In this case the US military lied over and over again saying that they only used it for smoke and marking.
I said: "That's simply a lie. The Army has always had it in their weapons inventory as an incendiary to destroy enemy fortifications to expose their position or to kill them in it."
That's simply a lie. The DoD claimed, prior to the recent flap, that WP was used solely for purposes of illumination, during the Fallujah massacre. They changed their story after the RAI footage
I said that was a lie. No source for the DoD or the Army making any such claim was quoted. That allegation was made up. It's not true.
Perhaps the BBC is making it up too,
when they quote US ambassador in London Robert Holmes Tuttle that US forces "do not use napalm or white phosphorus as weapons".
That doesn't contradict my claim that it is a lie that the DoD or the Army denied the use of WP in Fallujah. The Ambassador (an ex-automobile dealer and friend of Bush) is not affiliated with either the DoD or the Army. What does he know about weapons or the use of weapons in the Army? He's as clueless as Mike "You're doing a heck of a job, Brownie" Brown.
Perhaps the BBC is making it up too,
when they quote US ambassador in London Robert Holmes Tuttle that US forces "do not use napalm or white phosphorus as weapons".
And as I said earlier upthread (you did read that right?), Ambassador Tuttle is an ex-automobile dealer -- a friend of Bush who got appointed to the ambassadorship because of his connections, not anything to do with his knowledge of foreign policy or military weaponry. He spouted off before checking the facts. Pulled it out of his ass, in other words. He's clueless. You know, like Mike "you're doing a heck of a job Brownie" Brown.
Can we stop the "brits" thing. We don't go around calling the French, Germans or Polish "Europeans" yet we still get that crappy label (which very few support) from Americans.
We have nationalities, we're not from Britianland.
English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish are out because they don't refer to the whole country, just small parts of it. What do you want us to use -- UK-ers? Ukes? Yobbos? You name it, I'll be happy to oblige.
In this case the US military lied over and over again saying that they only used it for smoke and marking.
That's simply a lie. The Army has always had it in their weapons inventory as an incendiary to destroy enemy fortifications to expose their position or to kill them in it. See Army Field Manual 23-90 here (page 3-17):
Based upon use, the principal classifications of training and service ammunition for
the M224 mortar are as follows: ... White phosphorus (WP)--Used as a screening, signaling, casualty-producing, or
incendiary agent.
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Yesterday I saw a headline that said the US army finally admitted using phosphorus bombs
The Army has never denied that.
Just earlier that day US officials in London had denied using these weapons
There was only one official making that claim. He is Ambassador Tuttle -- a crony of Bush. His last job was an auto dealer for goodness' sake. He is not qualified to comment on Army weaponry, much less be the ambassador. He's clueless.
Robert Holmes Tuttle was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's on July 14, 2005. A businessman with extensive experience in the private sector, Mr. Tuttle is Co-Managing Partner of Tuttle-Click Automotive Group, one of the largest automobile dealer organizations in the United States.
You can't claim a vast government conspiracy to cover-up something simply because one idiot in London spouted off before checking the facts. Well, you can actually, but you will look like an idiot if you do.
But this was to illustrate how much simpler it would be to wait for the sun to rotate and take two images from that, rather than waiting for the earth to revolve around the sun. Remember the original post? "Can't we just take a picture, wait for Earth to revolve a couple degrees around the Sun, and then take another picture?" It was never to illustrate a substitution for the dual observatory program. Focus, people!
I did what I said and extracted two consecutive frames from the SOHO images and 3d-ified them with red/cyan images (so you can use your 3D glasses from Spy Kids 3D or Shark Boy/Lava Girl or some other 3D DVD you have at home). The left eye is red, right eye cyan. Consecutive images were too flat, so this is from frame 170 and frame 172 of the animated gif. I dropped it down from false-color to black and white to make it easier to see.
Some of the features have evolved. But the sphere shape is there as are some of the more macro features such as the corona and flares. The granules don't match up though.
Jeez, it rotates 360 degrees in 24 days. You don't have to wait for the earth to revolve around the sun a few degrees (slow), all you need to do is wait for the sun to rotate a few degrees (faster). Just take any two consecutive frames from one of those SOHO movies and there you are.
Here is an anti-gravity nuclear-powered spaceship. You know there was a time when they would reject this kind of nonsense. Is it time to re-file a patent on all those perpetual motion machines?
Space vehicle propelled by the pressure of inflationary vacuum state
A space vehicle propelled by the pressure of inflationary vacuum state is provided comprising a hollow superconductive shield, an inner shield, a power source, a support structure, upper and lower means for generating an electromagnetic field, and a flux modulation controller. A cooled hollow superconductive shield is energized by an electromagnetic field resulting in the quantized vortices of lattice ions projecting a gravitomagnetic field that forms a spacetime curvature anomaly outside the space vehicle. The spacetime curvature imbalance, the spacetime curvature being the same as gravity, provides for the space vehicle's propulsion. The space vehicle, surrounded by the spacetime anomaly, may move at a speed approaching the light-speed characteristic for the modified locale.
And talking about dividing up a country after war - why exactly did the US agree that the USSR was allowed to keep the part of Poland they conquered in the joint invasion of that country with Nazi Germany?
Because there was nothing the US could do about it.
I agree and think there should be a LARGE enclosed docking bay (using an inflatable structure perhaps?) so that components could be assembled, repaired, or inspected in a shirt-sleeve environment without having to work in bulky space suits. They could start by not discarding the shuttle main tank and bringing a modified version of it up (with an added hatch and docking collar perhaps) as a start.
Imagine building a large space ship from Ikea-style flat pack components. The Apollo lunar module is a prime candidate for this type of craft. You could reduce launch bulk considerably.
All these rules and regulations prevented me from finding the car that I wanted, and supporting a dealer or garage that had the car that I wanted.
Actually I think it was simply your greed in not wanting to pay the sales tax that prevented you from finding the car you wanted not any rules and regulations. You said you found several but didn't want to pay the extra money.
As far as the various warranties, that is just up to the preferences of the individuals living in the various states. For instance, Tennessee doesn't require liability insurance. Almost every other state does. Tennesseans would rather accept the potential loss of being in an accident with someone who doesn't have liability insurance and going ahead and insuring themselves against an uninsured motorist themselves rather than forcing the state government to interfere in a private business relationship. You may think differently. To each his own. That's why we have a federal system.
It's a seal. It's supposed to show that something is authentic! You can't allow a seal to be used willy-nilly or it utterly loses its purpose, even if the offending use is in paraody material Slashdotters apparently love.
I think similar laws are in effect for the use or reporduction of a notary public's seal for the same reasons. When my wife was a notary, I recall the laws were pretty draconian. Even using a notary public's seal in satire would not be permissible as it could lead to misidentification of it as authentic just as the use of the Presidential seal on this Onion web page is highly misleading.
Knowing that a kangaroo or ostrich can disembowel someone as well, and we know that -- we don't have to guess, they should simulate those to see if they can reproduce the effect with a reproduction of those animals' legs using their model. If they can't, then there's a flaw in their methodology. You have to use a control.
Oh yeah, that strategy worked so well for the Russians. How's that Russian cell phone you are using? Reading this on a Russian computer? How about your GLONASS receiver? Your Russian-built TV? Washer-dryer? Car? Tractor even? Combine-harvester?
Unless you are a third-world dictator needing some cheap airplanes, tanks, or guns, (with the sole exception of surplus rocket engines sold to NASA) I don't know of any area where the space-program advanced Russian high-tech exports.
This is serious and incredibly stupid.
Do not let this pass without contacting you Congressman and telling tham how incredibly stupid and short-sighted this really is.
It looks like the remains of sublimated ice/dirt from hoarfrost or something like that. Or the leftovers from a half-melted snowstorm on the side of the road. I've seen similar effects in the frost of my non-frost-free freezer. Definately not rocks/dirt like the moon or Mars.
It's time to wake up and realize that the U.S. is not a land of opportunity for the vast majority of people and the poor are constantly getting poorer.
Nonsense. Over a million people a year cross over from Mexico and it shows no sign of slowing down. There are waiting lists in EVERY country in the world (excepting where prohibited like N. Korea or Nepal) to get in on the green card lottery conducted every year. We have to have a lottery there are so many wanting in. And there are waiting lists to get in the lottery! So many want in that they just bypass the legal system altogether and risk their lives in the Arizona desert just to have an opportunity to work off the books for less than minimum wage!
You have no idea what conditions are like in the rest of the world. There's even a waiting list for U.S. green cards in more advanced countries like the UK, Germany, Canada, and France.
It's not that our poor are getting poorer, it's that as they move up the ladder, even poorer people from even worse off countries move in to take their places. My neighbor is an illegal from Mexico who owns his own pool cleaning company. He moved here four years ago. He now makes more money per year than I do.
What about "The Time Tunnel"? The list has "Quantum Leap" and QL is simply an updated TTT. Both were pretty much the same thing except QL overlayed a social commentary on the time jumps that TTT didn't.
Well we (you and me too) are all here on a Saturday afternoon reading (and replying to) Slashdot, ya know. That's already pretty nerdy and kinda implies we don't have too much of a life to begin with.
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I said: "That's simply a lie. The Army has always had it in their weapons inventory as an incendiary to destroy enemy fortifications to expose their position or to kill them in it."
That's simply a lie. The DoD claimed, prior to the recent flap, that WP was used solely for purposes of illumination, during the Fallujah massacre. They changed their story after the RAI footage
I said that was a lie. No source for the DoD or the Army making any such claim was quoted. That allegation was made up. It's not true.
Perhaps the BBC is making it up too, when they quote US ambassador in London Robert Holmes Tuttle that US forces "do not use napalm or white phosphorus as weapons".
That doesn't contradict my claim that it is a lie that the DoD or the Army denied the use of WP in Fallujah. The Ambassador (an ex-automobile dealer and friend of Bush) is not affiliated with either the DoD or the Army. What does he know about weapons or the use of weapons in the Army? He's as clueless as Mike "You're doing a heck of a job, Brownie" Brown.
And as I said earlier upthread (you did read that right?), Ambassador Tuttle is an ex-automobile dealer -- a friend of Bush who got appointed to the ambassadorship because of his connections, not anything to do with his knowledge of foreign policy or military weaponry. He spouted off before checking the facts. Pulled it out of his ass, in other words. He's clueless. You know, like Mike "you're doing a heck of a job Brownie" Brown.
English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish are out because they don't refer to the whole country, just small parts of it. What do you want us to use -- UK-ers? Ukes? Yobbos? You name it, I'll be happy to oblige.
Where's your reference? Who said it?
You are making it up.
That's simply a lie. The Army has always had it in their weapons inventory as an incendiary to destroy enemy fortifications to expose their position or to kill them in it. See Army Field Manual 23-90 here (page 3-17):
The Army has never denied that.
Just earlier that day US officials in London had denied using these weapons
There was only one official making that claim. He is Ambassador Tuttle -- a crony of Bush. His last job was an auto dealer for goodness' sake. He is not qualified to comment on Army weaponry, much less be the ambassador. He's clueless.
Here's his bio from the State Dept web site:
You can't claim a vast government conspiracy to cover-up something simply because one idiot in London spouted off before checking the facts. Well, you can actually, but you will look like an idiot if you do.But this was to illustrate how much simpler it would be to wait for the sun to rotate and take two images from that, rather than waiting for the earth to revolve around the sun. Remember the original post? "Can't we just take a picture, wait for Earth to revolve a couple degrees around the Sun, and then take another picture?" It was never to illustrate a substitution for the dual observatory program. Focus, people!
I forgot to add that the left/right images are 12 hours apart.
What do you think?
http://img487.imageshack.us/my.php?image=3dsun9li. jpg
Some of the features have evolved. But the sphere shape is there as are some of the more macro features such as the corona and flares. The granules don't match up though.
That's from about five minutes of work.
Jeez, it rotates 360 degrees in 24 days. You don't have to wait for the earth to revolve around the sun a few degrees (slow), all you need to do is wait for the sun to rotate a few degrees (faster). Just take any two consecutive frames from one of those SOHO movies and there you are.
Here is an anti-gravity nuclear-powered spaceship. You know there was a time when they would reject this kind of nonsense. Is it time to re-file a patent on all those perpetual motion machines?
Because there was nothing the US could do about it.
Imagine building a large space ship from Ikea-style flat pack components. The Apollo lunar module is a prime candidate for this type of craft. You could reduce launch bulk considerably.
Actually I think it was simply your greed in not wanting to pay the sales tax that prevented you from finding the car you wanted not any rules and regulations. You said you found several but didn't want to pay the extra money.
As far as the various warranties, that is just up to the preferences of the individuals living in the various states. For instance, Tennessee doesn't require liability insurance. Almost every other state does. Tennesseans would rather accept the potential loss of being in an accident with someone who doesn't have liability insurance and going ahead and insuring themselves against an uninsured motorist themselves rather than forcing the state government to interfere in a private business relationship. You may think differently. To each his own. That's why we have a federal system.
I think similar laws are in effect for the use or reporduction of a notary public's seal for the same reasons. When my wife was a notary, I recall the laws were pretty draconian. Even using a notary public's seal in satire would not be permissible as it could lead to misidentification of it as authentic just as the use of the Presidential seal on this Onion web page is highly misleading.
Knowing that a kangaroo or ostrich can disembowel someone as well, and we know that -- we don't have to guess, they should simulate those to see if they can reproduce the effect with a reproduction of those animals' legs using their model. If they can't, then there's a flaw in their methodology. You have to use a control.
Unless you are a third-world dictator needing some cheap airplanes, tanks, or guns, (with the sole exception of surplus rocket engines sold to NASA) I don't know of any area where the space-program advanced Russian high-tech exports.
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To say nothing of the sonarman's eardrums.
It looks like the remains of sublimated ice/dirt from hoarfrost or something like that. Or the leftovers from a half-melted snowstorm on the side of the road. I've seen similar effects in the frost of my non-frost-free freezer. Definately not rocks/dirt like the moon or Mars.
Nonsense. Over a million people a year cross over from Mexico and it shows no sign of slowing down. There are waiting lists in EVERY country in the world (excepting where prohibited like N. Korea or Nepal) to get in on the green card lottery conducted every year. We have to have a lottery there are so many wanting in. And there are waiting lists to get in the lottery! So many want in that they just bypass the legal system altogether and risk their lives in the Arizona desert just to have an opportunity to work off the books for less than minimum wage!
You have no idea what conditions are like in the rest of the world. There's even a waiting list for U.S. green cards in more advanced countries like the UK, Germany, Canada, and France.
It's not that our poor are getting poorer, it's that as they move up the ladder, even poorer people from even worse off countries move in to take their places. My neighbor is an illegal from Mexico who owns his own pool cleaning company. He moved here four years ago. He now makes more money per year than I do.
I guess that makes Peabody's Improbable History also sci fi.
What about "The Time Tunnel"? The list has "Quantum Leap" and QL is simply an updated TTT. Both were pretty much the same thing except QL overlayed a social commentary on the time jumps that TTT didn't.
Well we (you and me too) are all here on a Saturday afternoon reading (and replying to) Slashdot, ya know. That's already pretty nerdy and kinda implies we don't have too much of a life to begin with.