I was there in Jan 2005 and they had excellent hospitals (and doctors/nurses), an improving police force (that was learning about fingerprinting), and "basic services". I also toured some schools. Want to know what the school teachers told me? That under Saddam they made less than $10 a month, now they make $400 a month. Hmm, that sounds much better. I also had tea with a man who had his Doctorate in Physics but couldn't use a computer.
The big problems i saw centered around national identity and religions. For them, Family/Tribe was their Country and their town/village their allies. They didn't give a crap about the next town over. I visited a christian community who got along well with neighboring shia and sunni (and vice versa). The shia and sunni would kill each other on occasion for reasons i didn't understand. Most of the time it seemed related to something someone did years ago. The Iraqi people have long memories. Far better than Americans or Germans (the only other People i have lived with and know well).
As far as infrastructure went. The biggest failure i saw was in gasoline. Citizens would be lined up two days deep waiting in line for fuel. Fuel trucks were attacked/looted in-route to gas stations. Convoys protecting fuel trucks were bombed. You'd think a country like Iraq would have ZERO fuel problems. The second biggest failure was centralized electricity. I saw very little centralized electricity production. Instead of producing at a town/city level it was usually neighborhoods. There would be rat's nests of cables coming out of a generator and going to the nearby homes.
I'm partial to the Shia myself (who i spent the most time with). But before you say Iraq is worse off (because i doubt you've ever lived there), you should speak with an Iraqi about their views. I have. They have many interesting views on the subject.
They never removed the police force. They did however spend a lot of time and money renovating the police stations, training and recruiting new IPs, and of course.. protecting the police force from organized citizen attacks (think organized criminals).
As far as the Museum goes, i read it was looted before looters could even get inside.
An Army composed of soldiers that could decide whether or not to follow orders based on how they felt about a situation would fail. A soldier can refuse an order if it is illegal though.
We weren't talking about how much foxconn makes in profit though (which is far lower than Apple). Foxconn also makes a ton of other products.. those 1mil workers are not all working to make apple products.
I really don't think there are many ranters about "those 17 suicides". I mean, Foxconn is a huge efficient machine. 17 people make up a very small percentage. But you can admit it doesn't look good that they keep getting this kind of negative news cover. The US military also has a rather high suicide rate, people in general don't rant over it.
But it really just looks like an updated lilypad and not a new product. Which is allowed, of course, because the lilypad is open. But "designed from scratch" and then being based on the lilypad is sending mixed messages.
I liked the Anno 1404 series (Dawn of Discovery). Would play it a few hours each night with some friends. It was very disconnect tolerant too, unlike every other RTS out there.
2070 looked great but i was going to wait for the price to drop some. But now? I know i'd burn up the 3 installs in as many years:( Seems silly for an install limit on top of steam.
You failed to conquor iraq in 7 years You are of course referring to 7 years of nation building and occupation? Because it was conquered pretty quickly.
I don't think the pre-ww2 way of R&D would work with the US anymore. The US wants to stay ahead of everyone else and that means the company could ONLY sell the hightech stuff to the US. Which means the US will have to pay more for it and likely front the research costs. Also, you should note that the US doesn't like any of it's defense tech manufactured outside the country.
You realize that just because weapon A isn't as good as weapon B, that weapon A isn't broken. It just simply isn't an equal.
It's also extreme to say that because the US used a German arms company to improve it's main rifle that all US weapons platforms should be outsourced to Europe. I think the 416 is looking like on of the best battle rifle around right now.
mmm, isn't the 416 just the m4 with a different gas system? I wouldn't say that making the return mechanical instead of gas makes the internals essentially another rifle. And if that's true, the only thing that makes the AR platform unique in your view is the gas return? I haven't used an hk416 but google images makes it look nearly identical when disassembled. The bolt looks very similar.
I actually like the m4 and the hk416 looks like a good upgrade to the weapon.
Periodically opening dams and flooding portions of S. Korea and killing farmers. Making counterfeit copies of other countries' money. Starving his own people. Tell me he did those things for the benefit of his people.
There is over 10k artillery pieces on the border of N. Korea.. is that sane?
page 8 might be moving up. Neither cnn, bbc, foxnews, google, abc, msnbc, reuters, usatoday, or npr mention sopa on their front page. The two that had sopa were yahoo and cnet.
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Could you please explain to me what you think happened so that i can have a discussion/argument with you? :p
I was there in Jan 2005 and they had excellent hospitals (and doctors/nurses), an improving police force (that was learning about fingerprinting), and "basic services". I also toured some schools. Want to know what the school teachers told me? That under Saddam they made less than $10 a month, now they make $400 a month. Hmm, that sounds much better. I also had tea with a man who had his Doctorate in Physics but couldn't use a computer.
The big problems i saw centered around national identity and religions. For them, Family/Tribe was their Country and their town/village their allies. They didn't give a crap about the next town over. I visited a christian community who got along well with neighboring shia and sunni (and vice versa). The shia and sunni would kill each other on occasion for reasons i didn't understand. Most of the time it seemed related to something someone did years ago. The Iraqi people have long memories. Far better than Americans or Germans (the only other People i have lived with and know well).
As far as infrastructure went. The biggest failure i saw was in gasoline. Citizens would be lined up two days deep waiting in line for fuel. Fuel trucks were attacked/looted in-route to gas stations. Convoys protecting fuel trucks were bombed. You'd think a country like Iraq would have ZERO fuel problems. The second biggest failure was centralized electricity. I saw very little centralized electricity production. Instead of producing at a town/city level it was usually neighborhoods. There would be rat's nests of cables coming out of a generator and going to the nearby homes.
I'm partial to the Shia myself (who i spent the most time with). But before you say Iraq is worse off (because i doubt you've ever lived there), you should speak with an Iraqi about their views. I have. They have many interesting views on the subject.
They never removed the police force. They did however spend a lot of time and money renovating the police stations, training and recruiting new IPs, and of course.. protecting the police force from organized citizen attacks (think organized criminals).
As far as the Museum goes, i read it was looted before looters could even get inside.
An Army composed of soldiers that could decide whether or not to follow orders based on how they felt about a situation would fail. A soldier can refuse an order if it is illegal though.
mmm, the Iraqi Army wasn't there for law enforcement.. that is the job of the police.
Is there a new Petition for comment on Chris Dodd that is within the TOS?
I looked but searching for "Chris" doesn't even turn up the original petition.
We weren't talking about how much foxconn makes in profit though (which is far lower than Apple). Foxconn also makes a ton of other products.. those 1mil workers are not all working to make apple products.
I really don't think there are many ranters about "those 17 suicides". I mean, Foxconn is a huge efficient machine. 17 people make up a very small percentage. But you can admit it doesn't look good that they keep getting this kind of negative news cover. The US military also has a rather high suicide rate, people in general don't rant over it.
i have a copper-like envelope and can't scan the card when it's inside. It came with the card so i have no idea what brand or material.
Are you saying that billions in profit won't pay for better salary and waste disposal? 10k workers at 50k$ is 0.5bil$ per year.
But it really just looks like an updated lilypad and not a new product. Which is allowed, of course, because the lilypad is open. But "designed from scratch" and then being based on the lilypad is sending mixed messages.
I liked the Anno 1404 series (Dawn of Discovery). Would play it a few hours each night with some friends. It was very disconnect tolerant too, unlike every other RTS out there.
2070 looked great but i was going to wait for the price to drop some. But now? I know i'd burn up the 3 installs in as many years :( Seems silly for an install limit on top of steam.
The more you know: Drones have pilots, just not in the cockpit.
You mean ssh and ssl type connections?
You failed to conquor iraq in 7 years
You are of course referring to 7 years of nation building and occupation? Because it was conquered pretty quickly.
I think you have spent more time bashing php than looking at it. Google turned this up: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmq/
Looks like JMS for php.
Also, php isn't required to run through a web server. You can make cli and gui apps just as easily. Try to have a more open mind about the language.
I don't think the pre-ww2 way of R&D would work with the US anymore. The US wants to stay ahead of everyone else and that means the company could ONLY sell the hightech stuff to the US. Which means the US will have to pay more for it and likely front the research costs. Also, you should note that the US doesn't like any of it's defense tech manufactured outside the country.
You realize that just because weapon A isn't as good as weapon B, that weapon A isn't broken. It just simply isn't an equal.
It's also extreme to say that because the US used a German arms company to improve it's main rifle that all US weapons platforms should be outsourced to Europe. I think the 416 is looking like on of the best battle rifle around right now.
mmm, isn't the 416 just the m4 with a different gas system? I wouldn't say that making the return mechanical instead of gas makes the internals essentially another rifle. And if that's true, the only thing that makes the AR platform unique in your view is the gas return? I haven't used an hk416 but google images makes it look nearly identical when disassembled. The bolt looks very similar.
I actually like the m4 and the hk416 looks like a good upgrade to the weapon.
eh, sd card slot, hdmi out, and usb.. it appears to cover the peripherals and storage. There's also RCA video out and audio too.
The stuff you say is usually sane. That was not.
Periodically opening dams and flooding portions of S. Korea and killing farmers. Making counterfeit copies of other countries' money. Starving his own people. Tell me he did those things for the benefit of his people.
There is over 10k artillery pieces on the border of N. Korea.. is that sane?
who doesn't have piles of old tech in the closet.. just in case
Are you sure am3 cpus are discontinued? Google is only turning up rumors and nothing official from AMD to include second hand quotes.
page 8 might be moving up. Neither cnn, bbc, foxnews, google, abc, msnbc, reuters, usatoday, or npr mention sopa on their front page. The two that had sopa were yahoo and cnet.
Sexy video at the bottom of the LA Times link. Everything looked very normal.. boring.. and exciting at the same time!
Last i saw, music on iTunes and Amazon was drm free? No tracking or limiting of any kind.
"i'm a psychopath, here to kill you"
".. oh, i'll call the hospital for you GAHHH!"