Environmentalists are biased toward communism. I've never had to listen to an environmentalist for more than two minutes before they're calling for the elimination of capitalism.
It's no big secret that all the communist activists went scurrying to the environmentalist movement when the cold war ended and Communism was discredited.
What part of the phrase, "a thousand years from now" don't you understand?
But is is an interesting question to posit. I wonder if people danced in the streets and threw flowers when the Romans marched into a country. There are several instances of this happening with America.
Then you must find slashdot to be unbearable comedy, only to be taken in short doses lest you laugh yourself to death.
From the hysterical rantings that a university doing genetic research on viruses is a black ops military program to conquer the world for American Imperialism(TM) to the wholesale shouting that there never were WMD in Iraq, slashdot is home to some of the most gullible people on the planet.
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No, it wasn't. It was one of the reasons, and not the primary one. The primary one was that Iraq posed a clear threat to the United States because it was rogue, had declared us an enemy, had tried to assassinate one of our nation's leaders and had a WMD PROGRAM and was seeking to obtain nuclear capability (both of which HAVE been verified.)
The threat was NEVER called imminent. In fact, the point was made that we needed to act BEFORE it became imminent.
When Iraq could not be turned from its rogue status by diplomatic means, we turned to force.
This is not hard to find out. You just need to go outside the liberal propaganda machine and find the actual statements.
The difference is that Christian leaders denounced the bombing, and the KKK and distanced themseves from it. You also conveniently ignore the fact that the Underground Railroad was largely run by Christians. Typical fallacy of Exclusion.
Islamic leaders embrace 9/11 and call for more, even american Muslim groups.
Also, I don't recall Christian private school texts containing prhases like:
"On judgement day, the trees and rocks will cry out: O Muslim, O servant of God, a Jew is hiding behind me, come kill him."
That is an actual quote from a school text in a DC Muslim elementary school.
-- tell you guys, the United States is making it damned hard not to start hate them and become anti-american.--
Oh please, spare us. You already hate the United States and are anti-American, or you wouldn't have made the idiotic comment about WMD.
Every freakin' nation in the UN knew Saddam had them.
It is going to be SO much fun watching you guys choke when we find the huge stockpiles, because you idiots don't even realize we haven't even searched more than 5% of identified weapons caches yet.
Then again, maybe not. You're in mass denial about the existence of Saddam's massive bio and chemical weapons programs, which we already HAVE found, so why should you face reality when actual weapons are discovered?
You'll just say something like: But the US has more, so we're more evil.
News flash for you. The third world hates us because its leaders are dictators who don't dare let their people see the freedoms we enjoy, and so lie to them and stir them up to hatred.
Another news flash for you. There is nothing we can do to make these dictators not hate us. What we can do is make them fear us so that they behave.
The reality is: The world is safer now because we beat the crap out of Sadaam Hussein. Other dictators and thugs are now afraid of us and are behaving, although this fear is being rapidly eroded by the press and the Dem presidential candidates, who are doing more to encourage and boost the morale of Al Qaeda than Al Jazeera right now.
Well, of course you should be because of your obvious intellect, insight and wisdom.
I mean, no one else would have ever realized that a free and elected government with a free press that could actually print a story like this without getting shot or thrown in jail was actually a rogue nation that, at any moment, would start invading dictatorships condemned by the other free nations of the world to help them write democratic constitutions of self-government.
Who cares what the international community thinks about it. 90% of the international community are dicators killing their citizens and most of the rest (like France, Germany and Russia) are busy selling weapons to the 90%.
Whenever I hear crap like this, I immediately realize we have a religious liberal on our hands. A religious liberal is one who is firmly convinced that his worldview is morally correct and opposing views are not just wrong, they are evil, and must be stopped at all costs.
To the religious liberal, there is nothing. I repeat, nothing that is more dangerous or frightening than a conservative viewpoint. To the religious liberal, Bush IS the antiChrist, and if left unchecked, will bring the kingdom of Hell to Earth. Nothing is more important than stopping him and those who follow him.
The atrocities of ruthless thugs like Kim il Jong are bad, no doubt, but nothing compared to the pure evil of conservatism. Therefore, the religious liberal will excuse ANY action by these dictators, because the evil of conservatism is his first and foremost priority.
The interesting thing is, if you let the religious liberal talk long enough, he will gladly tell you the source of conservative evil:
They are anti-abortion. This may also be followed up with: And they think homosexuality is deviant.
These two sins of conservatism are far more horrible than absolutely anything that any dictator like Saddam could ever do.
Yeah, right. That outbreak of bacteria with the modified IL-4 protein was just a natural occurence. No one's actually going to look at a corpse or do a culture and find the modified pathogen. No one's going to trace back to patient zero. Nah, they'll all just throw up their hands and say: Wow, a natural outbreak of a brand new, highly infectious disease we've never seen before with a 100% fatality rate. Isn't that weird? Boy, that mother nature, what a prankster.
--The moral of the story? While we may have good intentions when introducing something new to an environment to control a pest, we may also be introducing new, even worse problems unintentionally.--
None of which, of course, has stopped us from the whole sale management of ecosystems when we think the animal is endangered...
Only if the country had tried to assassinate a former US president, gave cash rewards to suicide bomber family members, had a terrorist training camp in the middle of their city, complete with airplane fuselage, and was ruled by a maniacal dictator with a history of torturing people to death and whose sons formed and led rape squads around the countryside.
But, then, facts tend to destroy your little fantasy that America is hypocritical because our government is more evil and corrupt than Pol Pot, so go ahead and keep drinking ANSWER kool-aid.
Breaking protocol here, but it was just a fun way to waste some time with a little classical physics.
In reality, none of the calculations make much sense because the hydrogen atoms would be moving at superluminary speeds, so we'd have to do all that relativistic stuff, and anyway, it's just a TV show, and it was a boring day at work, and since we're letting the ship go faster than light anyway, why worry about the impact of interstellar hydrogen, etc, etc, etc.
Interstellar vacuum holds about 1 atom of hydrogen per cubic centimeter.
According to the Star Trek encyclopedia, a ship's speed = (warp factor)^3 x c.
So, warp 10 is 1000c.
This translates to 3x10^11 meters per second or 3 x 10 ^13 cm/s
This means, each second, 3x10^13 atoms of hydrogen are impacting each square centimeter of the ship.
This gives us a total kinetic energy of 22.95 kJ/s for each square meter of the ship.
Let's see what that would do to Ten forward's windows, which are made from Transparent Aluminum:
Let's assume the windows are ten centimeters thick. A one meter square slab would then have the following properties:
Mass: 270 Kg Specific Heat: 243 kJ/K Melting point: 933.52 K Heat of Fusion: 1.08E+05 kJ
If you run the numbers you'll find that, at warp 10, the windows of Ten Forward will rise from a space normal temperature of 4K to the melting point of 933.52 K in 2.73 hours.
Assuming the soft metal didn't blow out at this point, the windows would gradually melt away over the next 1.31 days.
Mind you, this is in the deepest interstellar space where hydrogen molecules are at their thinnest.
Yeah, she was so dumb, that she called up the University to find out what the actual requirements from the University were and to verify her son's requests.
What is really dumb is confusing ignorance with stupidity.
Not really. Perhaps it was just for the example in the paper, but the sidebar still seems to suffer the typical Windows and Windows developer GUI problem: Clutter. It's almost as if they try to throw as much crap on the screen as possible to show everyone how powerful the software is.
1. Slashdot idiot disengages brain. 2. Slashdot idiot swallows America-hating propaganda like Monica Lewinsky in the oval office. 3. Slashdot idiot proves to the world he is an idiot by regurgitating swallowed material.
OK. TO correct your correction. The reason for going to war was to enforce UN Resolution 1441 which called for Saddam to declare and dismantle his WMD program. The Security council unanimously approved 1441 and unanimously declared Saddam in violation of 1441. The US, Britain, Poland, Austrialia and a few other Eastern European nations were the only countries with the backbone to actually enforce the resolution.
BTW, the Kay report shows that Saddam had a massive program in place. They discovered that he could have ramped the nation up to the production of several tons of biochemical agents per month a few months after the word was given.
Weapons have not been discovered as of yet, but there definitely was an extensive program to manufacture. In clear violation of UN resolution 1441.
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Environmentalists are biased toward communism. I've never had to listen to an environmentalist for more than two minutes before they're calling for the elimination of capitalism.
It's no big secret that all the communist activists went scurrying to the environmentalist movement when the cold war ended and Communism was discredited.
What part of the phrase, "a thousand years from now" don't you understand?
But is is an interesting question to posit. I wonder if people danced in the streets and threw flowers when the Romans marched into a country. There are several instances of this happening with America.
Easy. It's called screen clutter and widget placement. You can tell a LOT about usability from a screen shot.
Why do you think that good GUI development consists of doing screen mockups before actual code is written?
Every million more songs iTunes sells makes this argument more and more meaningless, and the people who promote it look more and more stupid.
For (almost) nothing? Wow. Come work for me, since you obviously work for free or for "almost" nothing. I'll pay you in pizza and beer.
Then you must find slashdot to be unbearable comedy, only to be taken in short doses lest you laugh yourself to death.
From the hysterical rantings that a university doing genetic research on viruses is a black ops military program to conquer the world for American Imperialism(TM) to the wholesale shouting that there never were WMD in Iraq, slashdot is home to some of the most gullible people on the planet.
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The nice thing about positive karma is you can troll and flamebait...
No, it wasn't. It was one of the reasons, and not the primary one. The primary one was that Iraq posed a clear threat to the United States because it was rogue, had declared us an enemy, had tried to assassinate one of our nation's leaders and had a WMD PROGRAM and was seeking to obtain nuclear capability (both of which HAVE been verified.)
The threat was NEVER called imminent. In fact, the point was made that we needed to act BEFORE it became imminent.
When Iraq could not be turned from its rogue status by diplomatic means, we turned to force.
This is not hard to find out. You just need to go outside the liberal propaganda machine and find the actual statements.
Because we're a FEDERAL REPUBLIC.
Man, civics education sucks in this country.
The difference is that Christian leaders denounced the bombing, and the KKK and distanced themseves from it. You also conveniently ignore the fact that the Underground Railroad was largely run by Christians. Typical fallacy of Exclusion.
Islamic leaders embrace 9/11 and call for more, even american Muslim groups.
Also, I don't recall Christian private school texts containing prhases like:
"On judgement day, the trees and rocks will cry out: O Muslim, O servant of God, a Jew is hiding behind me, come kill him."
That is an actual quote from a school text in a DC Muslim elementary school.
-- tell you guys, the United States is making it damned hard not to start hate them and become anti-american.--
Oh please, spare us. You already hate the United States and are anti-American, or you wouldn't have made the idiotic comment about WMD.
Every freakin' nation in the UN knew Saddam had them.
It is going to be SO much fun watching you guys choke when we find the huge stockpiles, because you idiots don't even realize we haven't even searched more than 5% of identified weapons caches yet.
Then again, maybe not. You're in mass denial about the existence of Saddam's massive bio and chemical weapons programs, which we already HAVE found, so why should you face reality when actual weapons are discovered?
You'll just say something like: But the US has more, so we're more evil.
Sheesh. So predictable.
News flash for you. The third world hates us because its leaders are dictators who don't dare let their people see the freedoms we enjoy, and so lie to them and stir them up to hatred.
Another news flash for you. There is nothing we can do to make these dictators not hate us. What we can do is make them fear us so that they behave.
The reality is: The world is safer now because we beat the crap out of Sadaam Hussein. Other dictators and thugs are now afraid of us and are behaving, although this fear is being rapidly eroded by the press and the Dem presidential candidates, who are doing more to encourage and boost the morale of Al Qaeda than Al Jazeera right now.
Well, of course you should be because of your obvious intellect, insight and wisdom.
I mean, no one else would have ever realized that a free and elected government with a free press that could actually print a story like this without getting shot or thrown in jail was actually a rogue nation that, at any moment, would start invading dictatorships condemned by the other free nations of the world to help them write democratic constitutions of self-government.
Who cares what the international community thinks about it. 90% of the international community are dicators killing their citizens and most of the rest (like France, Germany and Russia) are busy selling weapons to the 90%.
Whenever I hear crap like this, I immediately realize we have a religious liberal on our hands. A religious liberal is one who is firmly convinced that his worldview is morally correct and opposing views are not just wrong, they are evil, and must be stopped at all costs.
To the religious liberal, there is nothing. I repeat, nothing that is more dangerous or frightening than a conservative viewpoint. To the religious liberal, Bush IS the antiChrist, and if left unchecked, will bring the kingdom of Hell to Earth. Nothing is more important than stopping him and those who follow him.
The atrocities of ruthless thugs like Kim il Jong are bad, no doubt, but nothing compared to the pure evil of conservatism. Therefore, the religious liberal will excuse ANY action by these dictators, because the evil of conservatism is his first and foremost priority.
The interesting thing is, if you let the religious liberal talk long enough, he will gladly tell you the source of conservative evil:
They are anti-abortion. This may also be followed up with: And they think homosexuality is deviant.
These two sins of conservatism are far more horrible than absolutely anything that any dictator like Saddam could ever do.
Yeah, right. That outbreak of bacteria with the modified IL-4 protein was just a natural occurence. No one's actually going to look at a corpse or do a culture and find the modified pathogen. No one's going to trace back to patient zero. Nah, they'll all just throw up their hands and say: Wow, a natural outbreak of a brand new, highly infectious disease we've never seen before with a 100% fatality rate. Isn't that weird? Boy, that mother nature, what a prankster.
Give me a break.
--The moral of the story? While we may have good intentions when introducing something new to an environment to control a pest, we may also be introducing new, even worse problems unintentionally.--
None of which, of course, has stopped us from the whole sale management of ecosystems when we think the animal is endangered...
Only if the country had tried to assassinate a former US president, gave cash rewards to suicide bomber family members, had a terrorist training camp in the middle of their city, complete with airplane fuselage, and was ruled by a maniacal dictator with a history of torturing people to death and whose sons formed and led rape squads around the countryside.
But, then, facts tend to destroy your little fantasy that America is hypocritical because our government is more evil and corrupt than Pol Pot, so go ahead and keep drinking ANSWER kool-aid.
Breaking protocol here, but it was just a fun way to waste some time with a little classical physics.
In reality, none of the calculations make much sense because the hydrogen atoms would be moving at superluminary speeds, so we'd have to do all that relativistic stuff, and anyway, it's just a TV show, and it was a boring day at work, and since we're letting the ship go faster than light anyway, why worry about the impact of interstellar hydrogen, etc, etc, etc.
Interstellar vacuum holds about 1 atom of hydrogen per cubic centimeter.
According to the Star Trek encyclopedia, a ship's speed = (warp factor)^3 x c.
So, warp 10 is 1000c.
This translates to 3x10^11 meters per second or 3 x 10 ^13 cm/s
This means, each second, 3x10^13 atoms of hydrogen are impacting each square centimeter of the ship.
This gives us a total kinetic energy of 22.95 kJ/s for each square meter of the ship.
Let's see what that would do to Ten forward's windows, which are made from Transparent Aluminum:
Let's assume the windows are ten centimeters thick. A one meter square slab would then have the following properties:
Mass: 270 Kg
Specific Heat: 243 kJ/K
Melting point: 933.52 K
Heat of Fusion: 1.08E+05 kJ
If you run the numbers you'll find that, at warp 10, the windows of Ten Forward will rise from a space normal temperature of 4K to the melting point of 933.52 K in 2.73 hours.
Assuming the soft metal didn't blow out at this point, the windows would gradually melt away over the next 1.31 days.
Mind you, this is in the deepest interstellar space where hydrogen molecules are at their thinnest.
Yeah, she was so dumb, that she called up the University to find out what the actual requirements from the University were and to verify her son's requests.
What is really dumb is confusing ignorance with stupidity.
Sheesh. If this thing is only half as hard to use as Dell's website, it's a waste of money.
Not really. Perhaps it was just for the example in the paper, but the sidebar still seems to suffer the typical Windows and Windows developer GUI problem: Clutter. It's almost as if they try to throw as much crap on the screen as possible to show everyone how powerful the software is.
1. Slashdot idiot disengages brain.
2. Slashdot idiot swallows America-hating propaganda like Monica Lewinsky in the oval office.
3. Slashdot idiot proves to the world he is an idiot by regurgitating swallowed material.
OK. TO correct your correction. The reason for going to war was to enforce UN Resolution 1441 which called for Saddam to declare and dismantle his WMD program. The Security council unanimously approved 1441 and unanimously declared Saddam in violation of 1441. The US, Britain, Poland, Austrialia and a few other Eastern European nations were the only countries with the backbone to actually enforce the resolution.
BTW, the Kay report shows that Saddam had a massive program in place. They discovered that he could have ramped the nation up to the production of several tons of biochemical agents per month a few months after the word was given.
Weapons have not been discovered as of yet, but there definitely was an extensive program to manufacture. In clear violation of UN resolution 1441.
This was modded as Informative?!? Good grief. Dude, the Matrix was just a movie, alright?