-poohs. In the end, we had to disband the regiment - morale totally destroyed - by pooh-pooh!
Humm... but each space elevator that is erected would slow down the earth's rotation a bit. I wonder how big the effect is, but I'm too lazy to do the math. It might be noticable if this becomes a big thing and is done for an extended period of time.
During the installation, the install program writes your processor's serial number (or soon your TCPA ID) to the CDRR. You probably don't want to "borrow" that CD to anyone anymore.
Or, you could limit how many times a program can be installed... endless possibilities.
Well, there are different groups with different goals. I'd say Saddam supports groups that further his own interest, just like the U.S. did with the Mujaheddin in Afghanistan or the Contras in South America. But the groups that Iraq supports are working agains the Israelis and Iranians, who I believe can cope with them by themselves.
What people don't seem to notice, Saudi Arabiasponsors attacksagainst the U.S. Doesn't it bother anyone that the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis? Wouldn't it be logical to attack Saudi Arabia then?
Who has the authority to say who is a Christian and who is not? Aziz has been baptized and he has not renounced his faith. The article to which you have kindly provided a link (and which is also heavily biased) basically argues that he's not a Christian because he doesn't attend mass regularly and because he took part in repressing religious leaders. Now that would make quite a few figures of western history pagans.
But not to worry, just for you, I've changed my sig.
BTW, care to elaborate on that "Terrorist Attacks" reference?
Higher data transfer rates (since more data passes under the read/write heads at higher spindle speeds).
Uhm, no. Read the article. The drive has a capacity of 36 GB. So the data tranfer rate will be slower, compared to a current high-capacity drive. Server drives are optimized for access time, not transfer rate. That's the reason why they keep increasing the rotational speed, at the cost of data density: rotational latency (the time a R/W head has to wait until a certain sector passes underneath it after it was positioned above the right track) is decreased.
Higher transfer rates are reached by putting multiple drives in a RAID configuration. That's also the reason why you'll not see any benefit from putting a single server drive in your desktop PC.
There was loads of this sort of thing with Diablo II I believe (not really an expert on these MMORPGs though, don't think real money got stolen, although there were a few auto-generated (i.e. fake - an interesting concept in a virtual world) items being sold, wern't there?).
Gee, I wonder if that could cause cause the collapse of a whole economy. Hmm, our economy is becoming more and more virtual...
To develop the technology quickly, StarTiger was created by the ESA. The project brought a group of researchers together for a few months, provided ample money and facilities, and encouraged development of new technology in a short period of time. The researchers started in June, created their first T-ray image last fall, and released one this week.
Sounds really simple and efficient. Is a lot of research done this way?
Furthermore, having goggles using this technology would be a killer advantage in urban and close quarters combat. Wallhack in reality, nowhere to hide! These sensors are manufactured in solid state technology, so power consumption and size would be no problem (comparable to CCDs, I assume).
Hmm, that's weird. AFAIK it was only intended for manufacturers and was leaked into the public, you still can't get it from Award (now Phoenix) directly. You also can't get it from zdnet.com, only from zdnet.de (the German site). My guess is that Award are just turning a blind eye to this.
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Sunday March 30, 2003
US Marines turn fire on civilians at the bridge of death
Mark Franchetti, Nasiriya
THE light was a strange yellowy grey and the wind was coming up, the
beginnings of a sandstorm. The silence felt almost eerie after a night of
shooting so intense it hurt the eardrums and shattered the nerves. My
footsteps felt heavy on the hot, dusty asphalt as I walked slowly towards
the bridge at Nasiriya. A horrific scene lay ahead.
Some 15 vehicles, including a minivan and a couple of trucks, blocked the
road. They were riddled with bullet holes. Some had caught fire and turned
into piles of black twisted metal. Others were still burning.
Amid the wreckage I counted 12 dead civilians, lying in the road or in
nearby ditches. All had been trying to leave this southern town overnight,
probably for fear of being killed by US helicopter attacks and heavy
artillery.
Their mistake had been to flee over a bridge that is crucial to the
coalition's supply lines and to run into a group of shell-shocked young
American marines with orders to shoot anything that moved.
One man's body was still in flames. It gave out a hissing sound. Tucked
away in his breast pocket, thick wads of banknotes were turning to ashes.
His savings, perhaps.
Down the road, a little girl, no older than five and dressed in a pretty
orange and gold dress, lay dead in a ditch next to the body of a man who
may have been her father. Half his head was missing.
Nearby, in a battered old Volga, peppered with ammunition holes, an Iraqi
woman - perhaps the girl's mother - was dead, slumped in the back seat. A
US Abrams tank nicknamed Ghetto Fabulous drove past the bodies.
This was not the only family who had taken what they thought was a last
chance for safety. A father, baby girl and boy lay in a shallow grave. On
the bridge itself a dead Iraqi civilian lay next to the carcass of a
donkey.
As I walked away, Lieutenant Matt Martin, whose third child, Isabella, was
born while he was on board ship en route to the Gulf, appeared beside me.
"Did you see all that?" he asked, his eyes filled with tears. "Did you see
that little baby girl? I carried her body and buried it as best I could but
I had no time. It really gets to me to see children being killed like this,
but we had no choice."
Martin's distress was in contrast to the bitter satisfaction of some of his
fellow marines as they surveyed the scene. "The Iraqis are sick people and
we are the chemotherapy," said Corporal Ryan Dupre. "I am starting to hate
this country. Wait till I get hold of a friggin' Iraqi. No, I won't get
hold of one. I'll just kill him."
Original URL: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-6282
Wrongo, black would be the optimum color for heat exchange.
Think about it, your neighbors will call the police, telling them "the freak next door has gotten hold of a tank", and with the imminent war and all those terrorism alerts, they'll bring in some serious artillery, which your (presumably) wooden tank sadly will be no match for.
No, certainly not.
See it this way: whether you like it or not, the content/media industry has an influence on politics through their lobbyists and probably through some other means as well. They want laws passed that protect them from the changes that The Internet has brought upon our society. One way would be to pass a law such as the DMCA that forbids to circumvent copy protection, the other would be some kind of tax on CD-Rs, burners, hard disks and such. I don't want either, but the latter seems the lesser evil to me.
You mean you're pissed that you can't control what other people do. Tough shit.
Wow, these guys must be pretty dumb then. If an electric motor is good at anything, it is acceleration. An electric motor has its highest torque at zero rpm. Do a Google search for electric dragsters and you'll find some neat stuff, e.g. like this.
You know, if there's one thing I've learned from being in the army, it's never ignore a pooh-pooh. I knew a major. He got pooh-poohed, made the mistake of ignoring the pooh-pooh - he pooh-poohed it. Fatal error, because it turned out all along that the soldier who pooh-poohed him had been pooh-poohing a lot of other officers, who pooh-poohed their pooh-poohs. In the end, we had to disband the regiment - morale totally destroyed - by pooh-pooh!
Yeah, but just you wait until you click the first 3D goatse on /.
Humm ... but each space elevator that is erected would slow down the earth's rotation a bit. I wonder how big the effect is, but I'm too lazy to do the math. It might be noticable if this becomes a big thing and is done for an extended period of time.
Just kidding, I'm using an IBM hard drive myself, and it has never caused my any probl...hey what's that clicking nois&T%$%%%;%%:
Or, you could limit how many times a program can be installed ... endless possibilities.
It's also not universally accepted that the earth is round, but only bozos think otherwise. Vorbis' quality gain is obvious, esp. at low bitrates.
Um. Actually, Airbus is a European consortium.
What people don't seem to notice, Saudi Arabia sponsors attacks against the U.S. Doesn't it bother anyone that the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis? Wouldn't it be logical to attack Saudi Arabia then?
But not to worry, just for you, I've changed my sig.
BTW, care to elaborate on that "Terrorist Attacks" reference?
Uhm, no. Read the article. The drive has a capacity of 36 GB. So the data tranfer rate will be slower, compared to a current high-capacity drive. Server drives are optimized for access time, not transfer rate. That's the reason why they keep increasing the rotational speed, at the cost of data density: rotational latency (the time a R/W head has to wait until a certain sector passes underneath it after it was positioned above the right track) is decreased.
Higher transfer rates are reached by putting multiple drives in a RAID configuration. That's also the reason why you'll not see any benefit from putting a single server drive in your desktop PC.
Not for long, if you look at this hot chick (bottom of the page).
I don't think it's possible to terraform Mars. I wrote an entry in my journal about this.
Gee, I wonder if that could cause cause the collapse of a whole economy. Hmm, our economy is becoming more and more virtual ...
Furthermore, having goggles using this technology would be a killer advantage in urban and close quarters combat. Wallhack in reality, nowhere to hide! These sensors are manufactured in solid state technology, so power consumption and size would be no problem (comparable to CCDs, I assume).
"Computer Enthusiast builds PC inside own Scooped Out Head"
Hmm, that's weird. AFAIK it was only intended for manufacturers and was leaked into the public, you still can't get it from Award (now Phoenix) directly. You also can't get it from zdnet.com, only from zdnet.de (the German site). My guess is that Award are just turning a blind eye to this.