A tape from Bin Laden asking for support of Saddam against America in no way shows a connection between Hussein and Al-Queda.
Bin Laden wants this war, he knows that anything he does to reduce the distance between him and Saddam will bring the war closer (he succeeded). Now that the US is attacking Iraq, it is a lot easier to recruit new terrorists, and popular support for existing ones is growing.
So Bin Laden has great incentive to associate him self with Hussein in the media, regardless of whether or not any factual link exists. I am not saying there is no link between the Ba'ath party and Al-Queda (I don't think there is, I have not seen the evidence), but to think that tape establishes a link is idiotic
Even if you believe this war is just, you have to acknowledge that it will strengthen Al-Queda.
"hey, this new democratically-elected leader of Germany is a psychopath. Everything he says is based in hatred, he's a bully, he's disregarded, evaded, and finally ignored the Versailles disarmament restrictions..."
hmmm...
If you replace hatred with fear, and "Versailles disarmament restrictions" with "the UN security council" that sounds a lot like Bush to me.
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I am proud of the few among you,/. readers and US Citizens who *are* complaining about these horrible attacks
Hydrogen pipelines would be expensive initially, but would solve a lot of the grid problems facing the US today. Mostly because there is far less transmission loss associated with pipelines than with power lines. I think it is far more likely (in the long run) that electricity will be produced in the home, rather than hydrogen produced in the home...
I thought the most damning evidence in Colin Powell's Speech to the UN was when he held a small vile up and said,"[ just this much concentrted VX if dropped in the atmosphere over Manhattan could kill 10,000 or more people in less than 30 minutes!]"
Excuse me... How is this evidence? It is a statement of fact about a chemical, but it has nothing to do with weather or not Iraq has any of it. It is simple a FUD (Fear Uncertainty Doubt) tactic. Powell (who I had a lot of respect for until then) was trying to use your fear of the terrible things that would happen to convince you Saddam is dangerous, without saying a thing about Saddam, he said things about Saddam elsewhere in his speech, but he did not provide satisfactory evidence that Saddam has VX.
And about the whole pledge thing. Is 'under god' really so important to the meaning of the pledge. It was fine before they added it in the 50's...
"One nation with liberty and justice for all" Sounds pretty adequate to me.
First you should feel lucky that you live in a country that allows you say things like you did, allows political freedom and religious freedom - I suppose you do not want that for Iraq, which has neither.
I want them to have it, but I do not think it is our place to give it to them.
If in any way you are saying that professors and teachers in K-12/college are not liberal minded - then think again. How can it be possible without strong political parents (which there are few and far between) to influence children? Children and young adults are being educated in a system that is bias and being bombarded by bias media. Most children don't understand our tax system, want socialized medicine, taxes on the productive people in society to be unfair and unbalanced, and see nothing wrong with behaviours of our last President.
You say a lot of things here, but I don't understand what any of them have to do with our educators being far left. Most people educated elsewhere in the world (not in our 'far left' system) agree with most of the things that you claim are absurd. No one outside of this country cares about Clinton's dick...
The real world should teach you that you don't need intrusion into your life and assistance without earning it (wellfare, quotas, etc)
I don't like quota's either, I think that they were usefull, but have outlived that period. If we insist on sticking to quotas, I would like to see them based on non-ethnic factors (parents education level, parents income...). Welfare on the other hand is a very good idea. having welfare (for short term use) helps stabilize the economy. I would like to see it get harder for people to spend long periods of time on welfare.
The real world should teach you that if you like to smoke (it's bad for you, but your choice) that you can without being taxed up the wazoo
So that you can become a burden on a largely tax supported medical system...
that you can drive without paying gas tax up the wazoo
so you have to own a SUV to get around on the poorly maintained roads.
that you can have CAPITALIZED medicine so you don't have to go to another country like the Canadians do for healthcare
The canadian system is only one example, Germany has mostly-socialized medicine as well, and you never hear about them going without non-ecential procedures.
The real world in a socialized, peacenik, moral devoid society led to the Sept 11th bombing
Could you explain the connection there? I always thought that they were mad at us (for many reasons on the surface) for one real reason; people in our society have a lot (money, stuff, power) and they don't. Jealousy is a very human thing to experience, as long as most americans are not miserable, and people in other parts of the world are, people in other parts of the world will hate americans. To me it alwasy seemed that the right was more to blame for the hatred of americans thing than anyone else.
It really seems to me that you are just pissed off about the left, and want to blame liberalism on something, the educational system seemed like a good target.
in some cases so far left because of "brainwashing" by educational institutions.
I agree with your post, for the most part... But I strongly disagree with this statement. I am almost 25 (2 weeks from now...), I am very far to the left, but to blame it on my education is just wrong. I was a centrist who thought that the USA did the right thing most of the time, until I graduated and got into the real world. The only religiously oriented book that my (public) high school used for text was a book entitled 'the bible as literature', all of my economics classes (I took 4 of them, which is a lot for an engineer...) started with the premise that capitalism is superior. How can the fact that I am an anti-(Iraq)-war, Athiest, borderline-socialist now, be blamed on my education then?
The anti-war left is getting censored in our educational system right now. You can call me a liberal all you want, and all the dirty names that come along with that one, I will take it with pride, but I got this way by opening my mind, not through my education...
When "personal harm" extends to millions of people, the logic changes just a bit. We're not on the playground anymore.
Are you talking about harming the Iraqi people? I think we need to calm Bush down too...
Seriously, isn't anyone else worried about the doctrine of preemption, especially when it isn't based on hard facts rather than suspicions, and without the approval of the closed thing we have to a world government? Think about the precedent is sets. Any nation fearing attack by any other nation is justified in attack that nation. That sounds like a recipe for world war III. Is Israel justified in overrunning the entire middle-east?
You may disagree with me, but please think about what I have said before you flame me for it.
France has had plenty of problems with terrorists, in fact just about every western nation other than the US had terrorist incidents within their borders befoer 9/11.France has had plenty of problems with terrorists, in fact just about every western nation other than the US had terrorist incidents within their borders before 9/11.
I realize that 9/11 is an emotional issue for all of us Americans, but we need to keep our wits about us, and not let our emotions trick us in to believing Iraq had something to do with 9/11. The Bush administration is a much greater threat to our freedoms than Hussien is.
If it is true (I have not seen anything supporting your claim) that there is evidence of individuals affiliated with Al-Queda (sp?) in Iraq, we should give Iraq the same chance we gave the Taliban. We should demand that Iraq turn over a list of individuals known to be Al-Queda members, until we do that, and our demands are rejected (as they were in Afganistan) to even try to justify this war with the terrorism argument is wrong.
You don't think anyone with a disability should be aloud to be president?
I have never wanted to be in the military, but even if I did, I can't. My arches are low, so I require special running shoes, I can still do a marathon, but the military will not take me because I require special equipment. I also have psoriasis (a genetic skin condition that causes dry, flaking, cracking sores), all but the most mild of cases will keep you from being eligible (I am not sure if mine is bad enough for them to not want me)
So in your book I should never be aloud to run for president, that is fubar.
I would have no problem with a requirement for all people running of elected office (or even all voters for that mater, thanks Heinlein...) having worked in some kind of civil service job, this would include military, but also firefighters, police, forestry workers, and many others...
continued INFRASTRUCTURE maintenance, ie the trucks that bring food to safeway for you to buy, the trucks that deliver mail to the post office for you, the gas trucks from Chevron that ensure everyone else gets where they are going.
1. Safeway is privately owned, taxes do not pay for their trucks. 2. The post office is affiliated with the federal government, but they fund their own operations with the sale of stamps (the gov kicks in extra money when stuff goes wrong, but this is not the norm). 3. Chevron is again privately owned, you could argue that the government is wanting war with Iraq so chevron can deliver you cheaper oil, but that is about the limit of that connection.
under federal law, computer programmers and certain other high-tech employees are exempt from overtime pay if they earn at least $27.63 per hour. However, employers in California must still pay overtime to workers who receive less than $41 per hour; in other words, California employees who earn between $27.63 and $41 per hour will still receive overtime pay.
27.63 is ~57K I looked all over for any other mention of this requirement for exemption, and I could not find it. Can anyone else?
I make less than that, and so do all the other young engineers where I work (we are aerospace folks, not computer folks...). Most of us put in unpaid overtime, I am sure that my pals would like to see this and then show it to the boss... (it would probably be cheaper to give us all raises to the $27.63 level than to pay us overtime...)
I think you miss the point. If NAMBLA's speech can be restricted then the next group in from the fringe can have their speech restricted and so on until it is you and I who are censored.
Besides, the best way to defeat the enemy is to understand him. Let NAMBLA and the Nazis speak, let them make fools of themselves in public, let South Park poke fun at them... Restricting their speech will only force them underground, is that what you want?
I have not seen a post this important in some time. DeBeers is doing everything they can to keep this information secret (or at lest under-publicized)! It is your moral obligation to mod up the parent of this post.
So the failure rate of the first 113 flights was a little under 2 percent for the shuttle...
What do you think the failure rate was for the FIRST hundred or so manned atmospheric flights?
Manned space flight is still young, and you can call me a dreamer if you will, but I think it will get safer, and safer as time goes by and we gain experience, and we will continue to do so, it is human nature to want to explore. Accidents are unavoidable, no amount of preparation can prevent all accidents. Astronouts know this, and go up anyway, that is why you have to be brave to be one. Ultimatly sending people into space is the only way to get good at sending people into space.
The steam would be used to extract the energy as well. You would control the whole thing, by how you let water in and steam out, then you can control the density of the moderator, and through that the rate of the reaction, and the energy release.
The energy release would modify the steam, but only it's temperature or, if it is at the right temp... it's water fraction, but this would probably not effect the moderation greatly since the mass of the steam is unaffected by temperature...
No, it will be converted to much smaller atoms, so it stores the waste, extracts energy from it, and changes it's form. When CEASER is done with the rods, they will still need to be disposed of carefully, but the energy derived per unit of waste goes up greatly.
So... there is less waste for the same amount of electricity, this is the advantage...
a) a requirement that they not be fraudulent, which doesn't stop the volume of spam at all
ah but it would... An unsubscribe button (address, site, whatever) that doesn't unsubscribe is fraudulent. If the fraud laws pertaining to this aspect of spam were enforced, the unsubscription would be a useful thing, not a source of more spam. Depending on your interpretation of the laws, spoofing the headers can even be fraudulent. If spam had to comply to these rules, I think it would not be much of a problem, and we don't have to throw the bill of rights out the window...
Humans are more efficient (in terms total work done before exhaustion) if they are doing more repetitions of a motion with little load, instead of a few repatitions at high load. Look at Lance Armstrong, he pedals at about 120 strokes per minute to maintain his speed, he could go in a higher gear, and pedal slower, but his legs would burn out sooner...
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A tape from Bin Laden asking for support of Saddam against America in no way shows a connection between Hussein and Al-Queda.
Bin Laden wants this war, he knows that anything he does to reduce the distance between him and Saddam will bring the war closer (he succeeded). Now that the US is attacking Iraq, it is a lot easier to recruit new terrorists, and popular support for existing ones is growing.
So Bin Laden has great incentive to associate him self with Hussein in the media, regardless of whether or not any factual link exists. I am not saying there is no link between the Ba'ath party and Al-Queda (I don't think there is, I have not seen the evidence), but to think that tape establishes a link is idiotic
Even if you believe this war is just, you have to acknowledge that it will strengthen Al-Queda.
"hey, this new democratically-elected leader of Germany is a psychopath. Everything he says is based in hatred, he's a bully, he's disregarded, evaded, and finally ignored the Versailles disarmament restrictions..."
hmmm...
If you replace hatred with fear, and "Versailles disarmament restrictions" with "the UN security council" that sounds a lot like Bush to me.
I am proud of the few among you, /. readers and US Citizens who *are* complaining about these horrible attacks
you are not alone, my friend.
No need for expensive, ugly pipelines.
Hydrogen pipelines would be expensive initially, but would solve a lot of the grid problems facing the US today. Mostly because there is far less transmission loss associated with pipelines than with power lines. I think it is far more likely (in the long run) that electricity will be produced in the home, rather than hydrogen produced in the home...
I don't think you are correct. Do you have any documentation for these claims?
I don't know about you, but I had to say the pledge until high school...
I thought the most damning evidence in Colin Powell's Speech to the UN was when he held a small vile up and said,"[ just this much concentrted VX if dropped in the atmosphere over Manhattan could kill 10,000 or more people in less than 30 minutes!]"
Excuse me... How is this evidence? It is a statement of fact about a chemical, but it has nothing to do with weather or not Iraq has any of it. It is simple a FUD (Fear Uncertainty Doubt) tactic. Powell (who I had a lot of respect for until then) was trying to use your fear of the terrible things that would happen to convince you Saddam is dangerous, without saying a thing about Saddam, he said things about Saddam elsewhere in his speech, but he did not provide satisfactory evidence that Saddam has VX.
And about the whole pledge thing. Is 'under god' really so important to the meaning of the pledge. It was fine before they added it in the 50's...
"One nation with liberty and justice for all" Sounds pretty adequate to me.
First you should feel lucky that you live in a country that allows you say things like you did, allows political freedom and religious freedom - I suppose you do not want that for Iraq, which has neither.
I want them to have it, but I do not think it is our place to give it to them.
If in any way you are saying that professors and teachers in K-12/college are not liberal minded - then think again. How can it be possible without strong political parents (which there are few and far between) to influence children? Children and young adults are being educated in a system that is bias and being bombarded by bias media. Most children don't understand our tax system, want socialized medicine, taxes on the productive people in society to be unfair and unbalanced, and see nothing wrong with behaviours of our last President.
You say a lot of things here, but I don't understand what any of them have to do with our educators being far left. Most people educated elsewhere in the world (not in our 'far left' system) agree with most of the things that you claim are absurd. No one outside of this country cares about Clinton's dick...
The real world should teach you that you don't need intrusion into your life and assistance without earning it (wellfare, quotas, etc)
I don't like quota's either, I think that they were usefull, but have outlived that period. If we insist on sticking to quotas, I would like to see them based on non-ethnic factors (parents education level, parents income...). Welfare on the other hand is a very good idea. having welfare (for short term use) helps stabilize the economy. I would like to see it get harder for people to spend long periods of time on welfare.
The real world should teach you that if you like to smoke (it's bad for you, but your choice) that you can without being taxed up the wazoo
So that you can become a burden on a largely tax supported medical system...
that you can drive without paying gas tax up the wazoo
so you have to own a SUV to get around on the poorly maintained roads.
that you can have CAPITALIZED medicine so you don't have to go to another country like the Canadians do for healthcare
The canadian system is only one example, Germany has mostly-socialized medicine as well, and you never hear about them going without non-ecential procedures.
The real world in a socialized, peacenik, moral devoid society led to the Sept 11th bombing
Could you explain the connection there?
I always thought that they were mad at us (for many reasons on the surface) for one real reason; people in our society have a lot (money, stuff, power) and they don't. Jealousy is a very human thing to experience, as long as most americans are not miserable, and people in other parts of the world are, people in other parts of the world will hate americans. To me it alwasy seemed that the right was more to blame for the hatred of americans thing than anyone else.
It really seems to me that you are just pissed off about the left, and want to blame liberalism on something, the educational system seemed like a good target.
in some cases so far left because of "brainwashing" by educational institutions.
I agree with your post, for the most part... But I strongly disagree with this statement. I am almost 25 (2 weeks from now...), I am very far to the left, but to blame it on my education is just wrong. I was a centrist who thought that the USA did the right thing most of the time, until I graduated and got into the real world. The only religiously oriented book that my (public) high school used for text was a book entitled 'the bible as literature', all of my economics classes (I took 4 of them, which is a lot for an engineer...) started with the premise that capitalism is superior.
How can the fact that I am an anti-(Iraq)-war, Athiest, borderline-socialist now, be blamed on my education then?
The anti-war left is getting censored in our educational system right now. You can call me a liberal all you want, and all the dirty names that come along with that one, I will take it with pride, but I got this way by opening my mind, not through my education...
When "personal harm" extends to millions of people, the logic changes just a bit. We're not on the playground anymore.
Are you talking about harming the Iraqi people? I think we need to calm Bush down too...
Seriously, isn't anyone else worried about the doctrine of preemption, especially when it isn't based on hard facts rather than suspicions, and without the approval of the closed thing we have to a world government? Think about the precedent is sets. Any nation fearing attack by any other nation is justified in attack that nation. That sounds like a recipe for world war III. Is Israel justified in overrunning the entire middle-east?
You may disagree with me, but please think about what I have said before you flame me for it.
France has had plenty of problems with terrorists, in fact just about every western nation other than the US had terrorist incidents within their borders befoer 9/11.France has had plenty of problems with terrorists, in fact just about every western nation other than the US had terrorist incidents within their borders before 9/11.
I realize that 9/11 is an emotional issue for all of us Americans, but we need to keep our wits about us, and not let our emotions trick us in to believing Iraq had something to do with 9/11. The Bush administration is a much greater threat to our freedoms than Hussien is.
If it is true (I have not seen anything supporting your claim) that there is evidence of individuals affiliated with Al-Queda (sp?) in Iraq, we should give Iraq the same chance we gave the Taliban. We should demand that Iraq turn over a list of individuals known to be Al-Queda members, until we do that, and our demands are rejected (as they were in Afganistan) to even try to justify this war with the terrorism argument is wrong.
You don't think anyone with a disability should be aloud to be president?
I have never wanted to be in the military, but even if I did, I can't.
My arches are low, so I require special running shoes, I can still do a marathon, but the military will not take me because I require special equipment.
I also have psoriasis (a genetic skin condition that causes dry, flaking, cracking sores), all but the most mild of cases will keep you from being eligible (I am not sure if mine is bad enough for them to not want me)
So in your book I should never be aloud to run for president, that is fubar.
I would have no problem with a requirement for all people running of elected office (or even all voters for that mater, thanks Heinlein...) having worked in some kind of civil service job, this would include military, but also firefighters, police, forestry workers, and many others...
While I doubt that it will actually work, what is wrong for them wanting to expand their viewership?
If they want to expand their viewership, they should ask for more hot applicants...
continued INFRASTRUCTURE maintenance, ie the trucks that bring food to safeway for you to buy, the trucks that deliver mail to the post office for you, the gas trucks from Chevron that ensure everyone else gets where they are going.
1. Safeway is privately owned, taxes do not pay for their trucks.
2. The post office is affiliated with the federal government, but they fund their own operations with the sale of stamps (the gov kicks in extra money when stuff goes wrong, but this is not the norm).
3. Chevron is again privately owned, you could argue that the government is wanting war with Iraq so chevron can deliver you cheaper oil, but that is about the limit of that connection.
27.63 is ~57K I looked all over for any other mention of this requirement for exemption, and I could not find it. Can anyone else?
I make less than that, and so do all the other young engineers where I work (we are aerospace folks, not computer folks...). Most of us put in unpaid overtime, I am sure that my pals would like to see this and then show it to the boss...
(it would probably be cheaper to give us all raises to the $27.63 level than to pay us overtime...)
I think you miss the point. If NAMBLA's speech can be restricted then the next group in from the fringe can have their speech restricted and so on until it is you and I who are censored.
Besides, the best way to defeat the enemy is to understand him. Let NAMBLA and the Nazis speak, let them make fools of themselves in public, let South Park poke fun at them... Restricting their speech will only force them underground, is that what you want?
I have not seen a post this important in some time. DeBeers is doing everything they can to keep this information secret (or at lest under-publicized)! It is your moral obligation to mod up the parent of this post.
So the failure rate of the first 113 flights was a little under 2 percent for the shuttle...
What do you think the failure rate was for the FIRST hundred or so manned atmospheric flights?
Manned space flight is still young, and you can call me a dreamer if you will, but I think it will get safer, and safer as time goes by and we gain experience, and we will continue to do so, it is human nature to want to explore. Accidents are unavoidable, no amount of preparation can prevent all accidents. Astronouts know this, and go up anyway, that is why you have to be brave to be one. Ultimatly sending people into space is the only way to get good at sending people into space.
He has a new reaction, he is splitting U238 directly, no Pu involved.
BTW. I think it is an alpha particle for getting Pu...
The steam would be used to extract the energy as well. You would control the whole thing, by how you let water in and steam out, then you can control the density of the moderator, and through that the rate of the reaction, and the energy release.
The energy release would modify the steam, but only it's temperature or, if it is at the right temp... it's water fraction, but this would probably not effect the moderation greatly since the mass of the steam is unaffected by temperature...
No, it will be converted to much smaller atoms, so it stores the waste, extracts energy from it, and changes it's form. When CEASER is done with the rods, they will still need to be disposed of carefully, but the energy derived per unit of waste goes up greatly.
So... there is less waste for the same amount of electricity, this is the advantage...
His was funnier than any of yours
Problems with alchohol were worse during prohibition...
I guess my point is, if it is legal, then the business of distributing it will loose most of it's violence.
ah but it would... An unsubscribe button (address, site, whatever) that doesn't unsubscribe is fraudulent. If the fraud laws pertaining to this aspect of spam were enforced, the unsubscription would be a useful thing, not a source of more spam. Depending on your interpretation of the laws, spoofing the headers can even be fraudulent. If spam had to comply to these rules, I think it would not be much of a problem, and we don't have to throw the bill of rights out the window...
less pedaling, means pedaling harder...
Humans are more efficient (in terms total work done before exhaustion) if they are doing more repetitions of a motion with little load, instead of a few repatitions at high load. Look at Lance Armstrong, he pedals at about 120 strokes per minute to maintain his speed, he could go in a higher gear, and pedal slower, but his legs would burn out sooner...