It's two separate sentences so perhaps the above poster was not connecting the two things. What can be confirmed is that we paid Khomeini a lot at the start of the Reagan Presidency and that he did execute every communist he could find in Iran. However quite a few were executed before he was paid and relations with the USSR hit rock bottom. It's probably making the best of a bad situation.
Personally I think that, Detroit and a great big pile of other problems is due to the city not having anywhere near the resources to get their shit together due to the limited money they can get out of a limited number of people that reside in their area. It's a 19th century model that does not take into account people living in suburbs and working in the city - requiring services that their taxes are not being directed towards. There's so many things being done at the city level when it should be done at the state level. Nice well policed suburbs don't really help when the crime comes to visit from ten blocks away. It's only a "local culture" problem because of a very outdated "every man for himself" approach to local governments that have to take on problems far better dealt with at the state level. Personally I don't even think a city as large as San Francisco should have a police department - a mayor should not be able to apply pressure to get the cops involved in a simple workplace dispute - they should be treated like anyone else short of the governor reporting a crime and should not hold the jobs of the police involved in their hands. A state sized force is less exposed to manipulation.
President Merkin Muffley: But this is absolute madness, Ambassador! Why should you *build* such a thing?
Ambassador de Sadesky: There were those of us who fought against it, but in the end we could not keep up with the expense involved in the arms race, the space race, and the peace race. At the same time our people grumbled for more nylons and washing machines. Our doomsday scheme cost us just a small fraction of what we had been spending on defense in a single year. The deciding factor was when we learned that your country was working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a doomsday gap.
President Merkin Muffley: This is preposterous. I've never approved of anything like that.
Ambassador de Sadesky: Our source was the New York Times.
The upper levels of bunches of spooks are political appointees instead of people with operations or real military experience. That results in a disconnection so that properly gathered intelligence is not considered intelligently due to decision makers not being chosen due to ability. The end results make "Get Smart" look like competent superspies in comparison.
If you don't think ISIS is a construct of US meddling with the middle-east
Consequence not construct. The roots were in Saudi Arabia with the rich sending money for "the struggle" and Turkey wanting something to counter the Kurds. Add in a large group of people locked out of the US funded government in Iraq and all it took was a match to blow up. So fuckup and not paying attention to actions of backstabbing allies instead of a deliberate construction. Yet another spectacular failure of spooks playing at being toy soldiers. The thing that boogles me the most is ISIL/ISIS/Daash were and most likely still are exporting large amounts of oil despite having skies full of opposing fighters and bombers.
The Manning leak that showed she wanted the credit card numbers of diplomats of allied nations so that they could be used for blackmail (yes something that stupid was in writing and available at Manning's clearance level) should have finished her. She probably kicked off the Swedish Assange stupidity as revenge. Then again, there's that other guy on the Republican side that should have been finished in politics forever when the tollbooth idiocy came to light, and there's Trump who has been "captured" four times in business but has no time for a soldier who was captured.
The current flock make Carter and Nixon look like paragons of competence and virtue.
How about we do it more directly and stop buy oil from those Saudis that are funding ISIS/Daash and those oil companies that are buying oil from ISIS/Daash. Blocking a few web pages isn't going to do anywhere near as much in comparison. They need funds more than they need recruits.
This thread is about a limit to freedom of speech FFS. What is it with you people? You stood up for blocking speech with your first post and now you are saying that I'm attempting to limit your speech? Is that a good thing or is it not? You are having it both ways at your convenience.
Stuff is being built but imports to run them are down - here's a bit about expected excess capacity. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11... It's worth noting that there is a wait of years just to get a turbine rotor so even with sensible planning stuff can come on line a few years after it's clear it's not needed. In this situation it doesn't look like sensible planning.
Wth a quick search I couldn't find anything global (thanks to it being a popular company name) but due US coal being heavily exported the graph does tell the story. As for US only, I'm In Australia. In the coal and oil exploration industry (I normally don't mention it because it makes nuke fanboys angry). We do work in Mongolia, Mozambique, Russia, Indonesia etc but there's a lot less going on now as seen by the global coal price dropping due to less demand (which differs from the oil situation where the price drop is from a deliberate glut from the Saudis etc to attempt to drive the shale oil producers in the US out of business).
You wish me to give you a free pass for denial of an obvious ongoing effort to influence and suppress media reports critical of a the actions the political party currently running Israel? Yes or no?
OK you are pretending not to understand again. If anyone else gets this far down the thread who is not pretending to be stupid the story is the ABC is well known for being impartial yet they are being accused of bias in this case because the reporter some years ago said that she admired the war correspondent Mr Fisk of the Guardian. How petty can a claim of bias get? This very tenous and petty claim of bias is AN EXAMPLE OF THE PROPAGANDA is it not? And that's just today.
Except there is an app for that:) There is an existing compatibility framework for android that can run on other things. Jolla and others have licenced it.
A fairly old example but a product that you are probably using. After Netscape's web browser got popular Microsoft decided they wanted one too.
They bought what became Internet Explorer from a company called Spyglass. As part of the deal they offered a fairly high percentage of sales royalties and Spyglass jumped at the deal despite it being not a great deal of money up front. Microsoft gave it away for free so the royalties were zero.
Don't. The big guys are happy with things just rolling along most of the time. It's the small guys that want a game changer so that they can get somewhere. After they have built it up to the point where it is selling the big guys may condescend to notice.
Maybe then as well but I'm describing the more recent incident. As for "conspiracy", are you joking or are you just using that as an excuse for not being aware of the topic? It has been very overt, very public and even PR people paid money to get messages out FFS!
One of the low points of the US nuclear industry was when they lobbied to get thorium research shut down during the Clinton administration. Nuclear fanboys should take note that the current players just want to collect the rent on 1970s technology and anything better than what they have endangers their cash flow - real progress is limited to military spinoffs. For anything better it's going to have to be government research opposing that lobby group or imported technology. India has been doing things with thorium but the promising efforts (eg. the accelerated thorium reactor that can also get a lot more out of used uranium fuel rods from other reactor) have been slowed down a bit due to India being offered a lot of the 1970s uranium technology from those same culprits in the US nuclear industry.
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Are you really so raised on Disney Pirates that you think that they would have had a moral problem with anyone they could get away with?
It's two separate sentences so perhaps the above poster was not connecting the two things.
What can be confirmed is that we paid Khomeini a lot at the start of the Reagan Presidency and that he did execute every communist he could find in Iran. However quite a few were executed before he was paid and relations with the USSR hit rock bottom. It's probably making the best of a bad situation.
Education cutbacks have whitewashed just about everything out of history.
Personally I think that, Detroit and a great big pile of other problems is due to the city not having anywhere near the resources to get their shit together due to the limited money they can get out of a limited number of people that reside in their area. It's a 19th century model that does not take into account people living in suburbs and working in the city - requiring services that their taxes are not being directed towards. There's so many things being done at the city level when it should be done at the state level. Nice well policed suburbs don't really help when the crime comes to visit from ten blocks away. It's only a "local culture" problem because of a very outdated "every man for himself" approach to local governments that have to take on problems far better dealt with at the state level.
Personally I don't even think a city as large as San Francisco should have a police department - a mayor should not be able to apply pressure to get the cops involved in a simple workplace dispute - they should be treated like anyone else short of the governor reporting a crime and should not hold the jobs of the police involved in their hands. A state sized force is less exposed to manipulation.
The upper levels of bunches of spooks are political appointees instead of people with operations or real military experience.
That results in a disconnection so that properly gathered intelligence is not considered intelligently due to decision makers not being chosen due to ability. The end results make "Get Smart" look like competent superspies in comparison.
An effective trick is to state problems but not solutions.
If you do not believe in magic it's best to avoid those that employ that trick.
So there you go, something to watch out for and how someone can say something that is perfectly true but completely and utterly useless.
Consequence not construct. The roots were in Saudi Arabia with the rich sending money for "the struggle" and Turkey wanting something to counter the Kurds. Add in a large group of people locked out of the US funded government in Iraq and all it took was a match to blow up. So fuckup and not paying attention to actions of backstabbing allies instead of a deliberate construction. Yet another spectacular failure of spooks playing at being toy soldiers. The thing that boogles me the most is ISIL/ISIS/Daash were and most likely still are exporting large amounts of oil despite having skies full of opposing fighters and bombers.
The Manning leak that showed she wanted the credit card numbers of diplomats of allied nations so that they could be used for blackmail (yes something that stupid was in writing and available at Manning's clearance level) should have finished her. She probably kicked off the Swedish Assange stupidity as revenge.
Then again, there's that other guy on the Republican side that should have been finished in politics forever when the tollbooth idiocy came to light, and there's Trump who has been "captured" four times in business but has no time for a soldier who was captured.
The current flock make Carter and Nixon look like paragons of competence and virtue.
How about we do it more directly and stop buy oil from those Saudis that are funding ISIS/Daash and those oil companies that are buying oil from ISIS/Daash.
Blocking a few web pages isn't going to do anywhere near as much in comparison. They need funds more than they need recruits.
This thread is about a limit to freedom of speech FFS.
What is it with you people? You stood up for blocking speech with your first post and now you are saying that I'm attempting to limit your speech? Is that a good thing or is it not? You are having it both ways at your convenience.
Stuff is being built but imports to run them are down - here's a bit about expected excess capacity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11...
It's worth noting that there is a wait of years just to get a turbine rotor so even with sensible planning stuff can come on line a few years after it's clear it's not needed. In this situation it doesn't look like sensible planning.
Are you joking? For decades Westinghouse etc have had bigger PR budgets than their R&D budgets.
Wth a quick search I couldn't find anything global (thanks to it being a popular company name) but due US coal being heavily exported the graph does tell the story.
As for US only, I'm In Australia. In the coal and oil exploration industry (I normally don't mention it because it makes nuke fanboys angry). We do work in Mongolia, Mozambique, Russia, Indonesia etc but there's a lot less going on now as seen by the global coal price dropping due to less demand (which differs from the oil situation where the price drop is from a deliberate glut from the Saudis etc to attempt to drive the shale oil producers in the US out of business).
You wish me to give you a free pass for denial of an obvious ongoing effort to influence and suppress media reports critical of a the actions the political party currently running Israel?
Yes or no?
OK you are pretending not to understand again. If anyone else gets this far down the thread who is not pretending to be stupid the story is the ABC is well known for being impartial yet they are being accused of bias in this case because the reporter some years ago said that she admired the war correspondent Mr Fisk of the Guardian. How petty can a claim of bias get? This very tenous and petty claim of bias is AN EXAMPLE OF THE PROPAGANDA is it not? And that's just today.
Of course I read it. It's an example of the pressure as applied by Abetz who is for sale.
Here is another since it appears you wish to pretend you live under a rock:
http://www.jewishnews.net.au/a...
Go on then - accuse jewishnews of being anti-semetic.
Except there is an app for that :)
There is an existing compatibility framework for android that can run on other things. Jolla and others have licenced it.
Why do I keep getting these losers who think that there is only one other person on the internet? Different usernames imply different people FFS.
A fairly old example but a product that you are probably using.
After Netscape's web browser got popular Microsoft decided they wanted one too.
They bought what became Internet Explorer from a company called Spyglass. As part of the deal they offered a fairly high percentage of sales royalties and Spyglass jumped at the deal despite it being not a great deal of money up front.
Microsoft gave it away for free so the royalties were zero.
Don't.
The big guys are happy with things just rolling along most of the time. It's the small guys that want a game changer so that they can get somewhere. After they have built it up to the point where it is selling the big guys may condescend to notice.
Not to be forgotten is effectively having a giant UPS and being more resistant to the increasing price gouging of energy utilities.
Maybe then as well but I'm describing the more recent incident.
As for "conspiracy", are you joking or are you just using that as an excuse for not being aware of the topic? It has been very overt, very public and even PR people paid money to get messages out FFS!
One of the low points of the US nuclear industry was when they lobbied to get thorium research shut down during the Clinton administration. Nuclear fanboys should take note that the current players just want to collect the rent on 1970s technology and anything better than what they have endangers their cash flow - real progress is limited to military spinoffs. For anything better it's going to have to be government research opposing that lobby group or imported technology.
India has been doing things with thorium but the promising efforts (eg. the accelerated thorium reactor that can also get a lot more out of used uranium fuel rods from other reactor) have been slowed down a bit due to India being offered a lot of the 1970s uranium technology from those same culprits in the US nuclear industry.