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57% Americans support military action in Iran
By Greg Miller, Times Staff Writer
Published: January 27 2006 15:22 | Last updated: January 27 2006 15:22
WASHINGTON -- Despite persistent disillusionment with the war in Iraq, a majority of Americans supports taking military action against Iran if that country continues to produce material that can be used to develop nuclear weapons, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found.
The poll, conducted Sunday through Wednesday, found that 57% of Americans favor military intervention if Iran's Islamic government pursues a program that could enable it to build nuclear arms.
Support for military action against Tehran has increased over the last year, the poll found, even though public sentiment is running against the war in neighboring Iraq: 53% said they believe the situation there was not worth going to war.
The poll results suggest that the difficulties the United States has encountered in Iraq have not turned the public against the possibility of military actions elsewhere in the Middle East.Bush ratings sink in latest poll
Support for a potential military confrontation with Iran was strongest among Republican respondents, among whom 76% endorsed the idea. But even among Democrats, who overwhelmingly oppose the war in Iraq, 49% supported such action.
In follow-up interviews, some respondents said they believed Iran posed a more serious threat than Saddam Hussein's Iraq did.
"I really don't think Saddam had anything to do with terrorism, but Iran, I believe, does," said Edward Wtulich, of Goshen, N.Y. He was among the 1,555 adults who participated in this week's survey, which has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. "Iran has been a problem, I think, for years," Wtulich said, "and we've known about it."
Wtulich, a registered Democrat and retired manager for the New York City Housing Authority, said he supported taking a hard line with Iran despite the strain of the Iraq war on the U.S. military.
"It makes me scared," he said, "but we may not have a choice."
Experts said the public's views on Iran appeared to have hardened in part because of the more aggressive anti-Western posture of Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Elected last year, he has riled the international community with remarks denying the Holocaust and with declarations that Iran will defy European and U.S. pressure and continue to pursue efforts to enrich uranium.
His comments have fostered an impression of him as "very reckless, a real rogue, as opposed to simply a populist," said political science professor John Mueller of Ohio State University, who is an authority on wartime public opinion.
Mueller said that Americans' rising support for confronting Iran was "impressive," especially considering their misgivings about the war in Iraq, and that their support suggested "concerns about the new president." But he added that poll respondents are often more inclined to voice support for military intervention when the question is framed broadly and the potential for casualties is unclear.
"You always get higher support for things like 'military action,' because that could just mean bombing, as opposed to sending troops or going to war," Mueller said.
Poll respondents expressed a strong preference for the United States working with allies to fight international law violations or global aggression.
Iran has insisted its nuclear program is solely for energy production. But the United States and other Western governments suspect Iran's program is aimed at developing weapons.
European nations that have negotiated with Iran over its program want the matter referred to the United Nations Security Council. Iran has indicated it might be open to a compromise in which Russia would provide enriched uranium to Iran, for use exclusively in energy reactors.
The American public's position on Iran appears to have hardened over the last year, a period marked by an increasing international focus on Iran's nuclear program. When a similar question was asked in a Times poll las
'Information intended for foreign audiences, including public diplomacy and Psyops, is increasingly consumed by our domestic audience,'
Like our Congress....
1. To authorize the POTUS to use force in Vietnam etc., based on known "defective" Gulf of Tonkin "incident"
2. To authorize the POTUS to use force on Iraq based on known to be "defective" information on WMD
and in near future...
3. To authorize the POTUS to use force in Iran based on known to be "defective" information on U enrichment for nuclear weapons.
Any one else see the echo chamber effect boomeranging on us?
India has been using Electronic Voting Machines for over 15 years with no damage to election process. It is a small portable battery operated machine.
http://www.eci.gov.in/EVM/
And it was called "Operation Research" - Short for "Military Operations Research" (yes, WWII era military). Folks studied, more than 20 years back: Linear programming, dynamic programming, queueing theory, simulation, inventory theory, game theory, miriad other optimization strategies/algorithms/heuristics. BW article is 50 years late! Without all that "math" how does IBM machine beat chess grandmaster, map human genome and discover drugs or heck, just how do you think a (CDMA - Code Division Multiple Access) cell phone works? using Fourier transforms, Viterbi (maximum likelihood estimator) coding, pseudo random numbers etc.,
MacOS on PC's - that is going to be a tectonic event. Apple may, enthusiastically or reluctantly - go in that direction as the hardware difference between the two platforms starts to narrow. Imagine Apple salivating at even 10% of Microsoft's revenues vs. 4% of personal computer market. Expect before 2010. Once the gush of profits from iPod starts waning as it gets commoditized, Apple will be compelled to reinvent itself as a software company.
Many others in your situation have bought broadband at a nearby city and tunneled it to their place with a directional 802.11. See "Pringle Can Antenna" on slashdot.
"Software Development" by entering opcodes by flipping switches to set a "word" and pressing a "Load" button. After "Load"ing the code, Press "Run". When things went wrong, enter addresses and peek what is in memory.
Yes, I did this once in 1977 on a Intel 8080, a PDP-11 type in 1982.
I have have developed countless programs using Punchcard. Believe me, Your work is *Pleasure* compared to punchcard work.
But how do they resolve Doppler shift?
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I read the article; If one needs that high precision before checking out Einstein's theory, How do they measure the relative velocity of far off objects with such high precision? If the objects are moving by even tiny amounts (beyond what we know), Doppler shift would overhelm any Bug-in-Relativity-Theory type of errors.
With scanners being so inexpensive, why are we not
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With scanners being so inexpensive, why are we not using fingerprint scanning based authentication yet?
I am surprised he didn't suggest a far more rational science. Create a modern day Ark and send a variety of life, weighted towards simpler forms, as they have a higher probability of success. Some algae, bacteria, protozoans should be good. Add some roaches, mice for extra effect. Just pick the most successful species and rain them all over mars.
There is a more than even chance that some species will evolve and find a way to propagate.
Definitely, this is more scientific and non-ghoulish way to establish life on mars.
For much less money, a more exciting science and technology project would be to send a probe to the center of earth. If possible, we should even bring a sample of earth's core. The advances in material science, geology, volcanology, siesmic forcasting would be astronomical. And how can you equal the joy of understanding our own home planet so much more intimately.
Why only fascination with space? A project to explore earth's core by sending a probe across sounds very interesting to me. I theorize that we will learn a LOT, especially about seismology, volcanology, geology etc., by developing technologies to send a probe to earth's center which can telemetry the data to the surface.
I think if some one really wants to solve this problem, they can setup some system of bird feeders at a distance from the turbines to attract the birds away. After all, most of the birds are flying in search of food probably. A little help in suggesting alternate path/food source will be quickly appreciated and responded to by the birds.
What will be some of the problems that will be left "unsolved" when this brick wall is reached? Single processor computers by then will run processors at 10GHz+, memory will be 100GB+. Supercomputers can be wired up to give about 100K performance over single processor machine. That would be about 10^10 today's mips. I can't see too many difficult problems with this performance.
Is it legal to use a Bastard file (a file intermediate between the coarsest and the second cut) to work on a Male/Female fitting (PC term: 'U-T' fitting)?
But excuse me, isn't 600 M$ chump change compared to 87 B$, which the congress ponied up rather quickly? If NASA really have to get rid of it, why not donate it. May be some private donation can maintain it, or Russia or China or ESA?
Or how about ebay?
But would US do this, say if MeCha becomes very powerful and demand Azatlan? I don't think so, if you go by the Quebec example in Canada. They faced the call for separation head on and went to vote. I think that is how a mature democracy should be have when the "band that unites the peoples becomes too weak".
And so are the many Algae and Fungi. Probably most of Thallophytes, Bryophytes and even many Teridophytes are from Jurrassic. So are (among animals) most protozoans and other invertibrates.
Hope this becomes a new trend; especially with DVD
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Hope this becomes a new trend; especially with DVDs. Then we can get rid of OS from hard drive entirely and just use a universally recognized file system on the HDD. You can boot whatever OS you want with the DVD and get the work done. Imagine four different people in your home using the same machine with four different OSs. The ultimate Virtual Machine!
>>but it's funny to think that CCUR had this technology in the late 1980's
Analog Computers are even older than that; and they used true quantum mechanics since they computed based on voltage, current etc., What he is saying is that eventually, all computation will become 'Analog' - in ways much more sophisticated than in 1950's.
In San Diego, a major whitebox vendor (Microtron 2000) offers Lindows as the 'default' OS (at no 'cost'). Many others including Fry's, Walmart offer a bare machine or free Linux/Lindows. Agreed your benchmark is a while away, but things are changing rather fast. Notice that MS no longer offers stock options - they are recognizing that free lunch days are over. They are also increasingly doing more of their development offshore - sign that they want to save money above all else. Don't be surprised if MS becomes a RCA, US Steel or Lucent 10 years from now.
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This just in: 57% Americans support military action in Iran By Greg Miller, Times Staff Writer Published: January 27 2006 15:22 | Last updated: January 27 2006 15:22 WASHINGTON -- Despite persistent disillusionment with the war in Iraq, a majority of Americans supports taking military action against Iran if that country continues to produce material that can be used to develop nuclear weapons, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found. The poll, conducted Sunday through Wednesday, found that 57% of Americans favor military intervention if Iran's Islamic government pursues a program that could enable it to build nuclear arms. Support for military action against Tehran has increased over the last year, the poll found, even though public sentiment is running against the war in neighboring Iraq: 53% said they believe the situation there was not worth going to war. The poll results suggest that the difficulties the United States has encountered in Iraq have not turned the public against the possibility of military actions elsewhere in the Middle East.Bush ratings sink in latest poll Support for a potential military confrontation with Iran was strongest among Republican respondents, among whom 76% endorsed the idea. But even among Democrats, who overwhelmingly oppose the war in Iraq, 49% supported such action. In follow-up interviews, some respondents said they believed Iran posed a more serious threat than Saddam Hussein's Iraq did. "I really don't think Saddam had anything to do with terrorism, but Iran, I believe, does," said Edward Wtulich, of Goshen, N.Y. He was among the 1,555 adults who participated in this week's survey, which has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. "Iran has been a problem, I think, for years," Wtulich said, "and we've known about it." Wtulich, a registered Democrat and retired manager for the New York City Housing Authority, said he supported taking a hard line with Iran despite the strain of the Iraq war on the U.S. military. "It makes me scared," he said, "but we may not have a choice." Experts said the public's views on Iran appeared to have hardened in part because of the more aggressive anti-Western posture of Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Elected last year, he has riled the international community with remarks denying the Holocaust and with declarations that Iran will defy European and U.S. pressure and continue to pursue efforts to enrich uranium. His comments have fostered an impression of him as "very reckless, a real rogue, as opposed to simply a populist," said political science professor John Mueller of Ohio State University, who is an authority on wartime public opinion. Mueller said that Americans' rising support for confronting Iran was "impressive," especially considering their misgivings about the war in Iraq, and that their support suggested "concerns about the new president." But he added that poll respondents are often more inclined to voice support for military intervention when the question is framed broadly and the potential for casualties is unclear. "You always get higher support for things like 'military action,' because that could just mean bombing, as opposed to sending troops or going to war," Mueller said. Poll respondents expressed a strong preference for the United States working with allies to fight international law violations or global aggression. Iran has insisted its nuclear program is solely for energy production. But the United States and other Western governments suspect Iran's program is aimed at developing weapons. European nations that have negotiated with Iran over its program want the matter referred to the United Nations Security Council. Iran has indicated it might be open to a compromise in which Russia would provide enriched uranium to Iran, for use exclusively in energy reactors. The American public's position on Iran appears to have hardened over the last year, a period marked by an increasing international focus on Iran's nuclear program. When a similar question was asked in a Times poll las
'Information intended for foreign audiences, including public diplomacy and Psyops, is increasingly consumed by our domestic audience,' Like our Congress.... 1. To authorize the POTUS to use force in Vietnam etc., based on known "defective" Gulf of Tonkin "incident" 2. To authorize the POTUS to use force on Iraq based on known to be "defective" information on WMD and in near future... 3. To authorize the POTUS to use force in Iran based on known to be "defective" information on U enrichment for nuclear weapons. Any one else see the echo chamber effect boomeranging on us?
India has been using Electronic Voting Machines for over 15 years with no damage to election process. It is a small portable battery operated machine. http://www.eci.gov.in/EVM/
And it was called "Operation Research" - Short for "Military Operations Research" (yes, WWII era military). Folks studied, more than 20 years back: Linear programming, dynamic programming, queueing theory, simulation, inventory theory, game theory, miriad other optimization strategies/algorithms/heuristics. BW article is 50 years late! Without all that "math" how does IBM machine beat chess grandmaster, map human genome and discover drugs or heck, just how do you think a (CDMA - Code Division Multiple Access) cell phone works? using Fourier transforms, Viterbi (maximum likelihood estimator) coding, pseudo random numbers etc.,
MacOS on PC's - that is going to be a tectonic event. Apple may, enthusiastically or reluctantly - go in that direction as the hardware difference between the two platforms starts to narrow. Imagine Apple salivating at even 10% of Microsoft's revenues vs. 4% of personal computer market. Expect before 2010. Once the gush of profits from iPod starts waning as it gets commoditized, Apple will be compelled to reinvent itself as a software company.
Many others in your situation have bought broadband at a nearby city and tunneled it to their place with a directional 802.11. See "Pringle Can Antenna" on slashdot.
And didn't Marconi receive his 'C' (radiotelegraph message) in Canada?
Allright, you tickled my interest. Can you please name "some towns in this country still don't have landline phones".
"Software Development" by entering opcodes by flipping switches to set a "word" and pressing a "Load" button. After "Load"ing the code, Press "Run". When things went wrong, enter addresses and peek what is in memory. Yes, I did this once in 1977 on a Intel 8080, a PDP-11 type in 1982. I have have developed countless programs using Punchcard. Believe me, Your work is *Pleasure* compared to punchcard work.
I read the article; If one needs that high precision before checking out Einstein's theory, How do they measure the relative velocity of far off objects with such high precision? If the objects are moving by even tiny amounts (beyond what we know), Doppler shift would overhelm any Bug-in-Relativity-Theory type of errors.
With scanners being so inexpensive, why are we not using fingerprint scanning based authentication yet?
I am surprised he didn't suggest a far more rational science. Create a modern day Ark and send a variety of life, weighted towards simpler forms, as they have a higher probability of success. Some algae, bacteria, protozoans should be good. Add some roaches, mice for extra effect. Just pick the most successful species and rain them all over mars. There is a more than even chance that some species will evolve and find a way to propagate. Definitely, this is more scientific and non-ghoulish way to establish life on mars.
For much less money, a more exciting science and technology project would be to send a probe to the center of earth. If possible, we should even bring a sample of earth's core. The advances in material science, geology, volcanology, siesmic forcasting would be astronomical. And how can you equal the joy of understanding our own home planet so much more intimately.
Why only fascination with space? A project to explore earth's core by sending a probe across sounds very interesting to me. I theorize that we will learn a LOT, especially about seismology, volcanology, geology etc., by developing technologies to send a probe to earth's center which can telemetry the data to the surface.
I think if some one really wants to solve this problem, they can setup some system of bird feeders at a distance from the turbines to attract the birds away. After all, most of the birds are flying in search of food probably. A little help in suggesting alternate path/food source will be quickly appreciated and responded to by the birds.
What will be some of the problems that will be left "unsolved" when this brick wall is reached? Single processor computers by then will run processors at 10GHz+, memory will be 100GB+. Supercomputers can be wired up to give about 100K performance over single processor machine. That would be about 10^10 today's mips. I can't see too many difficult problems with this performance.
Is it legal to use a Bastard file (a file intermediate between the coarsest and the second cut) to work on a Male/Female fitting (PC term: 'U-T' fitting)?
But excuse me, isn't 600 M$ chump change compared to 87 B$, which the congress ponied up rather quickly? If NASA really have to get rid of it, why not donate it. May be some private donation can maintain it, or Russia or China or ESA? Or how about ebay?
For a moment I thought a subsidiary of Sun created this genius technology! Just imagine someone telling "You have the technical IQ of SunComm"!
But would US do this, say if MeCha becomes very powerful and demand Azatlan? I don't think so, if you go by the Quebec example in Canada. They faced the call for separation head on and went to vote. I think that is how a mature democracy should be have when the "band that unites the peoples becomes too weak".
And so are the many Algae and Fungi. Probably most of Thallophytes, Bryophytes and even many Teridophytes are from Jurrassic. So are (among animals) most protozoans and other invertibrates.
Hope this becomes a new trend; especially with DVDs. Then we can get rid of OS from hard drive entirely and just use a universally recognized file system on the HDD. You can boot whatever OS you want with the DVD and get the work done. Imagine four different people in your home using the same machine with four different OSs. The ultimate Virtual Machine!
>>but it's funny to think that CCUR had this technology in the late 1980's Analog Computers are even older than that; and they used true quantum mechanics since they computed based on voltage, current etc., What he is saying is that eventually, all computation will become 'Analog' - in ways much more sophisticated than in 1950's.
one more avenue for porn peddlers. Now they can send a quick peek-a-boo for a few pennies on paypal.
In San Diego, a major whitebox vendor (Microtron 2000) offers Lindows as the 'default' OS (at no 'cost'). Many others including Fry's, Walmart offer a bare machine or free Linux/Lindows. Agreed your benchmark is a while away, but things are changing rather fast. Notice that MS no longer offers stock options - they are recognizing that free lunch days are over. They are also increasingly doing more of their development offshore - sign that they want to save money above all else. Don't be surprised if MS becomes a RCA, US Steel or Lucent 10 years from now.