Since the first recorded US Predator strike inside Pakistan in June 2004, the US has killed a total of 22 High Value Targets (HVTs), which include some of the high- and mid-level Taliban and al Qaeda leadership in the tribal agencies. [see HVT list below]
Some of the most important al Qaeda and Taliban leaders killed by US airstrikes include: Abu Jihad al Masri, the chief of al Qaeda's intelligence council; Abu Sulayman Jazairi, the chief of al Qaeda's external operations branch; Khalid Habib, the commander of al Qaeda's paramilitary Shadow Army; Osama al Kini, the head of al Qaeda's operations in Pakistan; Abu Laith al Libi, the commander of Brigade 055; Abu Khabab al Masri, the chief of al Qaeda's WMD program; Abu Hamza Rabai, al Qaeda's operations chief in Pakistan; and Nek Mohammed, the leader of the Taliban in South Waziristan.
No sane person (apart from american politicians) decides that cold-blooded mass murder... is the best way to accomplish their goals. FTFY
Or just about any conquering army throughout history. Genociding the enemy means there's more room for your populace to expand and no children of former rulers to seek revenge upon you.
Why would anyone with half a brain do this? A model plane with a bit of C4 wouldn't do much to the exterior.
So you do something *besides* flying into the roof. Like, for instance, fly it into the the main entrance.
It would smash into the door and create a big C4+fuel fireball, killing or seriously wounding anyone in the vicinity and scaring the crap out of everyone else, while sending our Dear Leaders into a panic.
The defense attorney, Mother Jones and CAIR would love nothing more than to hear on tape how the FBI pushed and prodded him along. They'll trumpet any such actions. OTOH, they'll be tomb-quiet if he did what the FBI said he did.
Except that -- even though I love and use Linux -- you don't actually need a a multi-user operating system with a multi-threaded kernel, sophisticated networking stack, an over-the-network graphics system to do "desktop" workloads.
OS/2 Warp and Win2K were more than adequate, as was MS-DOS with DESQview.
Right, and the cost you pay is having to recompile and possibly rewrite every application that you want to use.
I guess you didn't know that Debian is a multi-CPU distro and that they aren't Gentoo?
As I pointed out, Intel thought that they could introduce a 64bit architecture that lacked support for 32bit applications and ended up being taken over AMD's lap for a spanking.
This is true only for the Windows world. (Which is admittedly 90% of the market...)
Is it just my contrariness, or does "Inspector General" sound remarkably similar to "Holy Inquisition"?
No, it doesn't. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_General#United_States In the United States, an Inspector General (IG) leads an organization charged with examining the actions of a government agency, military organization, or military contractor as a general auditor of their operations to ensure they are operating in compliance with generally established policies of the government, to audit the effectiveness of security procedures, or to discover the possibility of misconduct, waste, fraud, theft, or certain types of criminal activity by individuals or groups related to the agency's operation, usually involving some misuse of the organization's funds or credit. In the United States, there are numerous Offices of Inspector General (OIGs) at the federal, state, and local levels.
but does it need to be ( institutionalised ) religion ?
Yes, for the same reason that every country has a dominant religion, and because most people willingly follow leaders who provide (most of) their basic needs in an at least semi-competent fashion..
as there is no black and white distinction between enemy combatants and civilians, you can just kill whoever you want?
That is exactly the lesson that the US military has learned. Why, I'll bet they (US Army and Marines) shoot every civilian on sight every time they go out on patrol. Eventually the countries will be totally depopulated. Wioo hoo!!
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http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/07/us_predator_strikes_3.php
Since the first recorded US Predator strike inside Pakistan in June 2004, the US has killed a total of 22 High Value Targets (HVTs), which include some of the high- and mid-level Taliban and al Qaeda leadership in the tribal agencies. [see HVT list below]
Some of the most important al Qaeda and Taliban leaders killed by US airstrikes include: Abu Jihad al Masri, the chief of al Qaeda's intelligence council; Abu Sulayman Jazairi, the chief of al Qaeda's external operations branch; Khalid Habib, the commander of al Qaeda's paramilitary Shadow Army; Osama al Kini, the head of al Qaeda's operations in Pakistan; Abu Laith al Libi, the commander of Brigade 055; Abu Khabab al Masri, the chief of al Qaeda's WMD program; Abu Hamza Rabai, al Qaeda's operations chief in Pakistan; and Nek Mohammed, the leader of the Taliban in South Waziristan.
Any tapes that the Feds want to use during trial must be provided during the discovery phase.
The full sized airplane had trouble breaking windows.
Even an idiot Republican like me knows that you aim small weapons not at strength but at weak points.
You smarter-than-everyone-else Leftists and Libertarians can't figure that out????
Just don't mention that the christian crusaders literally ate babies.
A few instances of starvation-induced cannibalism would never ever be exaggerated far out of proportion by the other side, would it?
Nah, didn't think so...
No sane person (apart from american politicians) decides that cold-blooded mass murder ... is the best way to accomplish their goals. FTFY
Or just about any conquering army throughout history. Genociding the enemy means there's more room for your populace to expand and no children of former rulers to seek revenge upon you.
There are a lot of people with guns in the Pentagon.
Only after they figured out what was happening.
They would shoot back.
The attackers would probably expect to die. 72 virgins and all that rot.
some disgruntled sad sack or sad sacks
Because happy, materially successful people have no reason to destroy the society in which they are happy and materially successful?
I'll hold my applause until they catch someone smarter than I am.
The smarter people aren't actually *caught*. Think commandos and Hellfire-armed UCAVs.
Why would anyone with half a brain do this? A model plane with a bit of C4 wouldn't do much to the exterior.
So you do something *besides* flying into the roof. Like, for instance, fly it into the the main entrance.
It would smash into the door and create a big C4+fuel fireball, killing or seriously wounding anyone in the vicinity and scaring the crap out of everyone else, while sending our Dear Leaders into a panic.
How the hell does an RC aircraft "filled" with C4 even get off the ground
You idiot. The same way that a B-52 "filled" with bombs get off the ground: less plane + fuel + payload than total wing load + thrust.
how do you avoid having it stall
The same way every other plane avoids stalling.
blow you up instead of your target.
Carefully, you jackass,
Besides, I don't think you appreciate how big of a boom a couple pounds of C4 cause. The 'high' in 'high explosive' isn't a marketing term.
And the unburned jet fuel spewing into (presumably) the front door.
Major panic.
A massive informant network (rakers)
That works really well when the FBI looks like and speaks the same language as the enemy. Think Mafia or IRA.
OTOH, are there thousands of Arabs living in the US and eagerly informing to the FBI? That would be big news!
an undercover operative is sent in
Are there that many Arab-descended agents in the FBI? That would also be huge news.
I'm not one to blindly believe the FBI.
The defense attorney, Mother Jones and CAIR would love nothing more than to hear on tape how the FBI pushed and prodded him along. They'll trumpet any such actions. OTOH, they'll be tomb-quiet if he did what the FBI said he did.
Either which way, we'll find out soon enough.
F-35s, green berets and stealth bombers are theater too
Eh?
Except that -- even though I love and use Linux -- you don't actually need a a multi-user operating system with a multi-threaded kernel, sophisticated networking stack, an over-the-network graphics system to do "desktop" workloads.
OS/2 Warp and Win2K were more than adequate, as was MS-DOS with DESQview.
You need it for big databases that require massive amounts of I/O and memory bandwidth.
POWER.
Was that Pentium 133 running a proper operating system or a glorified program-loader with lipstick on (e.g. DOS/Win 3.11 or Win95)?
As long as the work gets accomplished effectively, does it matter what the OS is?
But MSFT has already (for good and obvious technical reasons) said, they won't implement CPU emulation to allow existing software to execute.
Right, and the cost you pay is having to recompile and possibly rewrite every application that you want to use.
I guess you didn't know that Debian is a multi-CPU distro and that they aren't Gentoo?
As I pointed out, Intel thought that they could introduce a 64bit architecture that lacked support for 32bit applications and ended up being taken over AMD's lap for a spanking.
This is true only for the Windows world. (Which is admittedly 90% of the market...)
Or a Lenovo propped up on it's docking station and connected to an external kb and LCD.
Except that Congress has exempted itself from IG oversight.
Is it just my contrariness, or does "Inspector General" sound remarkably similar to "Holy Inquisition"?
No, it doesn't. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_General#United_States
In the United States, an Inspector General (IG) leads an organization charged with examining the actions of a government agency, military organization, or military contractor as a general auditor of their operations to ensure they are operating in compliance with generally established policies of the government, to audit the effectiveness of security procedures, or to discover the possibility of misconduct, waste, fraud, theft, or certain types of criminal activity by individuals or groups related to the agency's operation, usually involving some misuse of the organization's funds or credit. In the United States, there are numerous Offices of Inspector General (OIGs) at the federal, state, and local levels.
but does it need to be ( institutionalised ) religion ?
Yes, for the same reason that every country has a dominant religion, and because most people willingly follow leaders who provide (most of) their basic needs in an at least semi-competent fashion..
Where I live, religious views are only a hindrance to progress
Two points:
as there is no black and white distinction between enemy combatants and civilians, you can just kill whoever you want?
That is exactly the lesson that the US military has learned. Why, I'll bet they (US Army and Marines) shoot every civilian on sight every time they go out on patrol. Eventually the countries will be totally depopulated. Wioo hoo!!
You ignorant jackass.
but if he's in Afghanistan, they'll say he's a terrorist
I noticed that myself...