frankly, I would rather (in this order) the US, then Japanese, Italians, South Koreans, Germans, Poles, Dutch, Swedes, Australians and I'm running out of names, than the French.
If the UN gets their grubby paws on it, they'll ruin it.
Yes, but it won't please the "anybody but the US" crowd of whining nitpickers who will only ruin the internet. Imagine if the UN gained control?
God, that would be a train wreck. Like the oil for food program, the corrupt UN government would sell favors to irreputable people, siphon money, and generally bring the whole process to a stand still.
Damn, imagine, say something negative about China's leadership? Get your website, hosted in Idaho, taken offline. Say something about Tibet, or a Free Taiwan? Probably get jail time.
Of course, you would be free to show video and photos of heads being hacked off, slowly, while the screaming victim moans their last. So long as it's a US ally getting their head chopped off.
we can say, and we just did. no one is more capable or deserving of the task of maintaining the core of the internet than the US.
France? You were kidding, right?
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Programmers are meant to be great abstract thinkers but the number of posts bitching the Copyright Infringement not being theft amazes me. Just swap identity theft for copyright infringement and then repost and see how stupid you look. It's about as daft as the gun control lobby trying to claim that there is a justification in the Constitution for military assault weapons.
Since you opened the subject:
I suppose you would support using the police to enforce copyright infringement on the $20 scale? How about the RIAA thugs barging into homes and confiscating computers? Surely in cases where a million CDs are duplicated for sale on the black market, right? Surely then, the RIAA ought to be able to bring in their thugs, bust down some doors and recover their "property" right?
The framers and founders were very clear in expressing their thoughts on the subject. They believed in, and wrote about, throwing off the yoke of oppression whenever it occured. Having military weapons in civilian hands is the way you keep the nation free. They had them (civilian owned weapons as good as anything the military had), your great-grandparents could have them (anyone related to a rancher that purchased a Thompson.45 submachinegun?), and until recently, you had no government body infringing on your right to carry a lowly civilian pistol or long gun.
Shortly after the end of the second world war, things began to change.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Please note there is no mention of downloading the latest shitty music in the Constitution.
So now you have the threat of RIAA sponsored civilian militia infringing on YOUR RIGHT TO PROPERTY, LIBERTY AND SECURITY. And no way to defend yourself from such opression? Your right to property, liberty and security trumps their wishes to invade your home illegally with worms, viruses, and civilian militia. Think this isn't what the RIAA is up to? They sure are.
Today, I doubt anyone would be convicted if the homeowner opened up with a 12 guage when the RIAA burst through their doors looking for the latest Britany BS on hard drive. But of course, the RIAA will push local cops to get involved, the local cops won't care, it's $20 worth of music afterall. Not a real crime, one that removes liberty from citizens.
All that said, IMHO the real problem isn't the RIAA going after downloaders (or sharers), the problem I have is the RIAA taking royalties from artists who aren't members! Who is the thief now?
they should hook up a urinal to the inlet of this filtering setup, and add that reclaimed water to the mix. I bet if it cleans diesel exhaust enough to drink, it ought to clean urine just fine.
whatever happened to that, um, interesting topology, anyway?
it's lying in wait, secretly passing the token around in banks, large industrial complexes and universities. Until something breaks or someone with a budget complains that 16mbit isn't fast enough, it will continue to be used.
leave the lead at home and just dig a hole in the ground and live in that, or find an old lava tube.
surely there are open lava tubes still available somewhere on the surface of Mars.
yeah, I did that for Kodak's COLD people, writing software to facilitate reel to reel, 9 track, 8 track, 3270 and other tape formats, some really quite old, to cdr. Their stuff included indexing, conversion and what not, stuff TPS wouldn't need.
I'm sure Kodak has a ton of this hardware laying around somewhere too, those old tape drives don't die, and aren't on the list of "top ten things pilfered from your office" so unlikely to have walked off.
I'm in to fife and drum, and I made my own drum from parts. There are some that make their own hoops, shells and other pieces from scratch though, and that is pretty geeky.
Uniforms from broad cloth and shoes from leather are also pretty geeky things to do for the living history buff.
kidding, right? If they knew they could complete the work and create long nanotubes with $10 million, they would dump the cash into the project in a heartbeat because the payoff for the University would be huge.
They could make the $10M back in lisencing fees to industry without trouble, or spin off a new company and rake in the dough.
so what's to stop us from growing our own crops to convert to fuel in the back yard distillery?
5 pounds of corn meal to 5 gallons water and 5 pounds of sugar along with yeast and time.
it takes energy to boil the water... perhaps concentrated solar from reflectors? Only has to get to 170 something degrees F.
seems I have some relatives quite familiar with the fuel making process.
We find WMD in Iraq. We find weapons programs in Iraq. We find banned weapons and delivery systems in Iraq. We hear testimony from the people responsible admitting guilt in Iraq.
And yet I'm a stubborn sheep for believing it was a good idea.
At least I know what kind of a person you are, and that discussing the issues here on slashdot will get both of us exactly nothing.
So, what kind of beer do you like? That's a discussion that can at least change some minds.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was very upset last week that the US had shipped about 1.8 tons of low-enriched uranium and other radioactive material out of Iraq for disposition in the US.
shipped to the US for "displosal". So, not missing. I thought I remember reading something about the materials being dumped on the ground, and then cleaned up by US DOE people in bunny suits, I guess that confirms it. That took care of the 1.8 tons of hard stuff, the yellow cake was a different story.
There are other sites that quote the 1.8 tons of enriched stuff being carted off by the DOE.
The 500 tons of yellow cake, I'm still trying to find a recent link for. Somewhere I remember it being encased in concrete or something like.
This site even goes as far as to quote chief US weapons inspector (I know...) Charles Duelfer, 'also has confirmed that nuclear research at al Tuwaitha was continuing right up until the U.S. invasion, telling Congress in March that Saddam's scientists were "preserving and expanding [their] knowledge to design and develop nuclear weapons."'
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp ?ID=14295
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was very upset last week that the US had shipped about 1.8 tons of low-enriched uranium and other radioactive material out of Iraq for disposition in the US.
shipped to the US for "displosal". So, not missing. I thought I remember reading something about the materials being dumped on the ground, and then cleaned up by US DOE people in bunny suits, I guess that confirms it. That took care of the 1.8 tons of hard stuff, the yellow cake was a different story.
There are other sites that quote the 1.8 tons of enriched stuff being carted off by the DOE.
The 500 tons of yellow cake, I'm still trying to find a recent link for. Somewhere I remember it being encased in concrete or something like.
This site even goes as far as to quote chief US weapons inspector (I know...) Charles Duelfer, 'also has confirmed that nuclear research at al Tuwaitha was continuing right up until the U.S. invasion, telling Congress in March that Saddam's scientists were "preserving and expanding [their] knowledge to design and develop nuclear weapons."'
Of Blix: "He is also aware of the analysis that "Iraq has no active civil nuclear program or nuclear power plants and, therefore, has no legitimate reason to acquire uranium" unless it is eventually producing weapons-grade materials."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/10/8/112 44 7.shtml and others have reported:
'Jaffar Dhia Jaffar, admitted to the BBC earlier this year, "We had 500 tons of yellow cake [uranium] in Baghdad."'
500 tons of yellow cake.
1.8 tons enriched!
"nuclear research at al Tuwaitha was continuing right up until the U.S. invasion, telling Congress in March that Saddam's scientists were "preserving and expanding [their] knowledge to design and develop nuclear weapons.""
"was intentionally focused on research applicable for nuclear weapons development."
And, in fact, the Niger story isn't a lie, the no-link that Joseph Wilson came up with on his visit to Niger meant nothing other than he wasn't the man for the job, and the bogus document didn't refute the fact that Saddam had sought the materials in Africa.
He had the programs, material and manpower to get the job done.
Who is talking about Niger? That story is about as much bull shit as any human can take with Joseph Wilson being the chief slinger.
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/yellowcakeotherq uarries.html
Of Blix: "He is also aware of the analysis that "Iraq has no active civil nuclear program or nuclear power plants and, therefore, has no legitimate reason to acquire uranium" unless it is eventually producing weapons-grade materials."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/10/8/11244 7.shtml and others have reported:
'Jaffar Dhia Jaffar, admitted to the BBC earlier this year, "We had 500 tons of yellow cake [uranium] in Baghdad."'
500 tons of yellow cake.
1.8 tons enriched!
"nuclear research at al Tuwaitha was continuing right up until the U.S. invasion, telling Congress in March that Saddam's scientists were "preserving and expanding [their] knowledge to design and develop nuclear weapons.""
"was intentionally focused on research applicable for nuclear weapons development."
And, in fact, the Niger story isn't a lie, the no-link that Joseph Wilson came up with on his visit to Niger meant nothing other than he wasn't the man for the job, and the bogus document didn't refute the fact that Saddam had sought the materials in Africa.
He had the programs, material and manpower to get the job done.
No WMD in Iraq? When we've found yellow-cake uranium, illegal missiles, documents indicating the programs were up and running?
And we all know he supported terrorists. There's no doubt about that. Al Qaeda is a different story.
http://www.washingtondispatch.com/spectrum/archive s/000715.html
update: the voting discrepency was in error. So, one down. How many to go?
Can't stand the fact that the people decided?
Also, wonder what'll happen when it's down to 1 person 1 vote, the Democrats will be hard pressed to come up with way to steal an election then, eh?
same problem, different animal... we wound up shooting them by giving bow hunters licenses and openening a special hunting season. No one attempted to interfere and the problem went away.
Of course, instead of just starving, they were walking into roads and getting into trouble with the laws of physics.
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frankly, I would rather (in this order) the US, then Japanese, Italians, South Koreans, Germans, Poles, Dutch, Swedes, Australians and I'm running out of names, than the French.
If the UN gets their grubby paws on it, they'll ruin it.
Yes, but it won't please the "anybody but the US" crowd of whining nitpickers who will only ruin the internet. Imagine if the UN gained control?
God, that would be a train wreck. Like the oil for food program, the corrupt UN government would sell favors to irreputable people, siphon money, and generally bring the whole process to a stand still.
Damn, imagine, say something negative about China's leadership? Get your website, hosted in Idaho, taken offline. Say something about Tibet, or a Free Taiwan? Probably get jail time.
Of course, you would be free to show video and photos of heads being hacked off, slowly, while the screaming victim moans their last. So long as it's a US ally getting their head chopped off.
we can say, and we just did. no one is more capable or deserving of the task of maintaining the core of the internet than the US.
France? You were kidding, right?
Programmers are meant to be great abstract thinkers but the number of posts bitching the Copyright Infringement not being theft amazes me. Just swap identity theft for copyright infringement and then repost and see how stupid you look. It's about as daft as the gun control lobby trying to claim that there is a justification in the Constitution for military assault weapons.
.45 submachinegun?), and until recently, you had no government body infringing on your right to carry a lowly civilian pistol or long gun.
Since you opened the subject:
I suppose you would support using the police to enforce copyright infringement on the $20 scale? How about the RIAA thugs barging into homes and confiscating computers? Surely in cases where a million CDs are duplicated for sale on the black market, right? Surely then, the RIAA ought to be able to bring in their thugs, bust down some doors and recover their "property" right?
The framers and founders were very clear in expressing their thoughts on the subject. They believed in, and wrote about, throwing off the yoke of oppression whenever it occured. Having military weapons in civilian hands is the way you keep the nation free. They had them (civilian owned weapons as good as anything the military had), your great-grandparents could have them (anyone related to a rancher that purchased a Thompson
Shortly after the end of the second world war, things began to change.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Please note there is no mention of downloading the latest shitty music in the Constitution.
So now you have the threat of RIAA sponsored civilian militia infringing on YOUR RIGHT TO PROPERTY, LIBERTY AND SECURITY. And no way to defend yourself from such opression? Your right to property, liberty and security trumps their wishes to invade your home illegally with worms, viruses, and civilian militia. Think this isn't what the RIAA is up to? They sure are.
Today, I doubt anyone would be convicted if the homeowner opened up with a 12 guage when the RIAA burst through their doors looking for the latest Britany BS on hard drive. But of course, the RIAA will push local cops to get involved, the local cops won't care, it's $20 worth of music afterall. Not a real crime, one that removes liberty from citizens.
All that said, IMHO the real problem isn't the RIAA going after downloaders (or sharers), the problem I have is the RIAA taking royalties from artists who aren't members! Who is the thief now?
hmmm, drinking your own urine...
they should hook up a urinal to the inlet of this filtering setup, and add that reclaimed water to the mix. I bet if it cleans diesel exhaust enough to drink, it ought to clean urine just fine.
whatever happened to that, um, interesting topology, anyway?
it's lying in wait, secretly passing the token around in banks, large industrial complexes and universities. Until something breaks or someone with a budget complains that 16mbit isn't fast enough, it will continue to be used.
or what's good for the Goose isn't good for the Gander?
leave the lead at home and just dig a hole in the ground and live in that, or find an old lava tube. surely there are open lava tubes still available somewhere on the surface of Mars.
yeah, I did that for Kodak's COLD people, writing software to facilitate reel to reel, 9 track, 8 track, 3270 and other tape formats, some really quite old, to cdr. Their stuff included indexing, conversion and what not, stuff TPS wouldn't need. I'm sure Kodak has a ton of this hardware laying around somewhere too, those old tape drives don't die, and aren't on the list of "top ten things pilfered from your office" so unlikely to have walked off.
that's right, because CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS don't do exactly the same thing, with a different twist.
I'm in to fife and drum, and I made my own drum from parts. There are some that make their own hoops, shells and other pieces from scratch though, and that is pretty geeky. Uniforms from broad cloth and shoes from leather are also pretty geeky things to do for the living history buff.
kidding, right? If they knew they could complete the work and create long nanotubes with $10 million, they would dump the cash into the project in a heartbeat because the payoff for the University would be huge.
They could make the $10M back in lisencing fees to industry without trouble, or spin off a new company and rake in the dough.
Dude! Those Voltron toys were weapons in themselves. God help you if your dad sat on one.
so what's to stop us from growing our own crops to convert to fuel in the back yard distillery? 5 pounds of corn meal to 5 gallons water and 5 pounds of sugar along with yeast and time. it takes energy to boil the water... perhaps concentrated solar from reflectors? Only has to get to 170 something degrees F. seems I have some relatives quite familiar with the fuel making process.
so now I'm a stubborn sheep.
We find WMD in Iraq. We find weapons programs in Iraq. We find banned weapons and delivery systems in Iraq. We hear testimony from the people responsible admitting guilt in Iraq.
And yet I'm a stubborn sheep for believing it was a good idea.
At least I know what kind of a person you are, and that discussing the issues here on slashdot will get both of us exactly nothing.
So, what kind of beer do you like? That's a discussion that can at least change some minds.
crap, forgot the formatting again...
a sp ?ID=14295
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was very upset last week that the US had shipped about 1.8 tons of low-enriched uranium and other radioactive material out of Iraq for disposition in the US.
shipped to the US for "displosal". So, not missing. I thought I remember reading something about the materials being dumped on the ground, and then cleaned up by US DOE people in bunny suits, I guess that confirms it. That took care of the 1.8 tons of hard stuff, the yellow cake was a different story.
There are other sites that quote the 1.8 tons of enriched stuff being carted off by the DOE.
The 500 tons of yellow cake, I'm still trying to find a recent link for. Somewhere I remember it being encased in concrete or something like.
This site even goes as far as to quote chief US weapons inspector (I know...) Charles Duelfer, 'also has confirmed that nuclear research at al Tuwaitha was continuing right up until the U.S. invasion, telling Congress in March that Saddam's scientists were "preserving and expanding [their] knowledge to design and develop nuclear weapons."'
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp ?ID=14295
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was very upset last week that the US had shipped about 1.8 tons of low-enriched uranium and other radioactive material out of Iraq for disposition in the US.
shipped to the US for "displosal". So, not missing. I thought I remember reading something about the materials being dumped on the ground, and then cleaned up by US DOE people in bunny suits, I guess that confirms it. That took care of the 1.8 tons of hard stuff, the yellow cake was a different story.
There are other sites that quote the 1.8 tons of enriched stuff being carted off by the DOE.
The 500 tons of yellow cake, I'm still trying to find a recent link for. Somewhere I remember it being encased in concrete or something like.
This site even goes as far as to quote chief US weapons inspector (I know...) Charles Duelfer, 'also has confirmed that nuclear research at al Tuwaitha was continuing right up until the U.S. invasion, telling Congress in March that Saddam's scientists were "preserving and expanding [their] knowledge to design and develop nuclear weapons."'
ignore the poorly formatted entry ;-) should have used the preview button:
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2 44 7.shtml and others have reported:
Who is talking about Niger? That story is about as much bull shit as any human can take with Joseph Wilson being the chief slinger.
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/yellowcakeoth
Of Blix: "He is also aware of the analysis that "Iraq has no active civil nuclear program or nuclear power plants and, therefore, has no legitimate reason to acquire uranium" unless it is eventually producing weapons-grade materials."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/10/8/11
'Jaffar Dhia Jaffar, admitted to the BBC earlier this year, "We had 500 tons of yellow cake [uranium] in Baghdad."'
500 tons of yellow cake.
1.8 tons enriched!
"nuclear research at al Tuwaitha was continuing right up until the U.S. invasion, telling Congress in March that Saddam's scientists were "preserving and expanding [their] knowledge to design and develop nuclear weapons.""
"was intentionally focused on research applicable for nuclear weapons development."
And, in fact, the Niger story isn't a lie, the no-link that Joseph Wilson came up with on his visit to Niger meant nothing other than he wasn't the man for the job, and the bogus document didn't refute the fact that Saddam had sought the materials in Africa.
He had the programs, material and manpower to get the job done.
Who is talking about Niger? That story is about as much bull shit as any human can take with Joseph Wilson being the chief slinger. http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/yellowcakeotherq uarries.html
Of Blix: "He is also aware of the analysis that "Iraq has no active civil nuclear program or nuclear power plants and, therefore, has no legitimate reason to acquire uranium" unless it is eventually producing weapons-grade materials."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/10/8/11244 7.shtml and others have reported:
'Jaffar Dhia Jaffar, admitted to the BBC earlier this year, "We had 500 tons of yellow cake [uranium] in Baghdad."'
500 tons of yellow cake.
1.8 tons enriched!
"nuclear research at al Tuwaitha was continuing right up until the U.S. invasion, telling Congress in March that Saddam's scientists were "preserving and expanding [their] knowledge to design and develop nuclear weapons.""
"was intentionally focused on research applicable for nuclear weapons development."
And, in fact, the Niger story isn't a lie, the no-link that Joseph Wilson came up with on his visit to Niger meant nothing other than he wasn't the man for the job, and the bogus document didn't refute the fact that Saddam had sought the materials in Africa.
He had the programs, material and manpower to get the job done.
So, where did the yellow cake uranium in Iraq come from if they had no WMD or no WMD programs?
No WMD in Iraq? When we've found yellow-cake uranium, illegal missiles, documents indicating the programs were up and running? And we all know he supported terrorists. There's no doubt about that. Al Qaeda is a different story.
http://www.washingtondispatch.com/spectrum/archive s/000715.html
update: the voting discrepency was in error. So, one down. How many to go?
Can't stand the fact that the people decided?
Also, wonder what'll happen when it's down to 1 person 1 vote, the Democrats will be hard pressed to come up with way to steal an election then, eh?
how do you think they got the hole in the planet/donut?
I'm near Rochester, and agree that it is about time someone started using the cold lake appropriately. Lord knows you can't swim in it.
Ever been in the lake after an "inversion" event? Cold water from the bottom mixes with warm on the top causing hypothermia in August.
s/koala/deer/g s/KI/Rochester/g
same problem, different animal... we wound up shooting them by giving bow hunters licenses and openening a special hunting season. No one attempted to interfere and the problem went away.
Of course, instead of just starving, they were walking into roads and getting into trouble with the laws of physics.