However since Bush declared "mission accomplished" (I am therefore NOT even counting any deaths caused by the actual battle for Iraq) there have been over two THOUSAND american soldier and civilian deaths, and over forteen THOUSAND wounded. Note that the four UK 7/7 bus&train bombs killed 56 people. So our death toll since Bush declared "mission accomplished" is the same as 36 UK 7/7 style quad bombings or 144 individual transit bombs. That's the same as one US public transit bomb every 6 days, or one UK 7/7 style quad bombing event every 24 days.
I agree the statement from Bush was hasty and shortsighted in the arena of public relations. However, given the situation at the time, I cannot say I wouldn't have said the same thing too. My understanding of the statement "mission accomplished" was really to the point of boosting soldier moral. At lets be honest here. After all the hard work and dedication by these men and women, they deserve kudos.
As for the death of our soldiers, that is nothing when you look at the larger picture. In fact, the amount of deaths you mentioned is proof of a job well done. I'm sorry, but you've lost total perpective when it comes to the history of warfare (read about World War 2). Fact is, freedom has its price and it always will simply because of the human modus operandi. If you can change humanity at the genetic level, then we can talk about preventing war. Untill the, an orginized military will always be required in a civilized country.
As for your statements about losing this war, your wrong. We have made so much progress it's extraordinary!.
We haven't heard from Bin Laden. Chances are, he's dead. Not because we killed him, but because putting him on the run kept him from acquiring the medical attention he needs such as access to a dialysis machine. If in fact if he is dead, don't expect to hear an offical word about it from Al-Qaeda.
The support from Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, and Iraq has yeiled success. The amount of interception of communications from these cells have proven their moral is next to non-existance. While terrorist cell orginizations have a strategic advantage of being autonomous, they also lack independent leadership. What we are doing is exploiting this lack of leadership by going after the main figure-heads. To this date, Al-Qaeda is still alive but severly fracture and disorganized.
While we are still far from winning this war, I can say with absolute assurance that we (the civilized world) are making progress. Because of the fostering of democrocies now in the middle east, it will evaporate potential breeding grounds for extreme and inhumane activies.
I know that harddrive manufacturs offer a free utility that will write 0's on the entire drive. But what I want is to see in additional option to have it write all 1's, then start over with 0's and back again. I would assume that flipping the bits back and forth a few times would flip the fields completely accross all platters making data recovery impossible...or so I would think.
Just wait till Apple develops the "Nanite". With this little bugger, you simply swallow a pill that contains the Nanite. Eventually in less then an hour, it will attach itself to your brain.
To use: simply think of the commands and the music will start playing in your head. Should there be a malfuction in the "stop" command, please use the enclosed gun pre-loaded with one bullet.
Note: Don't miss. You do not want to miss. For further instructions please call us at our toll free 1-800 number.
But you know something, it might just work. The idea is to get your message out loud and clear in times when the market is quite. Thus, everyone takes notice at you.
Personally, I find the "bold ad campaign" and oldie-but-goodie method.
Islamic terrorists are attacking all around the globe in verious countries regardless of race/color. And yet durring these past 5 years, we have not had a single islamic terrorist attack on US soil. This could because of
1. Islamic radicals and their terrorist orginizations are to stupid to pull off another attack in the US.
or
2. The Bush administration is actually doing something correct with homeland security to stop and/or prevent such attacks.
1.) Because it's barbaric in human rights (mainly agains women).
2.) It's anti-democratic and pro-theocratic. According to the teachings in the Koran, Democrocy is a form of "hubris" and thus demeans servitude to Alah. Keep in mind, the english translation of Islam means "To submit one's self (to god)" or "Submission"
So to answer your question, why should I be the pacifist fool and give up my personal freedoms to some myth you call a god?
Because we do not wish to embrace the radical teachings of the Koran and disregard democrocy. According to these wack-jobs, democrocy is a form of hubris that steps beyond the laws written in the Koran. As such, democrocy is goes against Alah. Theocratic rule is the ONLY form of acceptable government.
Note: Islam is translated roughly as "Submission" or "To surrender one's self (to God)"
If you get the rest of the Islamic world on your side, they'll be trivially easy to defeat.
That is VERY hard to do. Even among peaceful muslims, there is this duty and form of honor to never turn against another muslim regardless of thier evil deads. It's like turning against a brother or syster. All muslims see eachother as a family unit. Even though they see Al Quaeda as radical, they will never turn against them as it would be a great dishonor in their own culture. The best you can hope for is they will just turn a blind eye and not associate themselves with this group. That said however, they will also not prevent us for dealing with their miss guided breathren. In a nut shell, don't expect any help from the Islamic community to solve our problems.
What? The UK has been living with terrorism for years (strangely enough, mainly funded out of the US). We know what it is, we know how to continue living our lives without running around like scared kids with machine guns.
Ya, but unlike the political feuds from the IRA, these Islamic terrorist are blowing *themselves* up. How do you rationalise with a terror group that doesn't even value his or her own life? Speaking of the IRA, after the attacks of 911, they more or less layed low. They know it was best not to be associated with their level of radicalism. At least there was always a hope of making peace with the IRA through political means....but Al Quaeda, no. Not unless you submit to the Korean and it's teaching. There is no middle compromise. Don't even try and argue this fact.
The problem is, GWB has no interest in "other methods", which makes me think that he is more interested in the fighting than in the resolving.
Wha there. Look, I'm not huge fan of Bush (though I did vote for him), but what "other methods" is he over looking? What would you have done different?
Fact is, we cannot make peace with these Islamic radicals. Either they drop their weapons and live a peacefull life, or we hunt them down in their neighborhood. I don't wish for war by any means, but when push comes to shove, you cant just take the hit in hopes they will never bother you again. It would seem the UK is just now starting to realise this at a personal level. And if I say so myself, they executed a response much more quickly and efficiently then our government in the US.
Funny I would say this, but the Pentagon should be taking notes from the UK. Talk about a job well done (except for that last part of gunning down an innocent brazilian..oops):)
I'm curious. I wonder how many of the supernovae in this universe were artificial? Why take out a planet when you can oblitorate an entire solar system...and then some.
Are you going to tell me that open US boarders along Mexico and their government wont keep track what goes inside the boarders of THEIR country. Once a suitcase nuke gets transported on an 18 wheeler and passed the boarder to inside the US, we are totally, royally, and utterly FUCKED.
Fact is, an Islamic wackjob WILL detonate this as a nuclear carbomb all in the name of Alah and the profit Mohamid. For the love off all that is logic an pure in this world, open your eyes! We are not fighting "terrorism" we are fighting a holy war waged against western civilization. So lets drop the political correctness bullshit and call it what it is. It's a HOLY WAR, pure and simple!
When "Death to America, death to Ireal" is chanted at the end of Irans parliamentry sessions much in the same fasion you might say "Amen" in church...do you really thing we should not take them seriously?
the idea of "preemptive nuclear strike" is not just radical, it's insane
But you know what the real sad thing of it is? It's Necessary as history has shown it to be.
Do you really think freedom-loving-minding-our-own-personal-business "want" to be launching nukes? Hell no! In fact, no one does....except the brain washed commies and religious zelots.
Due to the hard-lined quotes from N. Korea about also being reserved the right to "First strike", and the obstinate Iran, this really should come to no surprise. What the announcement does is officially flex our muscle to the rest of the world along these lines of "Do NOT even fuck with us".
So to Iran and N. Korea, you better not be playing games. Nuclear proliferation will never be tolerated. If you sell those bombs on the black market, expect your nuclear reprocessing plants to be obliterated. And if you're lucky, we will spare your regime too.
Well the DOD does have does have some super computer cluster from IBM last I heard on slashdot. The sole purpose is to run virtual nuclear detonations to ensure the trigers used in our old stockpile will still work correctly.
I suppose with these simulations, you could take the supercomputer models of the weather and combine them with this. I would be interesting to see an effect if any at all.
Though honestly, I would imagine at best it might knock a hurricane down a "catagory" for a moment (a day maybe?) and then it will go back up to it's original strength.
I totally agree. I mean, when these terrorists (not solders of a sovereign nation) are treated at "Club Gitmo" better then our own prisoners in the US...something is very very wrong.
You know, SOME of those being held in "Club Gitmo" get no less then two bullets in the head.
The quickest way to turn people off about your theories is to act all hubris. While it's one thing to be confident, it's quite another to act like "my shit doesn't stink"
Maybe Wolfram should take some of his own advice about intuition in regards to how to present information to the public.
No, I'm not speaking of creationism as put forth by the Bible. I speaking of evolution, but the external enviromental events that shaped the outcome of evolution was tied to an omni-present force whome I call "God". What some call chaos in the universe, I call order beyond comprehension.
1) faith should never be blind. 2) if you would not put your faith to the test, what good is it?
Why not? You don't worry about being hit hit by a car, or being shot at when you walk out the front door of your house do you? If you don't, then you have faith in your own future as one with a good out look.
Why my faith is purely blind, stupid, ignorant, and/or unintelligent; I still hold onto such ideals as my only salvation into the afterlife. Because science cannot answer questions such as the "soul, God, afterlife..etc", I feel compelled to have faith in these things.
Let me ask you something. Have you ever wondered what or who you were before you were born? Ever wonder what will happen to your consciousness? While science may paint a bleak picture of something to the effect of "you live you die and that's it", do you really feel a sense of closure and fullfillness?
To bad this topic is taboo because it'd be pretty interesting to study.
Here is my personal study based on observations in America. Birth statistics will very greatly depending on country and culture however.
African Americans = Violent and very athletic. They tend to have large families
Caucasians = Smarter then African Americans, but lack their superior athletic body. Caucasians however are very adaptable to differences in climatic change. They tend to have the moderate size families.
Asians = Highly Intelligent and cunning compaired to Caucasians and African American. They have the least athletic bodies. They tend to have the smallest size families.
Whether or not there is scientific data to back up my personal observations, I don't see one "race" having any advantage over the other. What I do notice however, is that nature loves to play around with different survival strategies with all life on Earth. As such, we not look at the Human species as an exception to this rule.
And unfortunately, in this country, there is a strong selective pressure against intelligence.
I got news for you. It takes quite a bit of collective intelligence to foster and maintain productivity based on our system of capitalism. Also might I add, that the higher your college degree alumni prestige is, the greater your chance for a better paying wage.
This is just my 2 cents, so have at it what you will...
I personally, DO believe in "Intelligent Design" but only based on faith and not science. I would never try and put fourth blind faith in the relm of science. Even if I would (or could), it wouldn't go any farther then a hypothesis at best.
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However since Bush declared "mission accomplished" (I am therefore NOT even counting any deaths caused by the actual battle for Iraq) there have been over two THOUSAND american soldier and civilian deaths, and over forteen THOUSAND wounded. Note that the four UK 7/7 bus&train bombs killed 56 people. So our death toll since Bush declared "mission accomplished" is the same as 36 UK 7/7 style quad bombings or 144 individual transit bombs. That's the same as one US public transit bomb every 6 days, or one UK 7/7 style quad bombing event every 24 days.
I agree the statement from Bush was hasty and shortsighted in the arena of public relations. However, given the situation at the time, I cannot say I wouldn't have said the same thing too. My understanding of the statement "mission accomplished" was really to the point of boosting soldier moral. At lets be honest here. After all the hard work and dedication by these men and women, they deserve kudos.
As for the death of our soldiers, that is nothing when you look at the larger picture. In fact, the amount of deaths you mentioned is proof of a job well done. I'm sorry, but you've lost total perpective when it comes to the history of warfare (read about World War 2). Fact is, freedom has its price and it always will simply because of the human modus operandi. If you can change humanity at the genetic level, then we can talk about preventing war. Untill the, an orginized military will always be required in a civilized country.
As for your statements about losing this war, your wrong. We have made so much progress it's extraordinary!.
We haven't heard from Bin Laden. Chances are, he's dead. Not because we killed him, but because putting him on the run kept him from acquiring the medical attention he needs such as access to a dialysis machine. If in fact if he is dead, don't expect to hear an offical word about it from Al-Qaeda.
The support from Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, and Iraq has yeiled success. The amount of interception of communications from these cells have proven their moral is next to non-existance. While terrorist cell orginizations have a strategic advantage of being autonomous, they also lack independent leadership. What we are doing is exploiting this lack of leadership by going after the main figure-heads. To this date, Al-Qaeda is still alive but severly fracture and disorganized.
While we are still far from winning this war, I can say with absolute assurance that we (the civilized world) are making progress. Because of the fostering of democrocies now in the middle east, it will evaporate potential breeding grounds for extreme and inhumane activies.
I know that harddrive manufacturs offer a free utility that will write 0's on the entire drive. But what I want is to see in additional option to have it write all 1's, then start over with 0's and back again. I would assume that flipping the bits back and forth a few times would flip the fields completely accross all platters making data recovery impossible...or so I would think.
Just wait till Apple develops the "Nanite". With this little bugger, you simply swallow a pill that contains the Nanite. Eventually in less then an hour, it will attach itself to your brain.
To use: simply think of the commands and the music will start playing in your head. Should there be a malfuction in the "stop" command, please use the enclosed gun pre-loaded with one bullet.
Note: Don't miss. You do not want to miss. For further instructions please call us at our toll free 1-800 number.
But you know something, it might just work. The idea is to get your message out loud and clear in times when the market is quite. Thus, everyone takes notice at you.
Personally, I find the "bold ad campaign" and oldie-but-goodie method.
Just one minor flaw that shatters your argument.
Islamic terrorists are attacking all around the globe in verious countries regardless of race/color. And yet durring these past 5 years, we have not had a single islamic terrorist attack on US soil. This could because of
1. Islamic radicals and their terrorist orginizations are to stupid to pull off another attack in the US.
or
2. The Bush administration is actually doing something correct with homeland security to stop and/or prevent such attacks.
So what if islam converts people?
1.) Because it's barbaric in human rights (mainly agains women).
2.) It's anti-democratic and pro-theocratic. According to the teachings in the Koran, Democrocy is a form of "hubris" and thus demeans servitude to Alah. Keep in mind, the english translation of Islam means "To submit one's self (to god)" or "Submission"
So to answer your question, why should I be the pacifist fool and give up my personal freedoms to some myth you call a god?
Why not? Because you don't want to?
...but Al Quaeda, no. Not unless you submit to the Korean and it's teaching. There is no middle compromise. Don't even try and argue this fact.
Correct.
Because we do not wish to embrace the radical teachings of the Koran and disregard democrocy. According to these wack-jobs, democrocy is a form of hubris that steps beyond the laws written in the Koran. As such, democrocy is goes against Alah. Theocratic rule is the ONLY form of acceptable government.
Note: Islam is translated roughly as "Submission" or "To surrender one's self (to God)"
If you get the rest of the Islamic world on your side, they'll be trivially easy to defeat.
That is VERY hard to do. Even among peaceful muslims, there is this duty and form of honor to never turn against another muslim regardless of thier evil deads. It's like turning against a brother or syster. All muslims see eachother as a family unit. Even though they see Al Quaeda as radical, they will never turn against them as it would be a great dishonor in their own culture. The best you can hope for is they will just turn a blind eye and not associate themselves with this group. That said however, they will also not prevent us for dealing with their miss guided breathren. In a nut shell, don't expect any help from the Islamic community to solve our problems.
What? The UK has been living with terrorism for years (strangely enough, mainly funded out of the US). We know what it is, we know how to continue living our lives without running around like scared kids with machine guns.
Ya, but unlike the political feuds from the IRA, these Islamic terrorist are blowing *themselves* up. How do you rationalise with a terror group that doesn't even value his or her own life? Speaking of the IRA, after the attacks of 911, they more or less layed low. They know it was best not to be associated with their level of radicalism. At least there was always a hope of making peace with the IRA through political means.
The problem is, GWB has no interest in "other methods", which makes me think that he is more interested in the fighting than in the resolving.
:)
Wha there. Look, I'm not huge fan of Bush (though I did vote for him), but what "other methods" is he over looking? What would you have done different?
Fact is, we cannot make peace with these Islamic radicals. Either they drop their weapons and live a peacefull life, or we hunt them down in their neighborhood. I don't wish for war by any means, but when push comes to shove, you cant just take the hit in hopes they will never bother you again. It would seem the UK is just now starting to realise this at a personal level. And if I say so myself, they executed a response much more quickly and efficiently then our government in the US.
Funny I would say this, but the Pentagon should be taking notes from the UK. Talk about a job well done (except for that last part of gunning down an innocent brazilian..oops)
I'm curious. I wonder how many of the supernovae in this universe were artificial? Why take out a planet when you can oblitorate an entire solar system...and then some.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News /2004/05/28/476115.html
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and
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/10/
To what non-democratic country?
Sorry, but your question is based on a false premise.
Suitecase nuclear bombs are not practicle.
WRONG....wrong wrong wrong wrong W.R.O.N.G!
Are you going to tell me that open US boarders along Mexico and their government wont keep track what goes inside the boarders of THEIR country. Once a suitcase nuke gets transported on an 18 wheeler and passed the boarder to inside the US, we are totally, royally, and utterly FUCKED.
Fact is, an Islamic wackjob WILL detonate this as a nuclear carbomb all in the name of Alah and the profit Mohamid. For the love off all that is logic an pure in this world, open your eyes! We are not fighting "terrorism" we are fighting a holy war waged against western civilization. So lets drop the political correctness bullshit and call it what it is. It's a HOLY WAR, pure and simple!
When "Death to America, death to Ireal" is chanted at the end of Irans parliamentry sessions much in the same fasion you might say "Amen" in church...do you really thing we should not take them seriously?
the idea of "preemptive nuclear strike" is not just radical, it's insane
But you know what the real sad thing of it is? It's Necessary as history has shown it to be.
Do you really think freedom-loving-minding-our-own-personal-business "want" to be launching nukes? Hell no! In fact, no one does....except the brain washed commies and religious zelots.
Due to the hard-lined quotes from N. Korea about also being reserved the right to "First strike", and the obstinate Iran, this really should come to no surprise. What the announcement does is officially flex our muscle to the rest of the world along these lines of "Do NOT even fuck with us".
So to Iran and N. Korea, you better not be playing games. Nuclear proliferation will never be tolerated. If you sell those bombs on the black market, expect your nuclear reprocessing plants to be obliterated. And if you're lucky, we will spare your regime too.
Well the DOD does have does have some super computer cluster from IBM last I heard on slashdot. The sole purpose is to run virtual nuclear detonations to ensure the trigers used in our old stockpile will still work correctly.
I suppose with these simulations, you could take the supercomputer models of the weather and combine them with this. I would be interesting to see an effect if any at all.
Though honestly, I would imagine at best it might knock a hurricane down a "catagory" for a moment (a day maybe?) and then it will go back up to it's original strength.
Even worse, the battery WILL fail at some point. Yet regardless, the damn battery cable is soldered on the PCB.
WTF Apple!? Are we now required to have one of those Cold Heat portable soldering tool now for Do-it-yourselfers?
Arrrr...more resources for me to plunder!!
Guantanamo Bay.
That is all
I totally agree. I mean, when these terrorists (not solders of a sovereign nation) are treated at "Club Gitmo" better then our own prisoners in the US...something is very very wrong.
You know, SOME of those being held in "Club Gitmo" get no less then two bullets in the head.
The quickest way to turn people off about your theories is to act all hubris. While it's one thing to be confident, it's quite another to act like "my shit doesn't stink"
Maybe Wolfram should take some of his own advice about intuition in regards to how to present information to the public.
No, I'm not speaking of creationism as put forth by the Bible. I speaking of evolution, but the external enviromental events that shaped the outcome of evolution was tied to an omni-present force whome I call "God". What some call chaos in the universe, I call order beyond comprehension.
1) faith should never be blind.
2) if you would not put your faith to the test, what good is it?
Why not? You don't worry about being hit hit by a car, or being shot at when you walk out the front door of your house do you? If you don't, then you have faith in your own future as one with a good out look.
Why my faith is purely blind, stupid, ignorant, and/or unintelligent; I still hold onto such ideals as my only salvation into the afterlife. Because science cannot answer questions such as the "soul, God, afterlife..etc", I feel compelled to have faith in these things.
Let me ask you something. Have you ever wondered what or who you were before you were born? Ever wonder what will happen to your consciousness? While science may paint a bleak picture of something to the effect of "you live you die and that's it", do you really feel a sense of closure and fullfillness?
Maybe he did a search for google and it returned "Ask Slashdot" for the answer. Hence, he is asking the question here.
:-p
How do you like that answer Mr. Fancy Pants!
To bad this topic is taboo because it'd be pretty interesting to study.
Here is my personal study based on observations in America. Birth statistics will very greatly depending on country and culture however.
African Americans = Violent and very athletic. They tend to have large families
Caucasians = Smarter then African Americans, but lack their superior athletic body. Caucasians however are very adaptable to differences in climatic change. They tend to have the moderate size families.
Asians = Highly Intelligent and cunning compaired to Caucasians and African American. They have the least athletic bodies. They tend to have the smallest size families.
Whether or not there is scientific data to back up my personal observations, I don't see one "race" having any advantage over the other. What I do notice however, is that nature loves to play around with different survival strategies with all life on Earth. As such, we not look at the Human species as an exception to this rule.
And unfortunately, in this country, there is a strong selective pressure against intelligence.
I got news for you. It takes quite a bit of collective intelligence to foster and maintain productivity based on our system of capitalism. Also might I add, that the higher your college degree alumni prestige is, the greater your chance for a better paying wage.
This is just my 2 cents, so have at it what you will...
I personally, DO believe in "Intelligent Design" but only based on faith and not science. I would never try and put fourth blind faith in the relm of science. Even if I would (or could), it wouldn't go any farther then a hypothesis at best.