What about the bank shareholders? 94 have gone under so far this year and - aside from mutual fund investors, let the shareholders enjoy the invisible hand taking their money...
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
As I posted earlier, the password could easily have been passed to an enemy of the state and under Patriot Act I that's Aid to the Enemy in the "war on Terr" - and, don't forget that the District is a Federal Enclave. Yes, treason is overreaching, but the case can be made that it applies.
(1) I'm an attorney; and, (2) The District of Columbia is a Federal Enclave; and, (3) The passing along of the password to the owners of the company could easily be a pathway out to enemies of the state under the provisions of Patriot Act I; and, (4) I'm sick and tired of corrupt politicians/bureaucrats and would gladly eliminate the death penalty for all but that class (remember, it was Mark Twain who said that the US had no native criminal class, but politicians.); and, (5) Yes, treason is overreaching - but it got your attention; and, (6) As J.J. Cale said, "You'd be amazed at the things that you can buy with small change."
as if it were what it is: treason. This, cheaply bought bureaucrat, has sold her nation down the tubes for a pittance. Sushil Bansal, the owner of Advanced Integrated Technologies, made millions. Execute all three. Especially Advanced Integrated Technologies; it's high time for corporate death penalties that leave shareholders with worthless paper. Then we may see some responsibility at the top - not just profits.
I'm for stoning them at the base of the Washington Monument.
I only have 5 Apple.mac/.me accounts and even Apple knows that the rollout was so flawed that they gave us extra time on our contracts for the deficiencies.
Apple is getting better, but ISPs are choking upload speeds (even my business account that I pay $200/Mo for 6 megabits up and down) shows far slower data rates up over down to/from Apple.
Oh, give it up. NK is not a sleeping giant - it is a delinquent left over from the cold war proxy-wars. The best comparison is a kid with a molotov cocktail and a single match v. the entire U.S 5th Fleet.
The danger (and, costs to assuage your fears) are way out of line with reality. It is phantom risk.
In January 2004, Khan confessed to having been involved in a clandestine international network of nuclear weapons technology proliferation from Pakistan to Libya, Iran and North Korea. There is evidence to believe that Khan and his network are one of the worst proliferators of nuclear technology that can be used to develop nuclear weapons. However, owing to domestic pressure from radical groups, on February 5, 2004, the President of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf, announced that he had pardoned Khan, who is widely seen as a national hero. He is credited with helping Muslim countries to develop nuclear weapons.[2]
I'm as liberal as they come. I simply don't believe that the government ought to criminalize certain "vices."
Social services to help the families and the individual who spends too much (like a judge did in my community - and she is in jail - not receiving treatment) are fine by me.
Consider me an extreme social liberal - let everybody do their own thing within reasonable limits - like red lights, right-side driving, vaccinating and educating your children.... libraries, fire and police.
But leave the "gamers" and hookers and soft-dope dealers to the public health sector, we have shown that police and criminal charges don't accomplish anything valuable. They destroy lives.
Your massive craft size is due to shielding and shock absorbers -- and the impulse comes from massively dirty fallout. Hell, the article you link to contains more than enough information to show how impractical this idea is.
The only viable mechanisms to obtain low earth orbit is a rail-gun single-impulse launcher (for supplies, humans can't survive pulling that many Gs) and conventional chemical rockets.
We have already touched on the issue - it would be powered by banks of capacitors, giving a very limited number of discharges before the system was discharged.
How many dumb, but expensive, ideas can the Military-Industrial Complex come up with to rip us off?
China might nuke them first. They are an impediment to the growth of China's hegemony and if they start to try to muscle in with a nuke threat - China loses, too.
As far as "cool tech" I've had my fill of military waste. The program can end tomorrow.
As for "there's not much the US can do about NK's Nukes" is pure horsepucky.
We are still at war with that nation - we merely signed a cease fire agreement on July 27, 1953. We could easily decimate that nation with cruise missiles (loaded with the nukes that they were designed to carry) and simply exterminate the entire nation. They have done nothing yet to call for such a show of force, but it could easily occur as we only nuke Asia.
The fallout, both actual and political, would be massive and vastly negative for the US. So perhaps carpet bombing with MOAB & Bunker Busters an entire nation with the goal of genocide would be a "kinder, gentler" way of telling the world not to screw with the last superpower.
And, your point? I took enough stat not to have the slightest interest in casino games. I've also noted that the casinos have very high profit margins and that there are very few people wheeling out wheelbarrows full of winnings. The house is always the favorite and the "gaming industry" exists because of the loss ratio.
The reason Poker has become such a big draw recently is that it is impossible to cheat at Hold em.
None of this takes the Christian / Right Wing out of our bedrooms and our bodies and our ability to lose money to something that they can't make a buck off of. "Keep government off our backs" my muscular buttox. Those creeps nearly ruined this nation and I want it back. Tax Churches, not on-line services. You lose your money any way that you want.
Damn, I wish I'd thought up that prayer app for the iPhone!
Oh come on, the Christian loonies who want less government are the same loonies behind this - they want to regulate women's bodies and dope and gambling - but don't tax them or question their rights to call the president a Nazi.
How many people change their email addresses and won't receive your message - or have your death message filtered as spam?
How about the good old practice of giving real letters to your attorney and having the firm mail them after you die. Returned mail would be cause for the firm to track down the party who didn't receive the letter...
I merely point out that all lack the technology - TODAY - to create a viable threat to the USA.
Oh, haven't you heard the news - Pakistan is our ally... Why, we gave them the materials that they needed to make the Islamic nuke. Just like we gave Israel the materials that they needed for their nukes.
Face it - you have no hard facts that any of these nations is a clear and present danger to the US.
Put those launchers on the surface and several subs stationed in the Yellow Sea will nuke the launchers in under 10 min.
That would end N. Korea as an adversary and a nation.
What you propose is a threat by a few nukes with delivery systems that (1) do not exist; and (2) at most they could field 3-4 warheads; and (3) the preparation of those non-existent delivery systems to fire would trigger our first strike.
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How about corrupt politicians? No straw man there - try googling Duke Cunningham. That worthless pos is drawing his congressional retirement in jail!
I say: drop a concrete bucket on that whiny wimp and make him a man of the earth...
What about the bank shareholders? 94 have gone under so far this year and - aside from mutual fund investors, let the shareholders enjoy the invisible hand taking their money...
Agreed.
Article 3, Sec. 3 U.S> Constitution
Treason
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
As I posted earlier, the password could easily have been passed to an enemy of the state and under Patriot Act I that's Aid to the Enemy in the "war on Terr" - and, don't forget that the District is a Federal Enclave. Yes, treason is overreaching, but the case can be made that it applies.
Oh, yeah - love the WKRP quote!
(1) I'm an attorney; and,
(2) The District of Columbia is a Federal Enclave; and,
(3) The passing along of the password to the owners of the company could easily be a pathway out to enemies of the state under the provisions of Patriot Act I; and,
(4) I'm sick and tired of corrupt politicians/bureaucrats and would gladly eliminate the death penalty for all but that class (remember, it was Mark Twain who said that the US had no native criminal class, but politicians.); and,
(5) Yes, treason is overreaching - but it got your attention; and,
(6) As J.J. Cale said, "You'd be amazed at the things that you can buy with small change."
as if it were what it is: treason. This, cheaply bought bureaucrat, has sold her nation down the tubes for a pittance. Sushil Bansal, the owner of Advanced Integrated Technologies, made millions. Execute all three. Especially Advanced Integrated Technologies; it's high time for corporate death penalties that leave shareholders with worthless paper. Then we may see some responsibility at the top - not just profits.
I'm for stoning them at the base of the Washington Monument.
Nail one foot to the floor and let the mf ask why he always walks in circles....
I only have 5 Apple .mac/.me accounts and even Apple knows that the rollout was so flawed that they gave us extra time on our contracts for the deficiencies.
Apple is getting better, but ISPs are choking upload speeds (even my business account that I pay $200/Mo for 6 megabits up and down) shows far slower data rates up over down to/from Apple.
Oh, give it up. NK is not a sleeping giant - it is a delinquent left over from the cold war proxy-wars. The best comparison is a kid with a molotov cocktail and a single match v. the entire U.S 5th Fleet.
The danger (and, costs to assuage your fears) are way out of line with reality. It is phantom risk.
Rather the opposite - Pakistan gave nuclear tech to NK. See, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Qadeer_Khan
In January 2004, Khan confessed to having been involved in a clandestine international network of nuclear weapons technology proliferation from Pakistan to Libya, Iran and North Korea. There is evidence to believe that Khan and his network are one of the worst proliferators of nuclear technology that can be used to develop nuclear weapons. However, owing to domestic pressure from radical groups, on February 5, 2004, the President of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf, announced that he had pardoned Khan, who is widely seen as a national hero. He is credited with helping Muslim countries to develop nuclear weapons.[2]
You just said MAD worked in the 1960s - who needs another deterrent against NK?
NK is an ally of China? It is more like a boil on China's butt.
If we can invade Iraq - we can level NK. We would have China's approval - just lancing that boil for them.
I'm as liberal as they come. I simply don't believe that the government ought to criminalize certain "vices."
Social services to help the families and the individual who spends too much (like a judge did in my community - and she is in jail - not receiving treatment) are fine by me.
Consider me an extreme social liberal - let everybody do their own thing within reasonable limits - like red lights, right-side driving, vaccinating and educating your children.... libraries, fire and police.
But leave the "gamers" and hookers and soft-dope dealers to the public health sector, we have shown that police and criminal charges don't accomplish anything valuable. They destroy lives.
So what? If fools want to spend money this way - it isn't my problem.
Dream on, wizard. If the reaction could be contained you would still need the massive shock absorbers. That F=M*A problem for G remains...
Your massive craft size is due to shielding and shock absorbers -- and the impulse comes from massively dirty fallout. Hell, the article you link to contains more than enough information to show how impractical this idea is.
The only viable mechanisms to obtain low earth orbit is a rail-gun single-impulse launcher (for supplies, humans can't survive pulling that many Gs) and conventional chemical rockets.
Write when you solve that F=M*A problem for G.
We have already touched on the issue - it would be powered by banks of capacitors, giving a very limited number of discharges before the system was discharged.
How many dumb, but expensive, ideas can the Military-Industrial Complex come up with to rip us off?
China might nuke them first. They are an impediment to the growth of China's hegemony and if they start to try to muscle in with a nuke threat - China loses, too.
As far as "cool tech" I've had my fill of military waste. The program can end tomorrow.
As for "there's not much the US can do about NK's Nukes" is pure horsepucky.
We are still at war with that nation - we merely signed a cease fire agreement on July 27, 1953. We could easily decimate that nation with cruise missiles (loaded with the nukes that they were designed to carry) and simply exterminate the entire nation. They have done nothing yet to call for such a show of force, but it could easily occur as we only nuke Asia.
The fallout, both actual and political, would be massive and vastly negative for the US. So perhaps carpet bombing with MOAB & Bunker Busters an entire nation with the goal of genocide would be a "kinder, gentler" way of telling the world not to screw with the last superpower.
But we still don't need that ABL system!
And, your point? I took enough stat not to have the slightest interest in casino games. I've also noted that the casinos have very high profit margins and that there are very few people wheeling out wheelbarrows full of winnings. The house is always the favorite and the "gaming industry" exists because of the loss ratio.
The reason Poker has become such a big draw recently is that it is impossible to cheat at Hold em.
None of this takes the Christian / Right Wing out of our bedrooms and our bodies and our ability to lose money to something that they can't make a buck off of. "Keep government off our backs" my muscular buttox. Those creeps nearly ruined this nation and I want it back. Tax Churches, not on-line services. You lose your money any way that you want.
Damn, I wish I'd thought up that prayer app for the iPhone!
Agreed.
But, who is to say that the games aren't rigged? There is room for regulation - of the provider, not the end user.
Oh come on, the Christian loonies who want less government are the same loonies behind this - they want to regulate women's bodies and dope and gambling - but don't tax them or question their rights to call the president a Nazi.
How many people change their email addresses and won't receive your message - or have your death message filtered as spam?
How about the good old practice of giving real letters to your attorney and having the firm mail them after you die. Returned mail would be cause for the firm to track down the party who didn't receive the letter...
I merely point out that all lack the technology - TODAY - to create a viable threat to the USA.
Oh, haven't you heard the news - Pakistan is our ally... Why, we gave them the materials that they needed to make the Islamic nuke. Just like we gave Israel the materials that they needed for their nukes.
Face it - you have no hard facts that any of these nations is a clear and present danger to the US.
You are clearly easily excited.
Put those launchers on the surface and several subs stationed in the Yellow Sea will nuke the launchers in under 10 min.
That would end N. Korea as an adversary and a nation.
What you propose is a threat by a few nukes with delivery systems that (1) do not exist; and (2) at most they could field 3-4 warheads; and (3) the preparation of those non-existent delivery systems to fire would trigger our first strike.
What - you got stock in the development of ABL?