I have some bad news for you. The US government promises that the prisoners get to pray 5 times a day, but that's not true. Read James Yee's book, he worked there for years. Ask some of the ex-detainees.
Also, it wasn't a prionser who flushed a Quran. The other inmates would have lynched him anyway. The allegation was that a guard did it, and numerous inmates both inside and released agree on that. According to the US military report, a guard did splash urine on a detainee's Quran, but claimed he was pissing outside and the wind somehow blew it into a detainee's cell and onto his book. After the detainee nicely complained, the administration bought him a fresh new book. If you believe the story, I imagine they even smiled and offered to pray with him./snark
How are they suddenly credible? Simple, we have FBI reports and ex-interrogator accounts, and former guards who all seem to repeat the same actions and events.
How does nobody believe that? The US has Chinese people in Guantanamo, and arrested German and Bosnian citizens and moved them to "Black sites." How much more likely is this man to face that?
No, it's a sign to Muslims that America is going to profile people based on religion. They've threatened Muslims like the Lackawanna Six and John Walker Lindh with Guantanamo without trial, unless they pleaded guilty (because there wasn't enough proof to prosecute in an actual trial). In the meantime, how come Dr. Goldstein, a Florida man involved with the JDL who tried to blow up a mosque, wasn't tried under the same Patriot Act laws?
The US released hundreds of inmates from Guantanamo once they found they were innocent, and by most accounts there are plenty more innocent inside.
Please show me where I said America is responsible for guerilla attacks.
Meh, Al Jazeera is not that bad. Ever actually watched it or read it? Please tell me your criterion for your judgement and how you're not just copying what Fox News says.
As for Juan Cole's post, that day's post was a JOKE. Did you read past it?
If you still believe Baghdad is safer that America, please go over and tell me how safe you feel. The Samarra bombing is estimated to have killed 1000 nationwide, and I doubt I'll be able to convince you by now.
Yes, Dan Rather screwed up, so you're saying don't trust ANY expert. Ignorance is bliss eh? I'm not going by experts then, I'm going by ordinary Iraqi civillians who post their outrage online, or Arabic-speaking journalists. If you are so against Al Jazeera, try American reporter Anthony Shadid then.
Before the invasion, Iraqis had a full electricity and water supply. Some Iraqi bloggers talked about how upset many people are that they had to trade their electricity, water, gasoline, and phones for a new government. There was a loss of infrastructure in 2003, but it was generally repaired by 2004, and then sabotaged by guerillas in 2004-2005. Iraqis are mad that their resources are now as bad as the Invasion levels. The gas shortage only happened in 2005 as guerillas stopped convoys of gasoline to Baghdad and attacked refineries.
If you haven't been hearing about the dozens of deaths reported per day, then I'm afraid you've been watching the American media (and why are they so lax about Iraqi deaths and report the American ones more?). Go read Al Jazeera or watch Mosaic TV. The death toll from the suicide bombing at a mosque has now reached 80, and there have been recent mass graves found of people killed this year, not to mention the dozens of Sunnis found executed or the dozens of Shia killed in a similiar fashion, or the outrage when the US bombed a Shia mosque. If you're finding it hard to keep up with these events, I'd recommend Informed Comment (voted best expert blog).
In the first Gulf war, Saddam Hussein's forces tried to defend against missiles by firing into the air and creating a "wall of steel." I suppose this is more precise?
Iraq Body Count lists at least 34,000 confirmed deaths minimum since the March 2003 invasion. They're about the lowest estimate, and their maximum confirmation is closer to 38,000. UK Journal The Lancet indicated (prior to the Fallujah, Tal Afar, and Samarra bombings) that the death toll could be closer to 100,000 deaths.
CNN's 1999 article on murder rates put a New York City all-time high of 2,262 murders in 1990. In 1997, the USA murder rate was 18,209 murders for the year nationwide.
I'm surprised we have to argue the definition of catastrophe. Iraqi bloggers are saying how Baghdad has only a few hours of electricity a day and that there's an actual gas shortage due to guerilla attacks. Iyad Allawi, the pro-American former appointed PM, has declared it's a civil war, and cited the dozens of bodies turning up every morning with execution-style killings. The US has uncovered Ministry of the Interior secret prisons and torture rooms by the new Iraqi government, and Sunni and Shi'ite death squads are picking off both sides. It's bad.
Your logic makes sense. However, Tenet said "Slam Dunk." By your standard, he should have been fired or given a walk of shame post-election. Instead he got a Medal.
You have a right to believe what you want. I'm reading Juan Cole, and things are turning out pretty awful. The Iraqi death toll is catastrophic, and this will hurt America for at least 2 decades, assuming it fixes itself immediately, which I doubt.
Some of the features are that you can automate a login to all the Macs on your network and run an installer once to all the machines, or send UNIX commands to all the systems at once, or do a Network Spotlight search on all the machines, or send text messages to all the networked machines. Plenty more, please read the article.
Anyone remember the episode of the TV Show Get Smart? Control spends a million dollars building a robotic fly for infiltration and spying, and Max comes in and smashes it with a newspaper.
If the intelligence world is so complex, how come Bush didn't fire anyone? He gave George Tenet a medal! Look at the Downing Street memo, et al. I can almost guarantee that when Bush was handed the final report about there being no WMDs, he shrugged and lost interest.
I imagine it's because we can't make the wires small enough to attach to individual nerves yet. The electrodes might as well be thumb-sized for all they're worth, they hit a bunch of nerves at once, which I suspect is why we only have 16x16 vision yet.
I don't think Apple is why Microsoft avoids prosecution. Linux is also a competitor. Microsoft got punished by the US Justice department for its underhanded tactics of Microsoft Office, IE, and WMP on Windows.
That was a possibility, but Apple will not bundle Windows in with their Macs. Apple also doesn't have X11 or developer tools installed by default, so developers can't be lazy; ie. "Just compile it from the command line and run it in X11, I'm not going to port it to Mac."
Some developers will be lazy and just keep running Windows-only apps, but there's already a plethora of Mac apps too, like Office, FileMaker Pro, Photoshop, business apps, etc.
While this is a legitimate concern, Apple refused to bundle X11 or Developer tools with the OEM systems in the past for that same reason. After a little time, the threat of not porting X11 apps to OS X declined.
There are already Mac apps for the office, MS Office, Photoshop, Quark, etc. People aren't going to load Windows just for that. Maybe the gaming market will go for the Windows partition, but who knows.
Funny enough, Ars Technica reviewed an iPod nano, and dropped it from 9 feet onto concrete. It damaged, but didn't kill the iPod. They had to run it over with a car, and then amazingly enough, drop it some more, before it stopped playing the song.
Trademark law doesn't have an issue with different companies with the same name, in different fields. That's why you can have an Apple Computer, an Apple Records, and an Apple Insurance, and an Appleby's restaurant.
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I have some bad news for you. The US government promises that the prisoners get to pray 5 times a day, but that's not true. Read James Yee's book, he worked there for years. Ask some of the ex-detainees.
/snark
Also, it wasn't a prionser who flushed a Quran. The other inmates would have lynched him anyway. The allegation was that a guard did it, and numerous inmates both inside and released agree on that. According to the US military report, a guard did splash urine on a detainee's Quran, but claimed he was pissing outside and the wind somehow blew it into a detainee's cell and onto his book. After the detainee nicely complained, the administration bought him a fresh new book. If you believe the story, I imagine they even smiled and offered to pray with him.
Yes, but Condileeza Rice seems to avoid that point. Her answer appeared to be, We ask them and if they say no, we ship them off.
How are they suddenly credible? Simple, we have FBI reports and ex-interrogator accounts, and former guards who all seem to repeat the same actions and events.
How does nobody believe that? The US has Chinese people in Guantanamo, and arrested German and Bosnian citizens and moved them to "Black sites." How much more likely is this man to face that?
No, it's a sign to Muslims that America is going to profile people based on religion. They've threatened Muslims like the Lackawanna Six and John Walker Lindh with Guantanamo without trial, unless they pleaded guilty (because there wasn't enough proof to prosecute in an actual trial). In the meantime, how come Dr. Goldstein, a Florida man involved with the JDL who tried to blow up a mosque, wasn't tried under the same Patriot Act laws?
The US released hundreds of inmates from Guantanamo once they found they were innocent, and by most accounts there are plenty more innocent inside.
Please show me where I said America is responsible for guerilla attacks.
Meh, Al Jazeera is not that bad. Ever actually watched it or read it? Please tell me your criterion for your judgement and how you're not just copying what Fox News says.
As for Juan Cole's post, that day's post was a JOKE. Did you read past it?
If you still believe Baghdad is safer that America, please go over and tell me how safe you feel. The Samarra bombing is estimated to have killed 1000 nationwide, and I doubt I'll be able to convince you by now.
Yes, Dan Rather screwed up, so you're saying don't trust ANY expert. Ignorance is bliss eh? I'm not going by experts then, I'm going by ordinary Iraqi civillians who post their outrage online, or Arabic-speaking journalists. If you are so against Al Jazeera, try American reporter Anthony Shadid then.
If you haven't been hearing about the dozens of deaths reported per day, then I'm afraid you've been watching the American media (and why are they so lax about Iraqi deaths and report the American ones more?). Go read Al Jazeera or watch Mosaic TV. The death toll from the suicide bombing at a mosque has now reached 80, and there have been recent mass graves found of people killed this year, not to mention the dozens of Sunnis found executed or the dozens of Shia killed in a similiar fashion, or the outrage when the US bombed a Shia mosque. If you're finding it hard to keep up with these events, I'd recommend Informed Comment (voted best expert blog).
In the first Gulf war, Saddam Hussein's forces tried to defend against missiles by firing into the air and creating a "wall of steel." I suppose this is more precise?
CNN's 1999 article on murder rates put a New York City all-time high of 2,262 murders in 1990. In 1997, the USA murder rate was 18,209 murders for the year nationwide.
I'm surprised we have to argue the definition of catastrophe. Iraqi bloggers are saying how Baghdad has only a few hours of electricity a day and that there's an actual gas shortage due to guerilla attacks. Iyad Allawi, the pro-American former appointed PM, has declared it's a civil war, and cited the dozens of bodies turning up every morning with execution-style killings. The US has uncovered Ministry of the Interior secret prisons and torture rooms by the new Iraqi government, and Sunni and Shi'ite death squads are picking off both sides. It's bad.
Your logic makes sense. However, Tenet said "Slam Dunk." By your standard, he should have been fired or given a walk of shame post-election. Instead he got a Medal.
You have a right to believe what you want. I'm reading Juan Cole, and things are turning out pretty awful. The Iraqi death toll is catastrophic, and this will hurt America for at least 2 decades, assuming it fixes itself immediately, which I doubt.
Some of the features are that you can automate a login to all the Macs on your network and run an installer once to all the machines, or send UNIX commands to all the systems at once, or do a Network Spotlight search on all the machines, or send text messages to all the networked machines. Plenty more, please read the article.
Apple Remote Desktop 3 was released. Version 2 already works with Mac OS X. Besides, the GP was talking about Vista.
Anyone remember the episode of the TV Show Get Smart? Control spends a million dollars building a robotic fly for infiltration and spying, and Max comes in and smashes it with a newspaper.
You're dodging or downplaying the question. Doesn't it seem obvious that he would have to fire some advisors if the war turned out to be ill-advised?
If the intelligence world is so complex, how come Bush didn't fire anyone? He gave George Tenet a medal! Look at the Downing Street memo, et al. I can almost guarantee that when Bush was handed the final report about there being no WMDs, he shrugged and lost interest.
I imagine it's because we can't make the wires small enough to attach to individual nerves yet. The electrodes might as well be thumb-sized for all they're worth, they hit a bunch of nerves at once, which I suspect is why we only have 16x16 vision yet.
I don't think Apple is why Microsoft avoids prosecution. Linux is also a competitor. Microsoft got punished by the US Justice department for its underhanded tactics of Microsoft Office, IE, and WMP on Windows.
That was a possibility, but Apple will not bundle Windows in with their Macs. Apple also doesn't have X11 or developer tools installed by default, so developers can't be lazy; ie. "Just compile it from the command line and run it in X11, I'm not going to port it to Mac."
Some developers will be lazy and just keep running Windows-only apps, but there's already a plethora of Mac apps too, like Office, FileMaker Pro, Photoshop, business apps, etc.
Wasn't this a joke someone made trying to imitate Bush at the Jeff Foxworthy Roast on Comedy Central?
While this is a legitimate concern, Apple refused to bundle X11 or Developer tools with the OEM systems in the past for that same reason. After a little time, the threat of not porting X11 apps to OS X declined.
There are already Mac apps for the office, MS Office, Photoshop, Quark, etc. People aren't going to load Windows just for that. Maybe the gaming market will go for the Windows partition, but who knows.
Plus it was reported that Apple Computer got its name after a joke around the term "byte."
Funny enough, Ars Technica reviewed an iPod nano, and dropped it from 9 feet onto concrete. It damaged, but didn't kill the iPod. They had to run it over with a car, and then amazingly enough, drop it some more, before it stopped playing the song.
Thus, you could also get an iPod nano, or even an iPod shuffle.
I'm sure Apple Insurance would disagree with you.
Trademark law doesn't have an issue with different companies with the same name, in different fields. That's why you can have an Apple Computer, an Apple Records, and an Apple Insurance, and an Appleby's restaurant.