The reason not to build on top of the rubble is that all the rubble has to be loaded up and hauled away, both to get it out of the way to facilitate the search for survivors (admittedly an almost non-existant possibility at this point) and intact corpses, and for it to be searched for personal effects and body parts, plus whatever forensic evidence might be recoverable (admittedly probably not much), so the rubble won't be there anymore. It'll be over on Staten Island under guard.
Also, what you are suggesting amounts to building it on top of the bodies of the unrecovered dead, bodies that a lot of families wish to have returned to them for proper burial.
This raises another point. Not all of the pieces of all of the victims will ever be recovered, and the site is literally soaked in the blood of thousands. To me there is something just plain wrong about rebuilding a commercial venture on, as Lincoln referred to Gettysburg, "this hallowed ground". Perhaps I'd feel differently if I were a New Yorker, and I don't blame them for wanting to erect new symbols of defiance and pride, but I'd suggest a memorial park with a simple structure in the middle inscribed "never again".
A company where almost everybody shows up late for work and they didn't have off-site back-up and they come out of this smelling like a rose--it's practically un-Darwinian.
I don't know how much stuff was on paper only, and not stored in binary somewhere, but I wonder about the problems caused by paper copies of personal financial information falling (in this case practically literally) into the wrong hands.
"...assuming of course that a smoker doesn't get me with second hand smoke first..."
Now there's a devious terrorist plot for you. Send hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of dedicated followers over here to give their lives not in an instant in an explosion, but slowly, stealthily, by lung cancer, heart disease, and emphysema, in order to spread the same via second-hand smoke to countless others. Would we ever even suspect a thing until it was too late if we didn't spot bin Laden going long in tobacco companies?
"...sooner or later some nut-case will kill someone out of some sick need for revenge."
Already happening. Some guy from India who was a Sikh and therefore about as Muslim as the Pope got shot 3 or 4 days ago just for wearing a turban by some idiot who probably couldn't tell an Ethiopian from an Armenian from an Italian from George Hamilton in the middle of tanning season.
Search eBay and the surplus dealers for a keyboard with Spanish characters so they can put the upside down punctuation marks at the front of a sentence and the squiggly thing on top of the "N". And some other letter, I think.
Especially considering that there are more than 10 million land mines there. Ten per cent of all the land mines in the world. Enough to cause as many civilian casualties every year as the number of deaths caused by the WTC and Pentagon crashes.
Read this and ask yourself if we have enough EOD people to do the job before the turn of the next century.
The above is the best solution proposed so far, provided that your motherboard actually has the traces for the -5V bus. If the power supply doesn't provide that voltage, they may have decided to save a little money by not including it. Does this beast use a standard power supply to motherboard connector--AT or ATX type?--or something proprietary?
"I don't think I would have ever even imagined people doing something that low, had I not seen prank bomb threats called in the next day. Those people are the ones who deserve to be buried alive under thousands of tons of concrete."
Better yet, sent to an alternate universe where Osama bin Laden rules the kind of world he has in mind.
Actually the reports are that fighter planes were scrambled but were still 70 miles away when the airliners hit. Probably the fighters had been sent up to investigate after air traffic controllers had figured out that something was wrong, but at that point the real purpose of the hijackings probably wasn't known or suspected.
By the time enough red tape had been cut through to get permission or instructions to the fighters to actually shoot down a civilian airliner it would probably have been too late even if the fighters had already been circling the towers and the Pentagon.
I'd like to hear if anything more came of reports mentioned once or twice late Tuesday/early Wednesday that some witnesses reported a smaller plane following the one that hit the Pentagon.
Perhaps someone who knows more about airplanes than do I could offer an opinion as to whether a fight over the controls of the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania or some deliberate sabotage by the airline's pilot or other aircrew member could have resulted in damage of some sort to the wing that would have sent it plummeting to the ground without any need for outside intervention?
What advertising revenue? From their web site maybe? They are losing millions of dollars a day.
The problem with a story such as this (or the Gulf War) is that it can't be packaged into easily managed episodes with commercial slots as though it were "Friends" or "All My Children" or whatever gets ratings these days.
Bin Laden doesn't care about Iraq. He wants to take over Saudi Arabia and subject it to his version of Islam. He's got a wild hair up his rear about some mosque in Mecca. He saw what we did to protect our supply of oil from Kuwait and knows what we'd do to protect our supply from Saudi Arabia.
And of course he views the mere presence in Saudi Arabia of any of us unclean infidels with the occasional impure thought as the vilest blasphemy (and co-incidentally an aid, because we are there to do business with them, trading our wealth for their petroleum, to the current rulers of Saudi Arabia who he wishes to overthrow).
So between his religious mania and desire for political power, he finds it desireable to get us out of the way and cripple us so badly that we can't interfere with him, and we make a handy point of focus for his irrational rage as well.
Just because he doesn't care about Irag and Saddam doesn't mean he isn't willing to make use of them, though, if he thinks it'll further his aims.
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That's C the triad, not the programming language. Whose stuff from the Seattle area do you like better, The Ventures, or Microsoft? Hmm?
Also, what you are suggesting amounts to building it on top of the bodies of the unrecovered dead, bodies that a lot of families wish to have returned to them for proper burial.
This raises another point. Not all of the pieces of all of the victims will ever be recovered, and the site is literally soaked in the blood of thousands. To me there is something just plain wrong about rebuilding a commercial venture on, as Lincoln referred to Gettysburg, "this hallowed ground". Perhaps I'd feel differently if I were a New Yorker, and I don't blame them for wanting to erect new symbols of defiance and pride, but I'd suggest a memorial park with a simple structure in the middle inscribed "never again".
That's alright, so are some of the Sircam emails that I get.
I don't know how much stuff was on paper only, and not stored in binary somewhere, but I wonder about the problems caused by paper copies of personal financial information falling (in this case practically literally) into the wrong hands.
The way I heard it everything down there is gray right now. They're calling it "Moondust".
Now there's a devious terrorist plot for you. Send hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of dedicated followers over here to give their lives not in an instant in an explosion, but slowly, stealthily, by lung cancer, heart disease, and emphysema, in order to spread the same via second-hand smoke to countless others. Would we ever even suspect a thing until it was too late if we didn't spot bin Laden going long in tobacco companies?
Already happening. Some guy from India who was a Sikh and therefore about as Muslim as the Pope got shot 3 or 4 days ago just for wearing a turban by some idiot who probably couldn't tell an Ethiopian from an Armenian from an Italian from George Hamilton in the middle of tanning season.
Search eBay and the surplus dealers for a keyboard with Spanish characters so they can put the upside down punctuation marks at the front of a sentence and the squiggly thing on top of the "N". And some other letter, I think.
Read this and ask yourself if we have enough EOD people to do the job before the turn of the next century.
The Soviet Union wanted a clear path to the sea, specifically the Indian Ocean, and Afghanistan happened to lie along that path.
Yeah, but all us more or less Europeans look the same to them.
Looks like you're a prophet--Windows XP Collectible Watch
Combine some of the suggestions here and build a hovercraft riding mower.
The above is the best solution proposed so far, provided that your motherboard actually has the traces for the -5V bus. If the power supply doesn't provide that voltage, they may have decided to save a little money by not including it. Does this beast use a standard power supply to motherboard connector--AT or ATX type?--or something proprietary?
Yeah it sounds really nice until you realise that Microsoft would be the sysadmin for this.
So if the computer crashes, taking everything you had open with it, it's okay as long as it reboots itself instead of making you do it yourself?
Is the motherboard designed without any way to power the -5V line on the ISA bus, or does the power supply not provide it?
Let's auction permanent ownership of spectrum. Nothing will ever happen to make it better to be able to re-assign frequencies."
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You can't make this stuff up.
Some might say that they've missed quite a few screws. :-)
Better yet, sent to an alternate universe where Osama bin Laden rules the kind of world he has in mind.
By the time enough red tape had been cut through to get permission or instructions to the fighters to actually shoot down a civilian airliner it would probably have been too late even if the fighters had already been circling the towers and the Pentagon.
I'd like to hear if anything more came of reports mentioned once or twice late Tuesday/early Wednesday that some witnesses reported a smaller plane following the one that hit the Pentagon.
Perhaps someone who knows more about airplanes than do I could offer an opinion as to whether a fight over the controls of the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania or some deliberate sabotage by the airline's pilot or other aircrew member could have resulted in damage of some sort to the wing that would have sent it plummeting to the ground without any need for outside intervention?
I know because they tell me this every five minutes.
The problem with a story such as this (or the Gulf War) is that it can't be packaged into easily managed episodes with commercial slots as though it were "Friends" or "All My Children" or whatever gets ratings these days.
And of course he views the mere presence in Saudi Arabia of any of us unclean infidels with the occasional impure thought as the vilest blasphemy (and co-incidentally an aid, because we are there to do business with them, trading our wealth for their petroleum, to the current rulers of Saudi Arabia who he wishes to overthrow).
So between his religious mania and desire for political power, he finds it desireable to get us out of the way and cripple us so badly that we can't interfere with him, and we make a handy point of focus for his irrational rage as well.
Just because he doesn't care about Irag and Saddam doesn't mean he isn't willing to make use of them, though, if he thinks it'll further his aims.