no such vote has ever been scheduled, because there's not enough Senate support for the treaty.
Misleading Clinton signed it, knowing that the Senate would never ratify it. The Senate voted on whether they should vote to ratify it (Byrd-Hollings, SRes 98, June 12, 1997), and shot it down 95-0.
Why they did this?
"Whereas the exemption for Developing Country Parties is inconsistent with the need for global action on climate change and is environmentally flawed; and
Whereas the Senate strongly believes that the proposals under negotiation, because of the disparity of treatment between Annex I Parties and Developing Countries and the level of required emission reductions, could result in serious harm to the United States economy, including significant job loss, trade disadvantages, increased energy and consumer costs, or any combination thereof: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that--
(1) the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol to, or other agreement regarding, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992, at negotiations in Kyoto in December 1997, or thereafter, which would--
Oh, the ABM system has been tested all right.
It failed the tests. No reason to slow down pouring the concrete and buying the interceptor missles, though. All you'll have to do is pay the contractor more to fix them once they've worked out the bugs.
No. It has failed some of the tests, so far. That doesn't mean it can't or won't ever be a viable system.
Does every system you build work perfectly, every time, at every stage? No. That's why they call it testing.
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My son just did one of these for a science project. SciToys has a good description for one, and source for the neodymium-iron-boron magnets. BEWARE! These magnets are exceedingly strong and fragile. They WILL jump out of your hand and smack together, often cracking one. Due to this fragility, there is an upper limit on number of magnets and speed. Too many, and the ball bearings will go too fast and crack the magnets.
To placate the handwringers, we called it a 'Linear Accelerator' instead of a railgun or Gauss Rifle. Can't have those dangerous 'weapons' in school.
Simplistic nuclear balistic capabilities and advanced ICBM nuclear warheads are seperated by quite a large skill level in design and deployment.
Launching a missile at intercontinental distances, especially with any accuracy, is out of the question except for a very few countries. US/UK/Russia/France/maybe China in a few years. Shorter range (100-200 miles) is a different story.
And smuggling one into the country is quite another. How much of the drug trade from South America is intercepted? 10%?
My point being that I think they could get away with a small bomb, but if they were planning to launch one at us... KaBooooM right into the ocean. We have more sattelites than anyone:)
And we're going to intercept it with what? The ABM system that isn't tested or built yet?
hey, just a few days ago a court sent to prison a 13 year old who killed his grandparents because zoloft made him flip
No, he and his lawyer claimed that Zoloft made him 'flip out'. The judge decided that was BS.
if a 13 year old gets nailed while on a doctor prescribed drug, who is going to give a 12 year old a break who is in their right state of mind?
That's what judges are for. To look at all the relevant facts in a case, and sentence accordingly. Facts that we, the general public, are not privy to.
So you give it a fancy name; escapism. Having a name doesn't make the acivity being represented (beating women, shooting cops, etc) right.
The original question still stands. What kind of person finds pleasure in those kinds of activities, even if it is only a representation of that activity?
Quite a lot of people. The vast majority of action, horror, and suspense movies are the same. Silent movies...the damsel in distress tied to the railroad tracks, ready to be squished. Hell...we could go back to Romeo and Juliet. Ritualized suicide and gangland murder. You think a couple of hundred years ago, a valid murder defense would have been "Shakespeare made me do it!", because he saw the play too many times? Bah.
This same danger exists with porn. You've got predators out there that find themselves no longer satisfied with looking at pictures. We just had a sicko arrested here in Albuquerque as he was planning a trip down to Mexico to gain access to children.
And? You think that same thing hasn't been happening for centuries? You've evidently missed the whole catholic priest thing that's been going on. I'm not saying GTA is a good game, with positive moral values. Far from it. But these types of depictions have been going on for centuries. This is nothing new.
What's wrong with people that they think a game that allows you to beat up women, shoot cops and steal cars is fun?
People also think a game that allows - taking a rocket launcher and shooting someone in the face is 'fun' - taking a broadsword and hacking off an opponents arm is 'fun'. - driving at triple digits on public roads is 'fun'. - building a rollercoaster that is designed to crash is 'fun'. - having a giant ape throw boulders at you is 'fun'.
I know what you're saying. But I would fight this tooth and nail, until there was nothing left. And if I/we lost that particular fight, a different school district would be in order. Seriously.
Every part on a car would need to be tested for strength, width, height, depth, shape, mass, the connections holding it to another part, and that bolt tested
hmmm....I think those parameters already exist. Like in the mfr's CAD/CAM system.
Road type, amount of friction, temperature, slope, etc
These are known quantities as well. The only real variable of those is temperature, and that can be found within a very few degrees.
Now...should these simulations be used for specific, down to the millimeter recreation of what happened in a chaotic crash? No, but you CAN get a broad visualization of events. Is a drawing on a whiteboard somehow better?
i have a copy of windows... i have a cd key... i sell it to you and then you use the same key to install the software...even though you paid for it. its still not legit.
Totally, completely, utterly wrong. From the XP Pro EULA: Transfer to Third Party. The initial user of the Product may make a one-time transfer of the Product to another end user. The transfer has to include all component parts, media, printed materials, this EULA, and if applicable, the Certificate of Authenticity. The transfer may not be an indirect transfer, such as a consignment. Prior to the transfer, the end user receiving the transferred Product must agree to all the EULA terms.
"metropolitan area wireless networking" could be wireless metropolitan area network, being WMAN.
I can't think of something off hand to add an "O". Oh well.
Not at all. Not liking this particular treaty does not mean that the US should not or is not reducing emissions.
Additionally, through the concept of selling credits, the US and other countries could be forced into simply giving money to countries that already are and were below their target number, and have no need to actually do anything else.
You've got the problem wrong. "Developing' countries are complying, in the manner set down in the treaty. For instance, under the terms of the treaty, China and India do not have to cut any emissions until 2012. It's like running a marathon, but the rules say that the 2nd and 3rd fastest guys are given an automatic 5 mile head start. They're just playing by the rules.
By virtue of having a SSN aand a matching name, you can then generate other types of ID. Drivers license, birth certificate. Having those, you can generate a history. You can get anything. You can be anyone.
Show me where the Clinton administration said "We know where the WMD is", or listed the specific amounts of material that Saddam "had".
" In 1995, Hussein Kamal, Saddam's son-in-law, and the chief organizer of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program, defected to Jordan. He revealed that Iraq was continuing to conceal weapons and missiles and the capacity to build many more.
Then and only then did Iraq admit to developing numbers of weapons in significant quantities and weapon stocks. Previously, it had vehemently denied the very thing it just simply admitted once Saddam Hussein's son-in-law defected to Jordan and told the truth. Now listen to this, what did it admit?
It admitted, among other things, an offensive biological warfare capability notably 5,000 gallons of botulinum, which causes botulism; 2,000 gallons of anthrax; 25 biological-filled Scud warheads; and 157 aerial bombs.
And I might say UNSCOM inspectors believe that Iraq has actually greatly understated its production.
As if we needed further confirmation, you all know what happened to his son-in-law when he made the untimely decision to go back to Iraq. " Speech to the JCS - Feb 17, 1998
"Iraq has failed to provide a credible explanation for UNSCOM tests that found anthrax in fragments of seven SCUD missile warheads. Iraq has been claiming since 1995 that it put anthrax in only five such warheads, and had previously denied weaponizing anthrax at all. Iraq's explanations to date are far from satisfactory, although it now acknowledges putting both anthrax and botulinum toxin into some number of warheads.
Iraq's biological weapons (BW) program, including SCUD missile BW warheads, R-400 BW bombs, drop-tanks to be filled with BW, spray devices for BW, production of BW agents (anthrax, botulinum toxin, aflatoxin, and wheat cover smut), and BW agent growth media, remains the "black hole" described by Ambassador Butler. Iraq has consistently failed to provide a credible account of its efforts to produce and weaponize its BW agents. " Presidential Letter to Congress on Iraq - Nov 6, 1998
"Dear Mr. Speaker: (Mr. President:)
Consistent with the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution (Public Law 102-1) and as part of my effort to keep the Congress fully informed, I am reporting on the status of efforts to obtain Iraq's compliance with the resolutions adopted by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). My last report, consistent with Public Law 102-1, was transmitted on December 18, 1998.
In a January 25, 1999, report to the U.N. Security Council President, UNSCOM identified as a priority chemical weapons disarmament issues: VX, the 155mm mustard shells; the Iraqi Air Force file of chemical weapons documents; R-400 bombs filled with CBW (field inspections needed); and chemical weapons production equipment (field verification is needed for 18 of 20 shipping containers UNSCOM knows were moved together). On monitoring, the report identified as priorities the ability to verify Iraqi compliance at listed facilities and to detect construction of new dual-use facilities.
In its January 25, 1999, report to the U.N. Security Council President, UNSCOM identified the following as priority missile disarmament issues: 50 unaccounted SCUD conventional warheads; 500 tons of SCUD propellants, the destruction of which has not been verified; 7 Iraqi-produced SCUDs given to the army, the destruction of which cannot be verified; truckloads of major components for SCUD production that are missing; the concealment of BW warheads; and the lack of accounting for VX-filled war-heads. The report identified as priorities the capability to monitor declared activities, leaps in missile technology, and changes to declared operational missiles. There are 80 listed missile sites." Presidential L
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Misleading .
Clinton signed it, knowing that the Senate would never ratify it. The Senate voted on whether they should vote to ratify it (Byrd-Hollings, SRes 98, June 12, 1997), and shot it down 95-0
Why they did this?
"Whereas the exemption for Developing Country Parties is inconsistent with the need for global action on climate change and is environmentally flawed; and
Whereas the Senate strongly believes that the proposals under negotiation, because of the disparity of treatment between Annex I Parties and Developing Countries and the level of required emission reductions, could result in serious harm to the United States economy, including significant job loss, trade disadvantages, increased energy and consumer costs, or any combination thereof: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that--
(1) the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol to, or other agreement regarding, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992, at negotiations in Kyoto in December 1997, or thereafter, which would--
It failed the tests. No reason to slow down pouring the concrete and buying the interceptor missles, though. All you'll have to do is pay the contractor more to fix them once they've worked out the bugs.
No. It has failed some of the tests, so far. That doesn't mean it can't or won't ever be a viable system.
Does every system you build work perfectly, every time, at every stage? No. That's why they call it testing.
BEWARE! These magnets are exceedingly strong and fragile. They WILL jump out of your hand and smack together, often cracking one. Due to this fragility, there is an upper limit on number of magnets and speed. Too many, and the ball bearings will go too fast and crack the magnets.
To placate the handwringers, we called it a 'Linear Accelerator' instead of a railgun or Gauss Rifle. Can't have those dangerous 'weapons' in school.
Launching a missile at intercontinental distances, especially with any accuracy, is out of the question except for a very few countries. US/UK/Russia/France/maybe China in a few years. Shorter range (100-200 miles) is a different story.
And smuggling one into the country is quite another. How much of the drug trade from South America is intercepted? 10%?
My point being that I think they could get away with a small bomb, but if they were planning to launch one at us... KaBooooM right into the ocean. We have more sattelites than anyone :)
And we're going to intercept it with what? The ABM system that isn't tested or built yet?
No, he and his lawyer claimed that Zoloft made him 'flip out'. The judge decided that was BS.
if a 13 year old gets nailed while on a doctor prescribed drug, who is going to give a 12 year old a break who is in their right state of mind?
That's what judges are for. To look at all the relevant facts in a case, and sentence accordingly. Facts that we, the general public, are not privy to.
No, but Make actually tells/shows you how to do something, instead of simply screaming at you to RTFM.
The original question still stands. What kind of person finds pleasure in those kinds of activities, even if it is only a representation of that activity?
Quite a lot of people. The vast majority of action, horror, and suspense movies are the same. Silent movies...the damsel in distress tied to the railroad tracks, ready to be squished. Hell...we could go back to Romeo and Juliet. Ritualized suicide and gangland murder. You think a couple of hundred years ago, a valid murder defense would have been "Shakespeare made me do it!", because he saw the play too many times? Bah.
This same danger exists with porn. You've got predators out there that find themselves no longer satisfied with looking at pictures. We just had a sicko arrested here in Albuquerque as he was planning a trip down to Mexico to gain access to children.
And? You think that same thing hasn't been happening for centuries? You've evidently missed the whole catholic priest thing that's been going on. I'm not saying GTA is a good game, with positive moral values. Far from it. But these types of depictions have been going on for centuries. This is nothing new.
People also think a game that allows
- taking a rocket launcher and shooting someone in the face is 'fun'
- taking a broadsword and hacking off an opponents arm is 'fun'.
- driving at triple digits on public roads is 'fun'.
- building a rollercoaster that is designed to crash is 'fun'.
- having a giant ape throw boulders at you is 'fun'.
Games are escapism. Deal with it.
I know what you're saying. But I would fight this tooth and nail, until there was nothing left. And if I/we lost that particular fight, a different school district would be in order.
Seriously.
hmmm....I think those parameters already exist. Like in the mfr's CAD/CAM system.
Road type, amount of friction, temperature, slope, etc
These are known quantities as well. The only real variable of those is temperature, and that can be found within a very few degrees.
Now...should these simulations be used for specific, down to the millimeter recreation of what happened in a chaotic crash? No, but you CAN get a broad visualization of events. Is a drawing on a whiteboard somehow better?
I'd be right with the ones who vow to keep this out of their school. No way, no how, not ever.
Totally, completely, utterly wrong.
From the XP Pro EULA:
Transfer to Third Party. The initial user of the Product may make a one-time transfer of the Product to another end user. The transfer has to include all component parts, media, printed materials, this EULA, and if applicable, the Certificate of Authenticity. The transfer may not be an indirect transfer, such as a consignment. Prior to the transfer, the end user receiving the transferred Product must agree to all the EULA terms.
At the current rate of growth, China is expected to surpass the US in emissions output by 2030.
The solution is to become 'one of them'. Subvert from the inside.
I can't think of something off hand to add an "O". Oh well.
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You're barking up the wrong president. The Senate under Clinton, did not (and was not asked to) ratify the treaty.
And according to this report, you and your fellow Canadians may be paying $2700 annually per household.
Additionally, through the concept of selling credits, the US and other countries could be forced into simply giving money to countries that already are and were below their target number, and have no need to actually do anything else.
Fair?
It goes against the /. groupthink. Don't worry. Not all of us feel that way.
For 2 things:
1) Clearance to do this
2) Assuming 1) is OK, recommendations on local connections.
By virtue of having a SSN aand a matching name, you can then generate other types of ID. Drivers license, birth certificate. Having those, you can generate a history. You can get anything. You can be anyone.
" In 1995, Hussein Kamal, Saddam's son-in-law, and the chief organizer of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program, defected to Jordan. He revealed that Iraq was continuing to conceal weapons and missiles and the capacity to build many more.
Then and only then did Iraq admit to developing numbers of weapons in significant quantities and weapon stocks. Previously, it had vehemently denied the very thing it just simply admitted once Saddam Hussein's son-in-law defected to Jordan and told the truth. Now listen to this, what did it admit?
It admitted, among other things, an offensive biological warfare capability notably 5,000 gallons of botulinum, which causes botulism; 2,000 gallons of anthrax; 25 biological-filled Scud warheads; and 157 aerial bombs.
And I might say UNSCOM inspectors believe that Iraq has actually greatly understated its production.
As if we needed further confirmation, you all know what happened to his son-in-law when he made the untimely decision to go back to Iraq. "
Speech to the JCS - Feb 17, 1998
"Iraq has failed to provide a credible explanation for UNSCOM tests that found anthrax in fragments of seven SCUD missile warheads. Iraq has been claiming since 1995 that it put anthrax in only five such warheads, and had previously denied weaponizing anthrax at all. Iraq's explanations to date are far from satisfactory, although it now acknowledges putting both anthrax and botulinum toxin into some number of warheads.
Iraq's biological weapons (BW) program, including SCUD missile BW warheads, R-400 BW bombs, drop-tanks to be filled with BW, spray devices for BW, production of BW agents (anthrax, botulinum toxin, aflatoxin, and wheat cover smut), and BW agent growth media, remains the "black hole" described by Ambassador Butler. Iraq has consistently failed to provide a credible account of its efforts to produce and weaponize its BW agents. "
Presidential Letter to Congress on Iraq - Nov 6, 1998
"Dear Mr. Speaker: (Mr. President:) Consistent with the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution (Public Law 102-1) and as part of my effort to keep the Congress fully informed, I am reporting on the status of efforts to obtain Iraq's compliance with the resolutions adopted by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). My last report, consistent with Public Law 102-1, was transmitted on December 18, 1998.
In a January 25, 1999, report to the U.N. Security Council President, UNSCOM identified as a priority chemical weapons disarmament issues: VX, the 155mm mustard shells; the Iraqi Air Force file of chemical weapons documents; R-400 bombs filled with CBW (field inspections needed); and chemical weapons production equipment (field verification is needed for 18 of 20 shipping containers UNSCOM knows were moved together). On monitoring, the report identified as priorities the ability to verify Iraqi compliance at listed facilities and to detect construction of new dual-use facilities.
In its January 25, 1999, report to the U.N. Security Council President, UNSCOM identified the following as priority missile disarmament issues: 50 unaccounted SCUD conventional warheads; 500 tons of SCUD propellants, the destruction of which has not been verified; 7 Iraqi-produced SCUDs given to the army, the destruction of which cannot be verified; truckloads of major components for SCUD production that are missing; the concealment of BW warheads; and the lack of accounting for VX-filled war-heads. The report identified as priorities the capability to monitor declared activities, leaps in missile technology, and changes to declared operational missiles. There are 80 listed missile sites."
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I owould think that a passport would be a valid alternative.
Why would Florida and Maryland issue you a drivers license with an address in Virginia?
So because the US is considering instituting what amounts to a national ID card, you're going to move to Canada? That's about dumb.