When I did my military service i put a 5.56x45mm NATO FMJ from one of these through a 25cm thick pinetree...
But I guess a tree is less compact than stacked paper, so who knows?
Under any circumstances, I would recommend being very careful around firearms.
Well...
The open unemployment rate was around 5% in october 2003.
And, concerning the debt:
The CIA Worldbook uses old numbers (1994).
It only counts external debt, not internal.
The total Swedish national debt is 50% of GDP (end of 2002) and currently sinking slowly.
It may sound like a lot, but is actually less than the total would have been during the period the CIA Worldbook covers (we had a economic crisis in the early 90's. Since then, the administration has made a point of getting rid of the debt, particulary the external debt.)
If you want something to compare with, the US had at that point (2002) a national debt amounting to 60% of GDP, so the Swedish debt may not be high, but 30% it is (unfortunatly) not.
I'm swedish, and I like living here, but get your facts straight!
Living here is good, that is true, but it is not the utopia you make it out to be.
You are describing Sweden in the 70's, not in the 00's. (Being completely intact after WWII gave us a good head start...)
After a slight crisis in the 90's national debt is up, unemployment is up a bit, and we are over all more on par with other western european countries.
it has been clear in all education on "rules of war" in the Swedish army for the last 20 years at least that there are "combatants" and "illegal combatants" or "bandits". And I have served in the army, so I know.
I, too, served in the Swedish army, and you are both right and wrong...
There exists a distinction between combatants and "bandits". But bandits (or illegal combatants) are criminals, and treated as such. They are not stuck in a legal limbo, that is what Ashcroft invented.
Simply put, they are either combatants and criminals, there are rules for dealing with both.
Ashcroft just doesn't feel like following the rules, so he makes up an exception...
Actually, it seems like the money would be better spent in China, improving the humanitarian and social situation.
I'm all for space programs, but a country like China should reconsider its priorities.
Yeah, cause we all know a space program has no positive spin-off effects...
Look at the US if you want examples!
Have you even considered what the space program will do for the chinese economy in general, and the tech-sector in particular?
Sure, china should work on improving the humanitarian and social situation, but that doesn't mean they should do nothing else until they are "done" with that.
War won't diappear if we're afraid to use new tools. People will throw rocks at each other if they have nothing else.
True, but I think we would be better off if people had to fight out their differences with sharpened sea-shells on sticks.
I prefer that to hydrogen bombs...
As I understand it (i might be wrong) their first taikonaut is also a rather famous fighter pilot.
I would guess that him simply vanishing after a launch that allegedly never happened would raise some eybrows...
Wanna bet that this Fortune 500 company did not pay very much for it's "license".
SCO are desperate for some "customers" to make the look good.
I wouldn't be surprised if it whent something like this.
Darl:Hey, you're a big company.
We will license linux to your entire organisation for $1, deal? Company:Yeah, sure, whatever, Darl. As long as you don't use our name and quit pestering us. now if you excuse me, I have some business to do. You know, with actual customers, and actual products.
Or it was just Microsoft trying to give SCO some credibility and cash to keep them alive a little bit longer...
I'd like to see Bioware putting out a bugfixed Xbox version, but I figure that's never going to happen.
Actually, it seems like they already did just that. I own the PAL version of the game (released in europe a few months after the NTSC US-version) and a lot of the bugs (but not all) seems to be fixed.
Bugs or no bugs, it is a great RPG, and you should definitly get it, it's one of the few games wort buying an XBOX for. (The others, IMHO being HALO, Jet Set/Grind Radio and Deathrow)
Really, we did this. Don't remember names or dates, though.
I really don't know much about the matter, except that the only thing you could have done to make your post even less credible was to post it as an Anonymous Coward.
Keep this up and the other guy don't even have to say anything to win the argument...
Yes the US singlehandedly built Japans and western Europes broadband infrastructure fifty years ago.
And the US took every penny of the cost out of it's own pocket.
In fact everyone in europe had a T3-line in 1953, courtesy of the US of A.
Rediculous! And all to simplistic. I'm not saying US funds did not do a lot of good for a lot of countries devastated by WWII, but you sir, have a very inflated sense of how much.
Also note that a lot of the countries in place 1-10 was not included in the marshall plan at all, and that some of them was not hit hard by WWII.
In conclusion, you may have somewhat of a point for Japan and some other countries, but if I were you I would look for other contributing factors too, and not completely overlook the last 50 or so years... (For example: Population density, education, domestic political decisions, BMP, domestic tech intensive industry, government monopolies or the lack thereof, etc.)
Interesting, but...
Isn't this the same Orson Scott Card who told the Homeworld mod community they couldn't make a "Ender's Game" mod to that game?
I realize this isn't the exact same thing, and I am glad he has these refreshing views about copyright and filesharing, but I wish he could extend it to cover fan-art as well.
That said, he is well within his rights to deny them. It's his creation after all, and I guess he should have the final say.
Q) If you know a better (read: more efficient) way to convert heat to electricity on a massive scale, I'd love to hear it.
A) a heluim gas turbine
Damn, guess I should know better than to try being a smartass on/.
What I meant (but didn't say) was a cheap and efficient way. Wouldn't a helium gas turbine be a very expensive on that scale?
Or am I talking out of my ass here?
Yes, except that they are bad for you, and you can only get them out by parting with your cash. (They don't put it that way, but it seems to be what it boils down to.)
One of the weirdest "religions" I ever heard about, that one is...
Hey McB, so you are now endorsing distribution of illegal product while you demand money from those who bought it?
What do you expect from these guys?
Until very recently they themselves were distributing this "illegal" product. This includes after they determined it was "illegal".
Seriously, something seems to be malfunctioning in the US legal system.
These people should, in any sane system, have gotten the same treatments they got from the courts in Germany.
That is: "Put up, or shut up!". Not so unreasonable, is it?
Don't forget the greatest boardgame ever concieved: Junta!
A great game of intrigues and backstabbing in the south american republic of Los Bananas.
Enormously entertaining and fun for all. The trick is that no player can win it on their own steam, you have to intrique and play the others against eachother to profit, but don't be to obvious about it, or they'll gang up and overthrow you.
Beware of whoever wins constantly at this game. That person is likely a sneaky, manipulative bastard you should better keep both your eyes on.;-)
On a sidenote I've noticed that most of the good players I met does well in business.
Not all that surprising I guess...
Sadly this great game is out of print, but if you're lucky you could still get your hands on a copy somwhere.
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When I did my military service i put a 5.56x45mm NATO FMJ from one of these through a 25cm thick pinetree...
But I guess a tree is less compact than stacked paper, so who knows?
Under any circumstances, I would recommend being very careful around firearms.
BTW a thick book will stop even an M-16 5.56 round.
Got to be a really fat book, I guess...
Maybe something with a pagecount like Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past".
The open unemployment rate was around 5% in october 2003.
And, concerning the debt:
- The CIA Worldbook uses old numbers (1994).
- It only counts external debt, not internal.
The total Swedish national debt is 50% of GDP (end of 2002) and currently sinking slowly.It may sound like a lot, but is actually less than the total would have been during the period the CIA Worldbook covers (we had a economic crisis in the early 90's. Since then, the administration has made a point of getting rid of the debt, particulary the external debt.)
If you want something to compare with, the US had at that point (2002) a national debt amounting to 60% of GDP, so the Swedish debt may not be high, but 30% it is (unfortunatly) not.
I'm swedish, and I like living here, but get your facts straight!
Living here is good, that is true, but it is not the utopia you make it out to be.
You are describing Sweden in the 70's, not in the 00's. (Being completely intact after WWII gave us a good head start...)
After a slight crisis in the 90's national debt is up, unemployment is up a bit, and we are over all more on par with other western european countries.
it has been clear in all education on "rules of war" in the Swedish army for the last 20 years at least that there are "combatants" and "illegal combatants" or "bandits". And I have served in the army, so I know.
I, too, served in the Swedish army, and you are both right and wrong...
There exists a distinction between combatants and "bandits". But bandits (or illegal combatants) are criminals, and treated as such.
They are not stuck in a legal limbo, that is what Ashcroft invented.
Simply put, they are either combatants and criminals, there are rules for dealing with both.
Ashcroft just doesn't feel like following the rules, so he makes up an exception...
Many are optimistic that the new Open Source philsophy in the Middle East could one day help bridge the gap between two peoples and lead to peace.
Unless palestinian coders are using emacs, and israeli coders are using vi, that is.
In that case there will never be peace...
Jackson has said he's not been under any pressure from the studio.
;-)
I'm sure he was under severe pressure from the studio to say that...
Actually, Germany beats us on a per capita basis of number of people killed on the roadways. Guess the autobahns aren't such a good idea after all?
What the hell do you expect?
The Autobahn was Hitlers idea.
Something imagined by that man, killing people? Who would've thunk it?
Actually, it seems like the money would be better spent in China, improving the humanitarian and social situation. I'm all for space programs, but a country like China should reconsider its priorities.
Yeah, cause we all know a space program has no positive spin-off effects...
Look at the US if you want examples!
Have you even considered what the space program will do for the chinese economy in general, and the tech-sector in particular?
Sure, china should work on improving the humanitarian and social situation, but that doesn't mean they should do nothing else until they are "done" with that.
The X prize is about re-estiblashing America's dominance.
And all along, I thought it was about putting people into space on a budget...
That's a good thing whoever does it.
Because I can vote the basta^h^h^h^h^h officials out of office here!
Yeah, but I (and >90% of the rest) can't.
There are non-US citizens on the net too, you know.
Let me be the first to embarrass myself to future gamers by saying:
640kb primary memory... i mean 60 fps should be enough for everyone!
War won't diappear if we're afraid to use new tools. People will throw rocks at each other if they have nothing else.
True, but I think we would be better off if people had to fight out their differences with sharpened sea-shells on sticks.
I prefer that to hydrogen bombs...
As I understand it (i might be wrong) their first taikonaut is also a rather famous fighter pilot.
I would guess that him simply vanishing after a launch that allegedly never happened would raise some eybrows...
Wanna bet that this Fortune 500 company did not pay very much for it's "license".
SCO are desperate for some "customers" to make the look good.
I wouldn't be surprised if it whent something like this.
Darl: Hey, you're a big company.
We will license linux to your entire organisation for $1, deal?
Company: Yeah, sure, whatever, Darl. As long as you don't use our name and quit pestering us.
now if you excuse me, I have some business to do. You know, with actual customers, and actual products.
Or it was just Microsoft trying to give SCO some credibility and cash to keep them alive a little bit longer...
I'd like to see Bioware putting out a bugfixed Xbox version, but I figure that's never going to happen.
Actually, it seems like they already did just that.
I own the PAL version of the game (released in europe a few months after the NTSC US-version) and a lot of the bugs (but not all) seems to be fixed.
Bugs or no bugs, it is a great RPG, and you should definitly get it, it's one of the few games wort buying an XBOX for.
(The others, IMHO being HALO, Jet Set/Grind Radio and Deathrow)
Really, we did this. Don't remember names or dates, though.
I really don't know much about the matter, except that the only thing you could have done to make your post even less credible was to post it as an Anonymous Coward.
Keep this up and the other guy don't even have to say anything to win the argument...
Yes the US singlehandedly built Japans and western Europes broadband infrastructure fifty years ago.
And the US took every penny of the cost out of it's own pocket.
In fact everyone in europe had a T3-line in 1953, courtesy of the US of A.
Rediculous! And all to simplistic.
I'm not saying US funds did not do a lot of good for a lot of countries devastated by WWII, but you sir, have a very inflated sense of how much.
Also note that a lot of the countries in place 1-10 was not included in the marshall plan at all, and that some of them was not hit hard by WWII.
In conclusion, you may have somewhat of a point for Japan and some other countries, but if I were you I would look for other contributing factors too, and not completely overlook the last 50 or so years...
(For example: Population density, education, domestic political decisions, BMP, domestic tech intensive industry, government monopolies or the lack thereof, etc.)
Interesting, but...
Isn't this the same Orson Scott Card who told the Homeworld mod community they couldn't make a "Ender's Game" mod to that game?
I realize this isn't the exact same thing, and I am glad he has these refreshing views about copyright and filesharing, but I wish he could extend it to cover fan-art as well.
That said, he is well within his rights to deny them. It's his creation after all, and I guess he should have the final say.
Q) If you know a better (read: more efficient) way to convert heat to electricity on a massive scale, I'd love to hear it.
/.
A) a heluim gas turbine
Damn, guess I should know better than to try being a smartass on
What I meant (but didn't say) was a cheap and efficient way. Wouldn't a helium gas turbine be a very expensive on that scale?
Or am I talking out of my ass here?
Are those the same as those Midichlorians?
Yes, except that they are bad for you, and you can only get them out by parting with your cash.
(They don't put it that way, but it seems to be what it boils down to.)
One of the weirdest "religions" I ever heard about, that one is...
You don't think it's a bit crufty to use the greatest science known to mankind to power a steam engine?
If you know a better (read: more efficient) way to convert heat to electricity on a massive scale, I'd love to hear it.
Face it, the pogo-stick is the best we've got.
Make do.
Hey McB, so you are now endorsing distribution of illegal product while you demand money from those who bought it?
What do you expect from these guys?
Until very recently they themselves were distributing this "illegal" product. This includes after they determined it was "illegal".
Seriously, something seems to be malfunctioning in the US legal system.
These people should, in any sane system, have gotten the same treatments they got from the courts in Germany.
That is: "Put up, or shut up!".
Not so unreasonable, is it?
These people must be bored if they play games in a console. I mean, how long can you stare at an xterm window with ASCII characters?
You have obviously never played Nethack, my friend...
Don't forget the greatest boardgame ever concieved: Junta!
;-)
A great game of intrigues and backstabbing in the south american republic of Los Bananas.
Enormously entertaining and fun for all. The trick is that no player can win it on their own steam, you have to intrique and play the others against eachother to profit, but don't be to obvious about it, or they'll gang up and overthrow you.
Beware of whoever wins constantly at this game. That person is likely a sneaky, manipulative bastard you should better keep both your eyes on.
On a sidenote I've noticed that most of the good players I met does well in business.
Not all that surprising I guess...
Sadly this great game is out of print, but if you're lucky you could still get your hands on a copy somwhere.