I look forward even more to the day when we can molecularly scan a perfect steak (or anything) once, then freely distribute the "blueprint" and manufacture cheap copies by recyling local resources cheaply, easily, and cleanly.
What planet are you on? What makes you think that the corporations will ever do that? They already put a massive mark-up on medical supplies, what makes you think that food will be anything different, should they gain control of it?
Key question: Where's the profit? If it's not there, it ain't gonna happen.
To me, it makes much more sense to have all the music accessible, so I can listen to whatever I want without swapping cds.
Hell, that's how I got into mp3 in the first place. It was much cheaper than buying Wurlitzer. The downloading came later, when I realise that the obscure/rare music online took the chart music outside and put it out of it's misery.
It's not like women in porn are all that real these days anyway, between injections, implants, airbrushing, lighting, posing...
Hey, NO women in media are real anymore. Just search for pictures of your favourate stars without makeup and/or airbrushing. They literally look like the girl next door, nothing special at all.
When I first saw the article, that's what I thought it was anyway. All babes in the media are digital already!! God bless Photoshop!!
The cold war was about ICBMs and long range bombers.
Eh, no. Maybe in later years, but at the height of the tension, there were no ICBMs. What do you think the Cuban missle crisis was about? The Ruskies wanted a base in range of the US, to counteract the US missles in Turkey that were aimed at Moscow. The range was limited back then.
In England the vast majority of us are actively fighting the spread of US style Halloween. We have our own traditions and don't want gangs of underage thugs performing door-2-door extortion. I went drinking on Halloween like everyone else, I'll watch fireworks tonight like every other year.
Ehh? What are you smoking? The dressing up bit of Halloween has been going for many years, and is not from the US.
The only thing imported from the US is the concept of "trick or treat", which I don't agree with myself. Any kids play jokes on me, they'll get their legs broke!! If they turn up, be nice, do a party piece etc, I'll give 'em some fruit and chocolate, like everyone else has been doing for the past few decades.
I once saw a documentary, one of the BBCs late night "learning zone" ones I think (it was many years ago) that showed lots of evidence for the case that the whole thing was a frame up. There's no mention of that on the above site all!
Googling found this link, which mentions the price of gunpowder at the time being far to expensive for the conspirators to afford the amount they had. There is also doubt on the origins of the letter that tipped off authorities to the plot.
There is considerable evidence that there was no real Gunpowder Plot and that the idea of it was invented by Robert Cecil in order to discredit the Catholics, not to mention other motives such as removing a political rival (Northumberland) and gaining land from the the confiscated estates of Midland Catholics. This view of the plot provides answers to some otherwise awkward questions such as: Why were the Essex rebels let off a so lightly, and what exactly was meant by 'Reserved to her Majesty's use'? Why was Parliament postponed and how did the coal cellar became so easily and conveniently available? Where did so much gunpowder come from? Wasn't Tresham's warning letter an obvious giveaway? Why did Monteagle give it to Cecil and why didn't Cecil inform the King immediately? Why didn't Guy Fawkes escape after the first search and was he really tortured? How come the Midland rebels were so quickly surrounded by the Sheriff's men and why were Catesby and Percy both shot?
I couldn't find any really compelling links, certainally none as good as the documentary.
Bollocks. The term "Enemy combatants" was created in WW2 as there were no existing laws to cover sabotage agents on American soil. It was required to allow the procecution and execution of some spys, Japanesse IIRC.
Bush's lawyers soured the US legal history documents to find something that would allow them to hold people without trial, without loosing face. "Enemy combatants" hasn't ever been used since WW2, apart from Bush recently.
If I was in battle taking pop-shots from a raghead, they would be dead without question.
Most of them weren't arrested in battles. Those who fought got killed by your soldiers, hey, if you shoot a gun at me, I'd make a point of killing you myself!;-) Most of the detainees were arrested at home/work etc, often on the words of other Afgan's with grudges to bear. Remember the phrase innocent until proven guilty?
We have on of the highest literacy rates in the world.
Thanks. I had a good laugh at that!!
In fact, you have one of the lowest literacy rates in the western world.65th to be exact, behind countries such as Mongolia, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
You are probably forgetting the 12.1 million American children that live below the poverty line. But, that doesn't form your picture-postcard Fox news view of America, so forget about it. Ignorance is bliss.
Moron. The illegality of most drugs is based on the three R's: (example given is for pot)
Religion
There is no mention of pot in bible, while alcohol (the only legal intoxicating drug) is almost worshipped itself
Racism
"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others."
- Harry Anslinger, 1937 testimony to Congress in support of the Marijuana Tax Act.
Revenue
The main forces behind pots demonification were owners of timber stocks. Hemp (once one of the US's main cash crops) can produce paper far more efficiently than wood, at the loss to the lumber industries. They funded the misinformation films such as "Reefer Madness" as well as applied political lobbying. *
* it's nice to know (kind-of) that the current government corruption isn't exactly a recent development
The banning of almost all of them are linked to these. The social/psychological/physical impact is not relevant. Most illegal drugs commonly in use are less harmful than the pollution you breathe in during a stroll down an average city street.
And, why exactly are you against them? Did the alcohol-company-funded groups get to you early as a child? Don't take their drugs!! Take ours!!
Back on topic, this thing is a waste of time, except perhaps in prisons. Drugs do not get distributed through the post. Not do they get around on commercial flights, smuggled in condoms etc. Sure, it happens, but it's tip of the iceberg stuff.
The trade in illegal drugs is the third largest industry in the world. It is liked to organised crime, national security agencies and lot's of other seedy, underhand groups. Do you have any concept about how many "drugs" are consumed every week in the western world? How do you propose to stop this lucrative trade? Impossible. The law of supply and demand dictates it.
The only solution is total legalisation of most drugs. (with a few obvious exceptions). That way, you remove control of the trade away from the people who are the most undesirable to be in that postion.
Not only do you break the link with crime (and the gateway effect), you will also save lifes. I'd estimate that 90% of all drug deaths are directly related to the illegality of the drug, and not the drug itself. By far the biggest killer is heroin. The total lack of quality control means that some batches are many times the strength of others, hence the overdose deaths. The expence and availablity of the drug is also what causes the users to inject that crap into their bodys. If opium was much more available, most people would just smoke it instead of injecting. The same is true for MDMA (ecstacy), The vast majority of deaths are down to misinformation (overheating/dehyration) or the fact that the pill wasn't even ecstacy! The only "evidence" that Ecstacy causes any long term damage was recently thrown out when independant researches found out that it wasn't even ecstacy in the original study!
The drug stuff is a load of lies, like most things that people get told by those in power these days. One other poster suggested that the scientists behind that should try to cure cancer instead. However, the flaw behind that is that there is no money to be made.
Of course, they could just be warning everyone else that there's a speed trap up ahead.
A little OT, but a couple of kids round here had a great system for that. They would make two signs, with the first just out of sight of the trap reading "speed trap ahead". Just beyond the trap was another sign reading "Tips:" with a bucket below it.
We'll need a Euro-wide system to manage our armed forces when Bush decides that the present governments aren't forthcoming to US business interests, and that we need a regime change.;-)
Ocassionly, I'll run into something while I'm working on the computer that requires me to do some quick math. What do I do? Pick up my TI calculator that I leave sitting by it and punch it in.
That's great when you are at home, but sometimes it's handy to have things on the move. My cellphone has an TI59 emulated calculator on it, meaning I get full functionality without needing to carry anything else with me. It works by mapping the number keys to the number keys on the calculator (and a few others), with a scrolling selection box to press the other buttons.
Sure, it's not as nice as using a real one, but the convienence means there will always be a demand for PDA/phone calculators.
The patches for the init scripts REFUSED to install until I downgraded sendmail to 8.9.3 configured as it was during the system installation!
I've come across scenarios like this. The best way to fix it is to hack the patch install software, if possible. It's usually a shell script for these sort of things, and provided you are up to actually checking that the application causing problems isn't going to be affected (and you've backed up!!), then often simply disabling the check will get you through.
You really are far, far, off base. [snip] Iraq is far better now than it was before the war. Better yet, this time next year they will be far, far better off than they are now. Additionally, they can more than likely expect the same trend to continue for years to come.
OK, where do I begin? First off - I'm amazed and somewhat scared at your current image of what life in Iraq is like. Secondly, I'd like to mention that all linked sites are googled for, none are my favourites or anything like that. I'm personally getting most of my news coverage from the BBC, FYI, but I'm having trouble with their website, so I can't reference anything there. However, I figured you'd want proof, so google was used to get me relevant links. Some of the articles/issues were new to me.
Imagine a place where basic social order has broken down. This is Iraq. No government to pay wages, no workers to do essential tasks in a human society. Complete turmoil. There are still problems with drinking water in many places; due to equiptment that has been poorly maintained, as you yourself point point out. The war and lack of engineers working (who'll pay them and give them replacement parts?) has pushed the system to breaking point, a system we weakened ourselves (I'm a bit skeptical on this one, i.e. delibarate targeting).
Coming out the other end, sewage is also a massive problem. Not only do the above issues affect drinking water, they also have a big problem with rivers of raw sewage around in cramped living conditions. Disease is the last thing you want when you have a completely destroyed health system. Having no refuse facitlities also causes many problems, not least of all disease carrying vermin.
The lack of maintence is not Saddams fault, it never was, it is due to the international sanctions, which has been commonly acknowledged for a long time. They could not import the parts to fix the systems. They couldn't manufacture them, as the equiptment to make piping etc is the same stuff you use to make weaponry, and the sanctions have denied them that as well. It's now down to charities to help rebuild this system, as well as collaliton forces. Sure, you can pat yourself on the back that water and sewage will soon be superiour to pre-war levels, but remember why the system was poor in the first place. I'm sure all the dead children and vurnerable people who have died as a result of your glory will be lining up to thank you if there was an afterlife.
Police are scare and crime is at extraodinary levels. Car jacking, kidnapping, rapes, murders and theft plauge every city. Citizens are scared to roam the streets, travel at night is a dangerous proposal. Cars are only used in emergency, unless you want armed gangs taking them from you.
Most peoples savings have been rendered useless. The most popular large denomination note, the 10,000 dinar, is not accepted anywhere, due to mass forgery on stolen printing machines. Coinage is the only acceptible payment for anything. However, this is fortunatly changing, as a new currency has been introduced a week or so ago. This will take a while (til January they reckon) to become universal, but it leaves serious issues with folk who have literally become pennyless. People have to eat, feed children, pay bills and live. With so many workers not getting paid
Heading out on an errand, no time to respond right now. However, I could not let the following slide:
Iraq is far better now than it was before the war.
You sir, are a troll. There is no way anyone could possibly believe that, unless they are living with their head up Bush Jr's ass.
I'll tare the rest of your bullshit apart later.;-) (mostly the first section, you seem to get some reason later). It's quite funny stuff by the way, I really hope you aren't really a troll.
German people were doing much of the extermination, as you may remember.
And US-arabs haven't been getting a hard time since 9/11? There were lots of race-related murders in the US since then. You clearly seem to be able to ignore the fact that history is repeating itself.
Before breaking into Godwin comments, I'd also like to say that the Nazi's weren't the first to use such tatics, nor were they the last.
Getting on a moral high horse about new weaponry will not stop people from deciding to war on each other, It will only ensure that they use more primitivw weapons.
Interestingly, the inventor of the machine gun thought it would provide an end to war, because of it's destructive power.
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It's an extra on the Matrix Reloaded DVD, but as always, you can download it from your favourite p2p client.
What planet are you on? What makes you think that the corporations will ever do that? They already put a massive mark-up on medical supplies, what makes you think that food will be anything different, should they gain control of it?
Key question: Where's the profit? If it's not there, it ain't gonna happen.
Hell, that's how I got into mp3 in the first place. It was much cheaper than buying Wurlitzer. The downloading came later, when I realise that the obscure/rare music online took the chart music outside and put it out of it's misery.
Ah, so it's you that's buying the X10 gear. Another problem solved!!
Hey, NO women in media are real anymore. Just search for pictures of your favourate stars without makeup and/or airbrushing. They literally look like the girl next door, nothing special at all.
When I first saw the article, that's what I thought it was anyway. All babes in the media are digital already!! God bless Photoshop!!
Eh, no. Maybe in later years, but at the height of the tension, there were no ICBMs. What do you think the Cuban missle crisis was about? The Ruskies wanted a base in range of the US, to counteract the US missles in Turkey that were aimed at Moscow. The range was limited back then.
Ehh? What are you smoking? The dressing up bit of Halloween has been going for many years, and is not from the US.
The only thing imported from the US is the concept of "trick or treat", which I don't agree with myself. Any kids play jokes on me, they'll get their legs broke!! If they turn up, be nice, do a party piece etc, I'll give 'em some fruit and chocolate, like everyone else has been doing for the past few decades.
Googling found this link, which mentions the price of gunpowder at the time being far to expensive for the conspirators to afford the amount they had. There is also doubt on the origins of the letter that tipped off authorities to the plot.
Another site states the following:
I couldn't find any really compelling links, certainally none as good as the documentary.
I know. We should all follow the US model of corporations becoming entrenched in the decision-making bodies of government. ;-)
Bollocks. The term "Enemy combatants" was created in WW2 as there were no existing laws to cover sabotage agents on American soil. It was required to allow the procecution and execution of some spys, Japanesse IIRC.
Bush's lawyers soured the US legal history documents to find something that would allow them to hold people without trial, without loosing face. "Enemy combatants" hasn't ever been used since WW2, apart from Bush recently.
If I was in battle taking pop-shots from a raghead, they would be dead without question.
Most of them weren't arrested in battles. Those who fought got killed by your soldiers, hey, if you shoot a gun at me, I'd make a point of killing you myself! ;-) Most of the detainees were arrested at home/work etc, often on the words of other Afgan's with grudges to bear. Remember the phrase innocent until proven guilty?
Thanks. I had a good laugh at that!!
In fact, you have one of the lowest literacy rates in the western world. 65th to be exact, behind countries such as Mongolia, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
You are probably forgetting the 12.1 million American children that live below the poverty line. But, that doesn't form your picture-postcard Fox news view of America, so forget about it. Ignorance is bliss.
Moron. The illegality of most drugs is based on the three R's: (example given is for pot)
* it's nice to know (kind-of) that the current government corruption isn't exactly a recent development
The banning of almost all of them are linked to these. The social/psychological/physical impact is not relevant. Most illegal drugs commonly in use are less harmful than the pollution you breathe in during a stroll down an average city street.
And, why exactly are you against them? Did the alcohol-company-funded groups get to you early as a child? Don't take their drugs!! Take ours!!
Back on topic, this thing is a waste of time, except perhaps in prisons. Drugs do not get distributed through the post. Not do they get around on commercial flights, smuggled in condoms etc. Sure, it happens, but it's tip of the iceberg stuff.
The trade in illegal drugs is the third largest industry in the world. It is liked to organised crime, national security agencies and lot's of other seedy, underhand groups. Do you have any concept about how many "drugs" are consumed every week in the western world? How do you propose to stop this lucrative trade? Impossible. The law of supply and demand dictates it.
The only solution is total legalisation of most drugs. (with a few obvious exceptions). That way, you remove control of the trade away from the people who are the most undesirable to be in that postion.
Not only do you break the link with crime (and the gateway effect), you will also save lifes. I'd estimate that 90% of all drug deaths are directly related to the illegality of the drug, and not the drug itself. By far the biggest killer is heroin. The total lack of quality control means that some batches are many times the strength of others, hence the overdose deaths. The expence and availablity of the drug is also what causes the users to inject that crap into their bodys. If opium was much more available, most people would just smoke it instead of injecting. The same is true for MDMA (ecstacy), The vast majority of deaths are down to misinformation (overheating/dehyration) or the fact that the pill wasn't even ecstacy! The only "evidence" that Ecstacy causes any long term damage was recently thrown out when independant researches found out that it wasn't even ecstacy in the original study!
The drug stuff is a load of lies, like most things that people get told by those in power these days. One other poster suggested that the scientists behind that should try to cure cancer instead. However, the flaw behind that is that there is no money to be made.
Bush didn't come up with this. His masters undoubtably had a team of lawyers looking for legal precidents that "let them get away with this".
A little OT, but a couple of kids round here had a great system for that. They would make two signs, with the first just out of sight of the trap reading "speed trap ahead". Just beyond the trap was another sign reading "Tips:" with a bucket below it.
We'll need a Euro-wide system to manage our armed forces when Bush decides that the present governments aren't forthcoming to US business interests, and that we need a regime change. ;-)
"It's the freakin' weekend baby, you know I like them young"
That's great when you are at home, but sometimes it's handy to have things on the move. My cellphone has an TI59 emulated calculator on it, meaning I get full functionality without needing to carry anything else with me. It works by mapping the number keys to the number keys on the calculator (and a few others), with a scrolling selection box to press the other buttons.
Sure, it's not as nice as using a real one, but the convienence means there will always be a demand for PDA/phone calculators.
Of course. And you can do it for free on most moderns OSs, without Gators help. Google for "free ntp server" and try and find a local one. Easy.
I've come across scenarios like this. The best way to fix it is to hack the patch install software, if possible. It's usually a shell script for these sort of things, and provided you are up to actually checking that the application causing problems isn't going to be affected (and you've backed up!!), then often simply disabling the check will get you through.
Check my full reply to your parent's parent post. Electricity is the least of their problems right now.
OK, where do I begin? First off - I'm amazed and somewhat scared at your current image of what life in Iraq is like. Secondly, I'd like to mention that all linked sites are googled for, none are my favourites or anything like that. I'm personally getting most of my news coverage from the BBC, FYI, but I'm having trouble with their website, so I can't reference anything there. However, I figured you'd want proof, so google was used to get me relevant links. Some of the articles/issues were new to me.
Imagine a place where basic social order has broken down. This is Iraq. No government to pay wages, no workers to do essential tasks in a human society. Complete turmoil. There are still problems with drinking water in many places; due to equiptment that has been poorly maintained, as you yourself point point out. The war and lack of engineers working (who'll pay them and give them replacement parts?) has pushed the system to breaking point, a system we weakened ourselves (I'm a bit skeptical on this one, i.e. delibarate targeting).
Coming out the other end, sewage is also a massive problem. Not only do the above issues affect drinking water, they also have a big problem with rivers of raw sewage around in cramped living conditions. Disease is the last thing you want when you have a completely destroyed health system. Having no refuse facitlities also causes many problems, not least of all disease carrying vermin.
The lack of maintence is not Saddams fault, it never was, it is due to the international sanctions, which has been commonly acknowledged for a long time. They could not import the parts to fix the systems. They couldn't manufacture them, as the equiptment to make piping etc is the same stuff you use to make weaponry, and the sanctions have denied them that as well. It's now down to charities to help rebuild this system, as well as collaliton forces. Sure, you can pat yourself on the back that water and sewage will soon be superiour to pre-war levels, but remember why the system was poor in the first place. I'm sure all the dead children and vurnerable people who have died as a result of your glory will be lining up to thank you if there was an afterlife.
Police are scare and crime is at extraodinary levels. Car jacking, kidnapping, rapes, murders and theft plauge every city. Citizens are scared to roam the streets, travel at night is a dangerous proposal. Cars are only used in emergency, unless you want armed gangs taking them from you.
Most peoples savings have been rendered useless. The most popular large denomination note, the 10,000 dinar, is not accepted anywhere, due to mass forgery on stolen printing machines. Coinage is the only acceptible payment for anything. However, this is fortunatly changing, as a new currency has been introduced a week or so ago. This will take a while (til January they reckon) to become universal, but it leaves serious issues with folk who have literally become pennyless. People have to eat, feed children, pay bills and live. With so many workers not getting paid
Iraq is far better now than it was before the war.
You sir, are a troll. There is no way anyone could possibly believe that, unless they are living with their head up Bush Jr's ass.
I'll tare the rest of your bullshit apart later. ;-) (mostly the first section, you seem to get some reason later). It's quite funny stuff by the way, I really hope you aren't really a troll.
And US-arabs haven't been getting a hard time since 9/11? There were lots of race-related murders in the US since then. You clearly seem to be able to ignore the fact that history is repeating itself.
Before breaking into Godwin comments, I'd also like to say that the Nazi's weren't the first to use such tatics, nor were they the last.
Interestingly, the inventor of the machine gun thought it would provide an end to war, because of it's destructive power.
Are you trying to be ironic? Or are you unaware of the post-war effects or nuclear weapons, depleted uranium shells and landmines? ;-)