Well, since Haliburton was awarded preferred status by Clinton after they had previously failed the bid process, they didn't have to bid on this project and were automatically awarded it.
Second, there are only two companies in the world that do what Haliburton does. The other is a French company.
Don't you just hate it when reality pops your little I hate America balloon?
This is very true. Their rape rooms, acid bath facilities and mass grave infrastructure were the finest in the world.
And, I'm fine with people having their own opinions until they start expressing them by blowing up school children, flying airplanes into buildings, and funding and training the same. Then I say, shut up and do as we think, or we'll come and kick the snot out of you.
Choke on it, but we are the good guys, here and they are not.
Translation: Anyone who disagrees with me is an idiot and should shut up because I am smarter and more informed than they ever could hope to be. In fact, they should just let me rule them and make all their decisions for them; they'll be so much happier in the miserable little superstitious peasant lives.
How far back are you going to take this stupidity? So, do we roll back Spain's occupation of Central Mexico? Well, then after that do we roll back the Aztec conquests of the native peoples living there for thousands of years? Next, do we roll back the Mongol invasions of China? The Spanish conquest of the moors, then push the moors back into Arabia and give the land back to the Spanish? Do we kick all the Arabs out of Jerusalem and give it to the Jews, then roll the Jews back into Egypt and give the land back to the Cananites? Then do we push the Saxons back out of Germany into Northern France, and the Germanic tribes out of central Europe and give it back to the Romans?
Because we could. That's the nature of the human creature. Don't kid yourself for a moment that if the roles had been reversed, we wouldn't all be on the reservation while the Iroqouis colonies of Europe were squabbling with the mother country.
That's been pretty much taken care of. Don't believe too much of what Dan Rathers or Peter Jennings tells you. Look between the lines.
For example, when CBS was showing footage of Iraqis dancing in the streets on learning of Saddam's capture, notice that lights were on all over the city, in all the buildings in the background, and throughout the neighborhood being filmed, and CBS made particular mention that this was a poor area of Baghdad.
OK, guys, getting your CPU too cold is just as bad for it. In my college days I worked in the Military Test unit for a fab. One of the things we had to do was cold soak test the chips. We used LN2 to bring the test machines down to anywhere from -80 to -170. We had a significant failure rate once we got much below -100.
More likely, other MP3 manufacturers will scramble to support M4P on their players as iTunes popularity increases. Esp. next year when Pepsi starts to give away 100 million songs from iTunes.
Plus the fact that nobody seems to have gotten around to reporting it until 7 years after the fact (the first mention is some newspaper article in 1909).
The New Zealand claim just sounds too much like someone seeing a great invention and telling people: Well, hey, I did that first a year before they did. Well, no, I don't have any pictures, but my cousin Earl was there and saw the whole thing, right Earl?
Yep Ashcroft will be right there asking everyone coming if they are a private aviator. Anyone saying yes will be immediately locked in irons because we all know that private aviators are not welcome to the event.
Orvile and Wilbur Wright would have been ecstatic to have the President of the United States of America take a personal interest in their demonstration.
Sheesh. The energy people waste looking for things to whine about.
The selection of 60 for seconds in a minute, minutes in an hour was not arbitrary. The number 60 is evenly divisible by more numbers than any other number between one and one hundred. It's the extreme opposite of a prime number, if you will.
The same reasoning went behind selecting 360 for the number of degrees in a circle.
Doesn't work that way. There's a reason the second is defined as the basic SI unit of time. You start playing around with your basic units of measure, then all your derived units are screwed.
Now, if the folks at JPL make the Martian Second a derived unit, called a MarSec or something equally inane, but based upon the SI time unit of the second, then perhaps this will work.
That is, until someone forgets to convert units and we wind up with another hundred million down the toilet.
He may not be trolling. There are genuine, truly amazingly stupid idiots in this world who honestly think that countries like China and North Korea are freer, more just nations than America.
Is to make totally sure you've destroyed EVERY copy of a manuscript you never want to see the light of day, because after you're dead, some self-serving snot will publish it for the world to see and who cares about your wishes in the matter.
Lasers diffract and require delicate optics to work.
That being said, firing bullets like crazy in space would scare the snot out of me. How'd you like to accidentally run across your own gunfire ten minutes into the fight? Now, how about trying to avoid the pattern laid down by a hundred ships? Those high-velocity rounds would keep going pretty much forever until they hit something.
The problem is finding a way to go faster without going at.
At v=c, all sorts of unpleasant mathematical things happen. At v>c, the math works again, except that you have an imaginary component in most of your equations (since you are taking the square roots of negative numbers.)
There's some interesting physics involved in relativistic FTL travel.
You're thinking John C. Bennet with his teachings on Spiritual Wifery. He was excommunicated for that and then went back east and started writing all sorts of fun things about the Mormons.
I understand that telling yourself Joseph Smith was total slime makes it easy for you to reject the message. Maybe the question you should be asking is: What makes the message so threatening that you have to find a reason to reject it? Personally, I suspect the answer is Joseph Smith brings God a little too close for comfort. If he was a prophet, and Hinckley is a prophet today, then that means God is here. Now. Watching you. A lot of people don't like that idea.
Check the math yourself. The link is readily available. (Which is pretty stupid if the church were trying to hide all this.) The ages were calculated from marriage date minus birth date.
Joseph Smith was killed in 1844. A marriage date of 1846 would make that a posthumous sealing. In fact, a good portion of the wives listed were posthumous sealings.
All I did was give a more representative sampling of the data and a reasonable observation.
If you look at the death locations for nearly all of these wives, it would seem they followed Brigham Young out to Utah, and many of them remarried. That would imply they remained followers of the faith even after Joseph's Smith's death, and married other men in the faith. Not the typical response of a victim of molestation or rape.
The fact is, the picture is not as simple as the parent tried to make it.
I'm sorry you feel so threatened by Mormonism that you have to attack it.
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Well, since Haliburton was awarded preferred status by Clinton after they had previously failed the bid process, they didn't have to bid on this project and were automatically awarded it.
Second, there are only two companies in the world that do what Haliburton does. The other is a French company.
Don't you just hate it when reality pops your little I hate America balloon?
This is very true. Their rape rooms, acid bath facilities and mass grave infrastructure were the finest in the world.
And, I'm fine with people having their own opinions until they start expressing them by blowing up school children, flying airplanes into buildings, and funding and training the same. Then I say, shut up and do as we think, or we'll come and kick the snot out of you.
Choke on it, but we are the good guys, here and they are not.
You know, making stuff up to promote an agenda just makes you look like an extremist kook.
Haliburton does not drill for and refine oil. They purchase it from subcontractors in Kuwait and ship it into combat zones.
It is fascinating to watch you Bush-hating zealots slide slowly down into insanity.
Translation: Anyone who disagrees with me is an idiot and should shut up because I am smarter and more informed than they ever could hope to be. In fact, they should just let me rule them and make all their decisions for them; they'll be so much happier in the miserable little superstitious peasant lives.
Pass me another bottle of cognac, comerade.
How far back are you going to take this stupidity? So, do we roll back Spain's occupation of Central Mexico? Well, then after that do we roll back the Aztec conquests of the native peoples living there for thousands of years? Next, do we roll back the Mongol invasions of China? The Spanish conquest of the moors, then push the moors back into Arabia and give the land back to the Spanish? Do we kick all the Arabs out of Jerusalem and give it to the Jews, then roll the Jews back into Egypt and give the land back to the Cananites? Then do we push the Saxons back out of Germany into Northern France, and the Germanic tribes out of central Europe and give it back to the Romans?
Because we could. That's the nature of the human creature. Don't kid yourself for a moment that if the roles had been reversed, we wouldn't all be on the reservation while the Iroqouis colonies of Europe were squabbling with the mother country.
You really need to study some world history.
That's been pretty much taken care of. Don't believe too much of what Dan Rathers or Peter Jennings tells you. Look between the lines.
For example, when CBS was showing footage of Iraqis dancing in the streets on learning of Saddam's capture, notice that lights were on all over the city, in all the buildings in the background, and throughout the neighborhood being filmed, and CBS made particular mention that this was a poor area of Baghdad.
OK, guys, getting your CPU too cold is just as bad for it. In my college days I worked in the Military Test unit for a fab. One of the things we had to do was cold soak test the chips. We used LN2 to bring the test machines down to anywhere from -80 to -170. We had a significant failure rate once we got much below -100.
iTunes only really runs on Windows XP (forget what they tell you about Win2K).
Win XP only makes up about 8% of the OS share on home PCs, which is only about three times higher than the share of OS X.
When you look at it that way, the numbers aren't too out of whack.
More likely, other MP3 manufacturers will scramble to support M4P on their players as iTunes popularity increases. Esp. next year when Pepsi starts to give away 100 million songs from iTunes.
Plus the fact that nobody seems to have gotten around to reporting it until 7 years after the fact (the first mention is some newspaper article in 1909).
The New Zealand claim just sounds too much like someone seeing a great invention and telling people: Well, hey, I did that first a year before they did. Well, no, I don't have any pictures, but my cousin Earl was there and saw the whole thing, right Earl?
Yep Ashcroft will be right there asking everyone coming if they are a private aviator. Anyone saying yes will be immediately locked in irons because we all know that private aviators are not welcome to the event.
Orvile and Wilbur Wright would have been ecstatic to have the President of the United States of America take a personal interest in their demonstration.
Sheesh. The energy people waste looking for things to whine about.
You know, the interesting thing is, nothing looks inobvious or novel AFTER the fact.
The selection of 60 for seconds in a minute, minutes in an hour was not arbitrary. The number 60 is evenly divisible by more numbers than any other number between one and one hundred. It's the extreme opposite of a prime number, if you will.
The same reasoning went behind selecting 360 for the number of degrees in a circle.
Doesn't work that way. There's a reason the second is defined as the basic SI unit of time. You start playing around with your basic units of measure, then all your derived units are screwed.
Now, if the folks at JPL make the Martian Second a derived unit, called a MarSec or something equally inane, but based upon the SI time unit of the second, then perhaps this will work.
That is, until someone forgets to convert units and we wind up with another hundred million down the toilet.
Man, it is going to be SOOOO much fun watching you guys when we begin to uncover cache after cache after cache.
I wonder how many ways you'll be able to say: Yeah, but America still sucks and I hate George Bush.
He may not be trolling. There are genuine, truly amazingly stupid idiots in this world who honestly think that countries like China and North Korea are freer, more just nations than America.
Um, let's see. China: Brutal, communist dictatorship with a secret police, forced abortion, internet censorship, Tianeman square massacres.
Taiwan: Democratic nation with freedom of speech and press and constitutional guarantees of liberty.
Every time a tyranny falls, the world becomes a better place.
The real tragedy is that someone has to explain this to you.
Is to make totally sure you've destroyed EVERY copy of a manuscript you never want to see the light of day, because after you're dead, some self-serving snot will publish it for the world to see and who cares about your wishes in the matter.
Lasers diffract and require delicate optics to work.
That being said, firing bullets like crazy in space would scare the snot out of me. How'd you like to accidentally run across your own gunfire ten minutes into the fight? Now, how about trying to avoid the pattern laid down by a hundred ships? Those high-velocity rounds would keep going pretty much forever until they hit something.
The problem is finding a way to go faster without going at.
At v=c, all sorts of unpleasant mathematical things happen. At v>c, the math works again, except that you have an imaginary component in most of your equations (since you are taking the square roots of negative numbers.)
There's some interesting physics involved in relativistic FTL travel.
Apache killed it. Apache runs 70% of the web. IIS receives 90% of the attacks and hacks.
Claiming that OS X sufers fewer hacks because it's a smaller market is a post hoc fallacy.
No, he's doing the reasonable Mac observance that 50 versions of a greeting card program does not count.
You're thinking John C. Bennet with his teachings on Spiritual Wifery. He was excommunicated for that and then went back east and started writing all sorts of fun things about the Mormons.
I understand that telling yourself Joseph Smith was total slime makes it easy for you to reject the message. Maybe the question you should be asking is: What makes the message so threatening that you have to find a reason to reject it? Personally, I suspect the answer is Joseph Smith brings God a little too close for comfort. If he was a prophet, and Hinckley is a prophet today, then that means God is here. Now. Watching you. A lot of people don't like that idea.
Check the math yourself. The link is readily available. (Which is pretty stupid if the church were trying to hide all this.) The ages were calculated from marriage date minus birth date.
Joseph Smith was killed in 1844. A marriage date of 1846 would make that a posthumous sealing. In fact, a good portion of the wives listed were posthumous sealings.
All I did was give a more representative sampling of the data and a reasonable observation.
If you look at the death locations for nearly all of these wives, it would seem they followed Brigham Young out to Utah, and many of them remarried. That would imply they remained followers of the faith even after Joseph's Smith's death, and married other men in the faith. Not the typical response of a victim of molestation or rape.
The fact is, the picture is not as simple as the parent tried to make it.
I'm sorry you feel so threatened by Mormonism that you have to attack it.