I found out about the Project for a New American Century a few years ago. Back then, it was quite revealing to see names of the folks involved in the projects being those same folks that Bush nominated for his first Cabinet. Shortly thereafter, those names where removed and replaced with less known ones.
What's really scary is that Bush's foreign policy agenda unfolded very much like the bullet points for PNAC's objectives. Well before the invasion of Iraq, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Condie and several others considered it a necessity to fulfill their dream of a unipolar world. I'm not wearing my tinfoil hat, so I can't say that this ideal is the only reason we went to war with Iraq, but I can say that it seems pretty obvious that Bush's cabinet wanted to find a way to invade Iraq.
Remember, right after 9/11, Bush wanted his intelligence folks to find a way to pin it on Iraq, regardless of who was really responsible for the attacks.
My son loves playing computer games, like the flash games on NickJr, and the Jump Start games for toddlers and preschoolers. However, his favorite is the Tonka Dig and Rigs game. It comes with a set that sits on the keyboard with a steering wheel, horn, ignition key and four different levers for controlling different parts of the rig. My child loves using his hands, and this game is perfect for that. His coordination with the controls is amazing to see (my family members love to watch him play).
On the flipside, he loves action play, acting out scenes from books and movies, and reading books. He has us read with him morning noon and night. Video games are just one aspect of our child's vast play space. And that's how it should be. He has wanted to play on his computer for longer than what his mother and I deem healthy for the day, so we guide to other activities. It's what parenting is all about. We provide him with a many avenues to exercise his intellect that we can, and guide down those avenues in a way that makes his experience as positive as it can be.
I wonder if the Army's agreement with Micro$oft limits what operating systems their weapons can use. If they can only buy weapons systems running M$'s os, then the problem of the Army purchasing smart bombs will be eliminated.
But what was even more inpressive than the spec scores was watching the powermac squash the dual xeon in several applications from 3D video rendering, to photo editing, to audio processing, to mathematical calculations.
I'm a science guy, and for the calculations and simulations done here at the physics dept. where I work, the IBM power4 kills just about everything else. And when I saw the powermac calculate fractals with mathematica faster than the xeon box by more than a factor of 2, I was very excited (although a little cautiously) to see we will soon get power4 performance for well under $20,000
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Huh huh, "Well laid people with multiple partners" is redundant now isn't it?
I'd hope that the instinct of survival would prevent lovers' spats from having disaterous effects.
I found out about the Project for a New American Century a few years ago. Back then, it was quite revealing to see names of the folks involved in the projects being those same folks that Bush nominated for his first Cabinet. Shortly thereafter, those names where removed and replaced with less known ones.
What's really scary is that Bush's foreign policy agenda unfolded very much like the bullet points for PNAC's objectives. Well before the invasion of Iraq, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Condie and several others considered it a necessity to fulfill their dream of a unipolar world. I'm not wearing my tinfoil hat, so I can't say that this ideal is the only reason we went to war with Iraq, but I can say that it seems pretty obvious that Bush's cabinet wanted to find a way to invade Iraq.
Remember, right after 9/11, Bush wanted his intelligence folks to find a way to pin it on Iraq, regardless of who was really responsible for the attacks.
I hope no kids sportin' 8'' floppies will be able to dial into it.
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On the flipside, he loves action play, acting out scenes from books and movies, and reading books. He has us read with him morning noon and night. Video games are just one aspect of our child's vast play space. And that's how it should be. He has wanted to play on his computer for longer than what his mother and I deem healthy for the day, so we guide to other activities. It's what parenting is all about. We provide him with a many avenues to exercise his intellect that we can, and guide down those avenues in a way that makes his experience as positive as it can be.
I wonder if the Army's agreement with Micro$oft limits what operating systems their weapons can use. If they can only buy weapons systems running M$'s os, then the problem of the Army purchasing smart bombs will be eliminated.
I'm a science guy, and for the calculations and simulations done here at the physics dept. where I work, the IBM power4 kills just about everything else. And when I saw the powermac calculate fractals with mathematica faster than the xeon box by more than a factor of 2, I was very excited (although a little cautiously) to see we will soon get power4 performance for well under $20,000
When I tried to watch the film, I got this javascript "error":
There seems to be a problem with your system. Browser not Microsoft Internet Explorer
That's a problem?
We'll find WMD's in Iraq as soon as we plant them there.
No, I don't really believe this...
Ah, you must have put back on your tinfoil hat...