This isn't really accurate, as an act of violence isn't a war, it's a crime (but you may be confused from all the "war on a word" ideas that have been floating around for the last couple decades). However, by this logic you could say that Pakistan and Saudi Arabia -- and all countries that harboured bin Laden, and possibly the 9/11 hijackers -- were also complicit.
You argue like Clinton used to, parsing
language and billowing fog until the main point
is forgotten. Happily GDub is more direct.
The U.S. refused to
present any evidence, or to accept extradition
to a neutral third country for execution of justice.
LOL. Yes, how about a Hague trial?
..and creating conditions that have lead to the genocide of the Palestinians
It always comes back to this no matter how
tenuous the connection. The plight of the Palestinian Arabs pales in
comparison to the genocide of the Jews that preceded
it. The Palestinians would have a state and secure
borders if it weren't for the gangster Arafat and the
dilusion that Israel can be dissolved.
For whatever reason the Arab world prefers to let
the sore that is the West Bank fester.
You can't murder 500,000 people without God intervening to extract justice.
Indeed. May God give us strength to destroy
radical Islam.
The attitude of the US is sickening, with utter disregard to sovereignity of other nations
I assume you are refering to the sovereignty of
Afghanistan and Iraq. By harboring UBL after
9/11 the Taliban was complicit in an act of war.
Perhaps you think the U.S. should have entered
into peace talks with Mullah Omar? As for Iraq, Saddam's
regime murdered 400,000+ of his fellow citizens, violated the sovereignty of neighbors
Iran and Kuwait, renegged on a surrender agreement,
defied UN resolutions for 12 years, and
bought off security counsel members though
the "oil for food" racket. I think
the U.S. has shown remarkable restraint.
Any president who reads the bible for help making presidential decisions cannot be pro-science
+5 Insightful??? Are you saying science is a substitute for religion, or those who practice
religion should be dismissed as scientists? President Bush's actions in
expanding the funding of NSF, NASA and many other
agencies suggest that he is pro-science. Would you have said
the same thing about Jimmy Carter who was also
devoutly Christian? How about Albert Einstein
who was a practicing Jew, or Donald Knuth who
is a devout Lutheran.
Stop spending $100s of billions on counterproductive wars, farm subsidies, ineffective weapons systems, etc.
Have you ever considered the continuing costs
of the rogue Iraqi regime on world markets?
Over the 12 years that the regime was allowed to fester
the cumulative cost of the fear premium in
world far higher than $200G. As for ineffective weapons, a terrorist cannot even organize a meeting in his hut with his cell
phone anymore for fear of being hit with a 2000lb precision bomb!
I agree with you that farm
subsidies are a crime. I believe you would
see them disappear if the Iowa caucuses were
moved back on the calendar and the state and its agriculture lobby played less
of a role in electing the president.
Don't you think, in the interest of fairness and justice, that Osama should be tried by an international court instead?
Are you refering to the international
court at the Hague. Whose law prevails in such a court? If it is not the law under which the
people he has victimized live, then he will
not receive justice. You will not see the U.S.
embrace an international court system anytime
soon.
Trying him in the US would be like letting the victim of an alleged crime be the judge of the accused.
Hardly. In the U.S. the accused are granted
a fair jury trial, a high profile figure even more so, sadly. Consider that Terry Nichols, the
Oklahoma City bombing conspiritor received life
in prison from a jury in a state where the
majority of the population was rabid for his execution.
Very cool post!. But you do not mention the
vehicle and (secret) missions of greatest interest:
those launched by the Titan IVA-B. They are
launched out of Vandenberg at the rate of 1 or 2 a year. They typically launch huge spacecraft into
polar orbits. With the big solid boosters and
the ability of the core stage to yaw radically
it must put on quite a show.
Pragmatism
on
Port-A-Nuke
·
· Score: 4, Insightful
Why, pray tell, should the United States and the current nuclear club be the only countries to develop nuclear power?
How about because most of the nations outside of
the club have signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty. The US through the UN is only trying to hold them to what
they have agreed too. If a country wants to
withdraw from the treaty, they can. Look at North
Korea. But they also become a pariah nation,
and are subject to attack by nations whose security is threatened. Iran is headed down
the same road. It is not fair or
egalitarian for the countries without nukes.
But it is stable.
However, even as a layman I can point to the weather as the single greatest reason the US Space Program needs to relocate.
Wrong. The most important factors are access to useful orbits and downrange safty. Cape Canaveral
is well situated for geosynchronous launches because
of its low latitude. Orbit plane changes take a
lot of energy. It is also well situated for
servicing high inclination orbits, like the one used
by the space station, and Molniya orbits used by
some intelligence satellites. The only thing
you can't do well from the Cape is launch to polar or sun synchronous orbits. That is why we have Vandenberg in California. Together these launch
sites provide superb access to space and unmatched
range safety. The American south west is a lousy
choice because so many people live along the ascent path.
I use dialup not because broadband isn't available, but because of the limited ways
to get it. I
recoil at the idea of writing Time Warner a
monthly check
for US$80+ for basic cable and internet.
The lax FCC rules for media and telecom ownership
have, in 20 years since the breakup of AT&T,
transformed the industry into a sleezy oligopoly
of no choices and high prices. Some broadband future! Screw'em. I'll stick to
my PPP and modem!
But one positive by-effect would be that NASA would be forced to consider better booster solutions.
One of those better booster solutions is sitting
on the pad right now. It is even more vulnerable to damage
than the shuttle orbiters. The Delta IV heavy
or derivative is a likely candidate for a post
shuttle manned booster. It would be bad news
if it were damaged.
In 2002-2003 the market in the U.S. was non-existant. Some cities were hit especially
hard (Silicon Valley, Dallas, Boston). Some
not as bad. The market continues to recover
but reinflation to 2000 levels may take a few
more years. Recession is definitely a risk
in 3-5 years, especially if there is another
big terror attack. Saving money is always good
advice, even in boom times.
I totally agree. They would be just as well
to adapt 'find' to a little doc app. Call
it kfind. The hype
surrounding Google is making the KDE folks do
some silly things. Can't say I care what direction
they go though. I use WindowMaker.
There will never be flying cars simply because there is
a much greater social revulsion to fatal airplane
crashes than to car crashes. To keep planes from routinely falling out of the sky, aviation is massively regulated. Compare the regulation of general aviation to automobiles. It is 100x more difficult to get and maintain a pilots licence, than an auto licence. They are actually selective! It is very difficult to be innovative in general aviation because all
airplane components are so difficult to qualify
through the FAA. Ever wonder why a nice single
engine plane like a Cirrus, the material equivalent of say a Lexus,
costs 10x as much? It is ruinously difficult to put new innovative equipment on an airplane.
The same rules apply to the Buck Rogers silliness the original posting prattles on about.
It amazes me to no end how many people talk about "Linux apps" and Linux. We have the BSDs (which aren't encumbered by the GPL), we have other OSs like Syllable, NewOS, OpenBeOS, ReactOS. But it's always GNU/Linux that gets all the hype and press notes.
Yes, the should be refering to them as GNU/Linux apps or better GNU apps.*
As for BSD's, it is unfortunate for them that
they are not freed by GPL. Otherwise they would
be more popular.
I assume you are refering to RMS, Chief
GNUsance. Part of his zealotry has been to get copyright releases for code from all GNU contributors. As a result GNU packages have
no where near the same legal vulnerablities as the Linux kernel because contributions are traced.
RMS anticipated that legal dirty tricks would
be used against him and he uses the law to his
advantage (as does the GPL). Perhaps Linus should become more zealous in this respect.
...remember how, in front of the UN in the run-up to the Iraq war, a couple of trucks in the middle of the desert were "mobile bio weapon research/development platforms"? (Exactly those that, like all the weapons of mass distruction, can't be found now)...
Your post does not deserve to be modded up.
You are simply a Bush hater who will take
any chance to denegrate the great man.
Like other demos you should stop foaming
at the mouth and just vote against Mr. Bush
on election day, if you are so inclined.
I remember the army finding finding two stripped
trucks carrying large fermenters and control equipment. Nerve gas shells have been found as part of road side bombs. There is every reason
to believe there are more out there in the
hands of terrorists.
What are the envirnmental effects of this? Have they been considered?
A warmer lake will lead to more lake effect snows
in Buffalo and Cleveland. These cities will have
to absorb the cost in snow removal. Also, is disturbing the lakes natural thermocline good for
fish and wildlife? Walleyes need cold water.
Who says lake Ontario's heat is Canada's to use?
Half of it belongs to the U.S.
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This isn't really accurate, as an act of violence isn't a war, it's a crime (but you may be confused from all the "war on a word" ideas that have been floating around for the last couple decades). However, by this logic you could say that Pakistan and Saudi Arabia -- and all countries that harboured bin Laden, and possibly the 9/11 hijackers -- were also complicit.
You argue like Clinton used to, parsing language and billowing fog until the main point is forgotten. Happily GDub is more direct.
The U.S. refused to present any evidence, or to accept extradition to a neutral third country for execution of justice.
LOL. Yes, how about a Hague trial?
It always comes back to this no matter how tenuous the connection. The plight of the Palestinian Arabs pales in comparison to the genocide of the Jews that preceded it. The Palestinians would have a state and secure borders if it weren't for the gangster Arafat and the dilusion that Israel can be dissolved. For whatever reason the Arab world prefers to let the sore that is the West Bank fester.
You can't murder 500,000 people without God intervening to extract justice.
Indeed. May God give us strength to destroy radical Islam.
The attitude of the US is sickening, with utter disregard to sovereignity of other nations
I assume you are refering to the sovereignty of Afghanistan and Iraq. By harboring UBL after 9/11 the Taliban was complicit in an act of war. Perhaps you think the U.S. should have entered into peace talks with Mullah Omar? As for Iraq, Saddam's regime murdered 400,000+ of his fellow citizens, violated the sovereignty of neighbors Iran and Kuwait, renegged on a surrender agreement, defied UN resolutions for 12 years, and bought off security counsel members though the "oil for food" racket. I think the U.S. has shown remarkable restraint.
I used to use a 2 part password with an RSA Secure ID to login to a Cray Y-MP back in 1990. Quite a novelty this.
Damn cool.
This second sentence is pretty short.
"French" is code for "faggy.
We Republicans prefer the term "girly man".
Although maybe we shouldn't publicise this, it might provoke a nationalistic wave of support for you know who...
It already has. One of the most effective slurs against Kerry has been "he looks French."
There was no 'rogue regime' in Iraq until just recently.
The 400,000 bodies exhumed suggest otherwise.
No indeed. His answers were forged by Dan Rather!
Any president who reads the bible for help making presidential decisions cannot be pro-science
+5 Insightful??? Are you saying science is a substitute for religion, or those who practice religion should be dismissed as scientists? President Bush's actions in expanding the funding of NSF, NASA and many other agencies suggest that he is pro-science. Would you have said the same thing about Jimmy Carter who was also devoutly Christian? How about Albert Einstein who was a practicing Jew, or Donald Knuth who is a devout Lutheran.
Stop spending $100s of billions on counterproductive wars, farm subsidies, ineffective weapons systems, etc.
Have you ever considered the continuing costs of the rogue Iraqi regime on world markets? Over the 12 years that the regime was allowed to fester the cumulative cost of the fear premium in world far higher than $200G. As for ineffective weapons, a terrorist cannot even organize a meeting in his hut with his cell phone anymore for fear of being hit with a 2000lb precision bomb!
I agree with you that farm subsidies are a crime. I believe you would see them disappear if the Iowa caucuses were moved back on the calendar and the state and its agriculture lobby played less of a role in electing the president.
'nough said
Don't you think, in the interest of fairness and justice, that Osama should be tried by an international court instead?
Are you refering to the international court at the Hague. Whose law prevails in such a court? If it is not the law under which the people he has victimized live, then he will not receive justice. You will not see the U.S. embrace an international court system anytime soon.
Trying him in the US would be like letting the victim of an alleged crime be the judge of the accused.
Hardly. In the U.S. the accused are granted a fair jury trial, a high profile figure even more so, sadly. Consider that Terry Nichols, the Oklahoma City bombing conspiritor received life in prison from a jury in a state where the majority of the population was rabid for his execution.
Very cool post!. But you do not mention the vehicle and (secret) missions of greatest interest: those launched by the Titan IVA-B. They are launched out of Vandenberg at the rate of 1 or 2 a year. They typically launch huge spacecraft into polar orbits. With the big solid boosters and the ability of the core stage to yaw radically it must put on quite a show.
Why, pray tell, should the United States and the current nuclear club be the only countries to develop nuclear power?
How about because most of the nations outside of the club have signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The US through the UN is only trying to hold them to what they have agreed too. If a country wants to withdraw from the treaty, they can. Look at North Korea. But they also become a pariah nation, and are subject to attack by nations whose security is threatened. Iran is headed down the same road. It is not fair or egalitarian for the countries without nukes. But it is stable.
However, even as a layman I can point to the weather as the single greatest reason the US Space Program needs to relocate.
Wrong. The most important factors are access to useful orbits and downrange safty. Cape Canaveral is well situated for geosynchronous launches because of its low latitude. Orbit plane changes take a lot of energy. It is also well situated for servicing high inclination orbits, like the one used by the space station, and Molniya orbits used by some intelligence satellites. The only thing you can't do well from the Cape is launch to polar or sun synchronous orbits. That is why we have Vandenberg in California. Together these launch sites provide superb access to space and unmatched range safety. The American south west is a lousy choice because so many people live along the ascent path.
I use dialup not because broadband isn't available, but because of the limited ways to get it. I recoil at the idea of writing Time Warner a monthly check for US$80+ for basic cable and internet. The lax FCC rules for media and telecom ownership have, in 20 years since the breakup of AT&T, transformed the industry into a sleezy oligopoly of no choices and high prices. Some broadband future! Screw'em. I'll stick to my PPP and modem!
But one positive by-effect would be that NASA would be forced to consider better booster solutions.
One of those better booster solutions is sitting on the pad right now. It is even more vulnerable to damage than the shuttle orbiters. The Delta IV heavy or derivative is a likely candidate for a post shuttle manned booster. It would be bad news if it were damaged.
In 2002-2003 the market in the U.S. was non-existant. Some cities were hit especially hard (Silicon Valley, Dallas, Boston). Some not as bad. The market continues to recover but reinflation to 2000 levels may take a few more years. Recession is definitely a risk in 3-5 years, especially if there is another big terror attack. Saving money is always good advice, even in boom times.
I totally agree. They would be just as well to adapt 'find' to a little doc app. Call it kfind. The hype surrounding Google is making the KDE folks do some silly things. Can't say I care what direction they go though. I use WindowMaker.
There will never be flying cars simply because there is a much greater social revulsion to fatal airplane crashes than to car crashes. To keep planes from routinely falling out of the sky, aviation is massively regulated. Compare the regulation of general aviation to automobiles. It is 100x more difficult to get and maintain a pilots licence, than an auto licence. They are actually selective! It is very difficult to be innovative in general aviation because all airplane components are so difficult to qualify through the FAA. Ever wonder why a nice single engine plane like a Cirrus, the material equivalent of say a Lexus, costs 10x as much? It is ruinously difficult to put new innovative equipment on an airplane. The same rules apply to the Buck Rogers silliness the original posting prattles on about.
It amazes me to no end how many people talk about "Linux apps" and Linux. We have the BSDs (which aren't encumbered by the GPL), we have other OSs like Syllable, NewOS, OpenBeOS, ReactOS. But it's always GNU/Linux that gets all the hype and press notes.
Yes, the should be refering to them as GNU/Linux apps or better GNU apps.*
As for BSD's, it is unfortunate for them that they are not freed by GPL. Otherwise they would be more popular.
*The GNU system often runs the Linux kernel.
He wisely left that nonsense to the zealots.
I assume you are refering to RMS, Chief GNUsance. Part of his zealotry has been to get copyright releases for code from all GNU contributors. As a result GNU packages have no where near the same legal vulnerablities as the Linux kernel because contributions are traced. RMS anticipated that legal dirty tricks would be used against him and he uses the law to his advantage (as does the GPL). Perhaps Linus should become more zealous in this respect.
Your post does not deserve to be modded up. You are simply a Bush hater who will take any chance to denegrate the great man. Like other demos you should stop foaming at the mouth and just vote against Mr. Bush on election day, if you are so inclined. I remember the army finding finding two stripped trucks carrying large fermenters and control equipment. Nerve gas shells have been found as part of road side bombs. There is every reason to believe there are more out there in the hands of terrorists.
What are the envirnmental effects of this? Have they been considered?
A warmer lake will lead to more lake effect snows in Buffalo and Cleveland. These cities will have to absorb the cost in snow removal. Also, is disturbing the lakes natural thermocline good for fish and wildlife? Walleyes need cold water. Who says lake Ontario's heat is Canada's to use? Half of it belongs to the U.S.