The CRN webpage may as well talk about their 'nigerian' friends that need your help.
It goes on and on about how everything will be perfect, fast and solve every problem you can think of... and finishes with a link where you can support there great cause.
DONT MAKE THOSE BASTARDS RICH OFF OF YOUR STUPIDITY.
It is nothing more than a con job that targets the nerdy.
It is cold fusion. The area of the beaker heated is so small, on the order of nanometers, that the solution does not get hot. Think the palladium method is actually cold?...
Let's take the palladium method... on the scale of those two individual atoms... at the moment they fuse in that even smaller area, huge temperatures would also exist from the energy released, which only amounts to a tiny temperature change through the entire medium of the experiment.
You do not have the right to drive, let alone drive anonomously.
If you don't like it, exercise your right no not drive.
Cops do random checks of license plates all the time, the only difference is this system is much more efficient.
Will you complain when the system locates your stolen car? Will you complain when the system notifies the police that a pedifile is in your area who has a restriction against being there?
The silent black helicopters are not always after you.
The article failed to mention that the method used in the latest interesting cold fusion experiments has NOTHING to do with the controversial palladium electrode method.
The method that is producing real results involves an acetone solution containing deuterium.
The solution has a high intensity of sound waves of a specific frequency applied to it... like a sonic jewellry cleaner only much much more powerful. The solution is also bombarded with neutrons.
nanoscopic bubbles are introduced into the solution. The intense compression and expansion of the sound waves caused the bubbles to expand from 50 or so nanometers upto a size big enough to see... the bubbles being virtually a vacuum inside a liquid slams back down to nano-scale size, accelerated again by the sound waves.
This effect on an extremely small scale appears to create the pressures and temperatures needed for deuterium to fuse with a neutron into tritium.
Tritium is produced by the experiment fusion is occuring. Take away any one of the factors and it doesnt work.
In the future they hope to be able to enhance the sonic compression effect enough to allow them to drop the neutron bombardment, fusion using the deuterium and hydrogen in the solution, but they aren't there yet.
Actually the joke is on you... for being suckered into spending your life trying to make user-unfriendly OSS crap do what you need when so much better is available.... I am giving you the benefit of the doubt, that you actually do more than just write out your grocery list in text files.
Otherwise instead of responding like I had defiled your little sister, you'd have some understanding of my point.
Now, lets look...
OSS CAD software... crap because you must use what the industry uses or you will get no business or won't be able to interact with clients.
OSS GIS software... better IF you can manage to find all the right libraries/components to actually make Grass, GEOS, PostGIS, MapServer do exactly what you need... IF IF IF, its taken weeks for me thanks to the OSS bastards
For example, GEOS programmers not bothering to post that they've been working on their software, making it unusable, while not disabling the download of their now broken product.... without a single word to tell anyone on the website. How many users ended up screwing their systems by upgrading to the code the developers knew was automatically being posted to their webpage broken!?!
Email! Forums! ya great if anyone would ever answer a question without holding back 90% of the information you need... because using OSS, Linux in particular, you must feel years of pain before being accepted! you must scream in agony before anyone is willing to explain anything in simple easy to understand instructions!
Now go back to writing your grocery lists. Come back when you actually need to deal with what you are trying to talk about.... and when you are willing to talk without hiding behind the 'anonymous' tag.
I hereby declare that since you feel someone out there should make software out of the kindness of their hearts, YOU shall write all the software I need, in your spare time, and have it run reliably, and that it be available to me right now. Oh, and I expect 24/7 technical support.
Get to work, I need that software, my way of life depends on it!... gee kinda sucks for you to know you won't be getting paid a penny to do it since you need no incentive.
but I sure love that you absolutely will have that software ready for me no matter how many months of 24/7 labour it requires of you, just to satisfy my needs. I have no doubt that your love of free programming for my profit, at your expense will ensure that I will get a superior, better made product!
Now stop reading this and get to work!... I expect all the capitalist moderators to be laughing hard, modding me up as insightful, and all the communist hive-minded slave wannabe's like the author of the post above me to mod me down as a troll.
Ok, so they found the trigger... poor maintenance left cables hanging down on trees, and a bug in software failed to set an alarm off when those cables tripped off.
But They need to deal with the REAL PROBLEM.
The surrounding electrical utilities, when they measured the power fluctuations hours before the cascade, acted soley to protect themselves instead of protecting the system and the customers. They acted to trip off their own systems and shunt the power drain to other utilities.
By doing so, loads too big to fill were thrown on down the line, forcing more and more utilities to trip off. ... the cascade failure.
The utilities are required by law to act for the system first, before ducking their heads in the sand the way they all did. They could have isolated a small area and left the outage as a minor event never making the news.
Instead in typical dumbass ignorant american fashion, everyone ignored what was happening including Dubya and tried to blame it on a utility in Canada.
The truth is out now, but with their rude american ways and short attention spans, it will never occur to them to even apologize to the Canadian people and systems that they in fact disrupted.
Notice that the moderation points are distributed as 40% offtopic, and 10% troll right now.
Yet again showing the world that those Linux zealots are scared of the truth, trying to hide your words below the threshold of many of the readers here. The day of the linux desktop has arrived! NOT, lets stop hearing that waste of a buzz word every 3 months.
The poster's description describes exactly what I've been going through trying to get some spatial database software to run on fedora.... but you left out a few points.
The zealots dont keep their websites or manuals upto date so you have no idea that there are more mandatory yet hidden steps that you must do to prevent failure. I love it when my newer compiler won't compile software coded for a slightly older version of the same compiler... at least Windows trys to keep things backwards compatible for more than a month or two!
The zealots never lay out exactly the step by step basic instructions that someone less familiar with linux could forget. The odd one of them makes an INSTALL.NEWBS file for those in need, but most assume that you can read between the lines and already know you need to install package xxx before package yyy. Forcing you to do things out of order, screw up the install and have to go back to the start and try again when ONE SIMPLE SENTANCE in the instructions would have saved me all the hastle.
I especially love those developers who have their hourly CVS snapshot ready for you to run with... but don't bother to post a warning or deactivate the link when for the last month the snapshot install won't give you functional software because they've been working on this or that in the background.
I have easily experienced 100 problems trying to install and run linux software for every single problem I've EVER encountered running the easily installed software for windows.... And I do a hell of a lot more with my time than just play quake.
Yes because we all know that linux has not one single security issue, no one has ever tried to attack linux computers, no one running linux has ever had a security problem EVER.
The pawnshops didnt want to hear about it because the police will walk in and confiscate the goods from them, and they will be out the money they paid the their.
Instead you need to make sure the police know, and tell them to search the pawnshops. The police check them out regularly anyways in most places.
Telling the pawnshop to expect your stolen ibooks is just telling them to hide the merchandise where the cops wont see it.
They should simply have been reported to the police, who would have confiscated it from them.
In due time, the owner would have gotten it back without paying EB.
EB is scum anyways. up here, on the other side of the continent, in Vancouver Canada, you often see games for sale that a new owner could never actually use!
For example, expansion packs for Everquest, that contain CD Keys that can only be used on one account... once used, they are useless. Does EB care? NOPE, they keep the used games on the shelf there hoping to screw you.
Regardless I dont buy at EB because they always cost more. I may go there to see if a game is available, then buy it cheaper elsewhere.
For the record, I had this idea about 5 years ago.
Only in my case it was simply an electronic card that stored or emulated all your other cards simply so that you didnt have to have your wallet stuffed with so many damn cards all the time.
In my case, I figured the big card companies wouldnt go for it because they loose the advertising. their name brand card is suddenly a generic card in appearance that doesnt stand out from other cards in the wallet.
And for the record, no, i didnt try to patent it or develope it.
Like hitting a wasp nest with a broom, listen to that angry buzz!
And right away a hundred attempts to defend linux with reasons that are just as pathetic as the reasons their enemies, the windows fanboys, would use had they been the worst in the survey.
It is not at all disturbing, he was simpling showing how you and I are more likely to recognize that the computer has sub-human intelligence if the computer looks like a human.
If the computer looked like something else, subconsciously you wouldn't have the direct link to appearance to use as a reference for the machine's smarts... you might think it is a lot more intelligent than it is.
Do you have any trouble identifying when a human obviously has low intelligence? no. Would you have trouble identifying when an android has low intelligence... maybe not if it didn't look human.
see, nothing disturbing, just human nature.
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Actually Canada is a world leader in breeder reactor technology and has tried to work with the US and Russia in using the reactors to dispose of plutonium from decommissioned nuclear warheads.
Unfortunately too many green organic people out there would rather have those warheads sitting around waiting to be stolen by Osama rather than let them be transported across borders to the reactor sites. The media has made them scared into thinking transportation is too dangerous.
I am not in favour of nuclear energy, there are too many by products that can't be disposed of safely, but I am very much in favour of using canadian breeder reactors to rid the world of as much plutonium as possible.
Use Macs and be an uber cool undetectable underground hacker!
If Macs can't be hacked... like some would say about various versions of linux... its simply because not enough people use it to be a suitable target. Not enough bang for the buck.
Move on, go back and hide in the obscurity of your poor choice in operating systems.
yet another person who doesnt know how it works, who would probably also have the world struggle to use linux instead of get along mostly just fine with windows.
You just hate the rich don't you? - well it takes rich people to make rich people.
How many tens of thousands of people are better off because they have worked for microsoft? Then the guy gives back $26billion to help people around the world and its still not good enough for you!
Now take all the good you've done, and compare that with all the bad you've done (be honest now! we've all done something bad now and then)... and try to pretend to us that you're anyware more on the good side than Bill.
Bill's business practices may not always have been up to Your standards, but the very system that let him become who he is is also the system that must always try to knock down those who are on top.
Its just an honourary title, its not a true knighthood.... Gates is not a citizen of a commonwealth country, he is not a subject of the queen, so he isn't eligible for a true knighthood.
But what the heck, he deserves whatever he gets, have any of you donated $26billion to charitable foundations lately?
wow now there's some gold ole amuuuricaaan ignorance for ya,
I never mentioned the UN, and If i had mentioned it, I would have said that Dubya shouldnt have wasted his time trying to spread the cost and the blame around by trying to draw in the UN countries. He wanted the UN to support him simply to foot the bill dispite the US's brutal history of not even paying their UN dues.
yes Saddam needed to be removed for many reasons, if only to correct the past actions of the US that made Saddam what he was.
HOWEVER Dubya had no business lying to the world about the reasons for the war. This is why it was un-just. He knows there are no WMD's, he knows they were destroyed in and after the first gulf war. He has publicly admitted that there is no proof there was ever any connection between 911 and Saddam after spending months trying to convice the US public otherwise.
According to your arguement we should have just believed anything Dubya said, trust him that wandering around destabilizing the world's security, killing innocent people (basicaly doing what Dubya accuses of Saddam), acting like some tough idiot Texan who is above any form of law or reason... will make the world a better place.
Now that Saddam is in custody, he'll be able remind the world of all the times he said there was no WMD's and no 911 connection, to force Dubya to show the proof behind the reasons given to the world for going to war.... if Dubya doesnt have him executed first.
Take your head out of your ass and realize it was all about US influence in the middle east, control of oil reserves, and finishing what Dubya's big Texas daddy started.
Disagree with me?... then why aren't you personally fighting to send troops into Iran, Zimbabwe, North Korea or any other dictatorship that has been doing the same bad things for many years?
What about your ally Pakistan, another great dictatorship, and one with nuclear weapons... but wait, they supported the US in Iraq (reluctantly) so they are allowed to abuse their people however they want. Nice and convenient isnt it?
of course the US doesnt want it in France, and of course it is because of the war. There's no surprise there. Canada is actually one of the front running countries for the location of the reactor but the Canadian government has decided it can't afford the necessary level of funding.
Dubya is so narrow minded that he can't separate any country from the topic of it's involvement with the unjust war.
But regardless, if a project could benefit the US, then the US will demand that they get it on their soil. ALL US trade policy, ALL US government action is based purely on screwing the world no matter how blatant and no matter how many treaties it breaks.
Hello, do you believe anything that bastard George dubya says?
He's already contradicted your theory by NOT dealing with North Korea to 'free the oppressed' there. oh wait, right, no oil in north korea.
China is the largest country on earth, with enough nuclear weapons to really mess up your weekend, and a billion people to simply swamp all the troops you could throw at her.
Remember the korean war? china simply kept flooding korea with tens of thousands of troops, more than could be killed. Its the great lack of respect for human life that the third world countries have that allow them to do this, while meanwhile, Dubya has to at least appear to care about american lives.
Why wouldn't china take Taiwan?... they took Tibet without the west doing anything, claiming that Tibet (like taiwan) has always been a province of china.
China has shown for decades that having it's way is more important than the economic success of the country or the poverty levels of their people, economy wont stop them. The average person in China has such a low standard of living that they will see no difference, and they know that rioting will just get them killed (Remember Tienamin square 1988?)
and to #4... The west won't help because of china's nuclear threat. if they did help, the help wouldnt when china uses their nukes. your 7th fleet plus all the rest, and every bomber you have wont matter when 500 major cities in the US are vapourized.... still leaving 100 or so nukes for china to use elsewhere. And don't try to say you'll just shoot the missiles down... your best systems (the ABM system being tested in Alaska) can only hit missiles travelling at half speed, that put out homing signals to intentionally draw in your weapons.
And most of all...
Bush would want taiwan to fall, so he has a better reason to continue with his unfair tariffs and blocking of imports that force you to buy crappy american made goods while your dollar collapses and your economy fails.
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The CRN webpage may as well talk about their 'nigerian' friends that need your help.
... and finishes with a link where you can support there great cause.
It goes on and on about how everything will be perfect, fast and solve every problem you can think of
DONT MAKE THOSE BASTARDS RICH OFF OF YOUR STUPIDITY.
It is nothing more than a con job that targets the nerdy.
Please do tell me when you are on the roads driving.
If you drive without responsibility, but merely with privilege, then I want to be sure I'm well away from any and all roads.
You're American right? would be a typical response for an american. Deny the need for responsibility, thinking you come first. Pathetic.
Think your special huh?
...
... on the scale of those two individual atoms ... at the moment they fuse in that even smaller area, huge temperatures would also exist from the energy released, which only amounts to a tiny temperature change through the entire medium of the experiment.
It is cold fusion. The area of the beaker heated is so small, on the order of nanometers, that the solution does not get hot. Think the palladium method is actually cold?
Let's take the palladium method
Driving is a responsibility not a right.
You do not have the right to drive, let alone drive anonomously.
If you don't like it, exercise your right no not drive.
Cops do random checks of license plates all the time, the only difference is this system is much more efficient.
Will you complain when the system locates your stolen car? Will you complain when the system notifies the police that a pedifile is in your area who has a restriction against being there?
The silent black helicopters are not always after you.
The article failed to mention that the method used in the latest interesting cold fusion experiments has NOTHING to do with the controversial palladium electrode method.
... like a sonic jewellry cleaner only much much more powerful. The solution is also bombarded with neutrons.
... the bubbles being virtually a vacuum inside a liquid slams back down to nano-scale size, accelerated again by the sound waves.
The method that is producing real results involves an acetone solution containing deuterium.
The solution has a high intensity of sound waves of a specific frequency applied to it
nanoscopic bubbles are introduced into the solution. The intense compression and expansion of the sound waves caused the bubbles to expand from 50 or so nanometers upto a size big enough to see
This effect on an extremely small scale appears to create the pressures and temperatures needed for deuterium to fuse with a neutron into tritium.
Tritium is produced by the experiment fusion is occuring. Take away any one of the factors and it doesnt work.
In the future they hope to be able to enhance the sonic compression effect enough to allow them to drop the neutron bombardment, fusion using the deuterium and hydrogen in the solution, but they aren't there yet.
Actually the joke is on you ... for being suckered into spending your life trying to make user-unfriendly OSS crap do what you need when so much better is available. ... I am giving you the benefit of the doubt, that you actually do more than just write out your grocery list in text files.
...
... crap because you must use what the industry uses or you will get no business or won't be able to interact with clients.
... better IF you can manage to find all the right libraries/components to actually make Grass, GEOS, PostGIS, MapServer do exactly what you need ... IF IF IF, its taken weeks for me thanks to the OSS bastards
... without a single word to tell anyone on the website. How many users ended up screwing their systems by upgrading to the code the developers knew was automatically being posted to their webpage broken!?!
... because using OSS, Linux in particular, you must feel years of pain before being accepted! you must scream in agony before anyone is willing to explain anything in simple easy to understand instructions!
... and when you are willing to talk without hiding behind the 'anonymous' tag.
Otherwise instead of responding like I had defiled your little sister, you'd have some understanding of my point.
Now, lets look
OSS CAD software
OSS GIS software
For example, GEOS programmers not bothering to post that they've been working on their software, making it unusable, while not disabling the download of their now broken product.
Email! Forums! ya great if anyone would ever answer a question without holding back 90% of the information you need
Now go back to writing your grocery lists. Come back when you actually need to deal with what you are trying to talk about.
I hereby declare that since you feel someone out there should make software out of the kindness of their hearts, YOU shall write all the software I need, in your spare time, and have it run reliably, and that it be available to me right now. Oh, and I expect 24/7 technical support.
... gee kinda sucks for you to know you won't be getting paid a penny to do it since you need no incentive.
... I expect all the capitalist moderators to be laughing hard, modding me up as insightful, and all the communist hive-minded slave wannabe's like the author of the post above me to mod me down as a troll.
Get to work, I need that software, my way of life depends on it!
but I sure love that you absolutely will have that software ready for me no matter how many months of 24/7 labour it requires of you, just to satisfy my needs. I have no doubt that your love of free programming for my profit, at your expense will ensure that I will get a superior, better made product!
Now stop reading this and get to work!
Ok, so they found the trigger ... poor maintenance left cables hanging down on trees, and a bug in software failed to set an alarm off when those cables tripped off.
.. the cascade failure.
But They need to deal with the REAL PROBLEM.
The surrounding electrical utilities, when they measured the power fluctuations hours before the cascade, acted soley to protect themselves instead of protecting the system and the customers. They acted to trip off their own systems and shunt the power drain to other utilities.
By doing so, loads too big to fill were thrown on down the line, forcing more and more utilities to trip off. .
The utilities are required by law to act for the system first, before ducking their heads in the sand the way they all did. They could have isolated a small area and left the outage as a minor event never making the news.
Instead in typical dumbass ignorant american fashion, everyone ignored what was happening including Dubya and tried to blame it on a utility in Canada.
The truth is out now, but with their rude american ways and short attention spans, it will never occur to them to even apologize to the Canadian people and systems that they in fact disrupted.
Notice that the moderation points are distributed as 40% offtopic, and 10% troll right now.
.... but you left out a few points.
... at least Windows trys to keep things backwards compatible for more than a month or two!
... but don't bother to post a warning or deactivate the link when for the last month the snapshot install won't give you functional software because they've been working on this or that in the background.
... And I do a hell of a lot more with my time than just play quake.
Yet again showing the world that those Linux zealots are scared of the truth, trying to hide your words below the threshold of many of the readers here. The day of the linux desktop has arrived! NOT, lets stop hearing that waste of a buzz word every 3 months.
The poster's description describes exactly what I've been going through trying to get some spatial database software to run on fedora
The zealots dont keep their websites or manuals upto date so you have no idea that there are more mandatory yet hidden steps that you must do to prevent failure. I love it when my newer compiler won't compile software coded for a slightly older version of the same compiler
The zealots never lay out exactly the step by step basic instructions that someone less familiar with linux could forget. The odd one of them makes an INSTALL.NEWBS file for those in need, but most assume that you can read between the lines and already know you need to install package xxx before package yyy. Forcing you to do things out of order, screw up the install and have to go back to the start and try again when ONE SIMPLE SENTANCE in the instructions would have saved me all the hastle.
I especially love those developers who have their hourly CVS snapshot ready for you to run with
I have easily experienced 100 problems trying to install and run linux software for every single problem I've EVER encountered running the easily installed software for windows.
Yes because we all know that linux has not one single security issue, no one has ever tried to attack linux computers, no one running linux has ever had a security problem EVER.
The pawnshops didnt want to hear about it because the police will walk in and confiscate the goods from them, and they will be out the money they paid the their.
Instead you need to make sure the police know, and tell them to search the pawnshops. The police check them out regularly anyways in most places.
Telling the pawnshop to expect your stolen ibooks is just telling them to hide the merchandise where the cops wont see it.
EB was in possesion of stolen property.
... once used, they are useless. Does EB care? NOPE, they keep the used games on the shelf there hoping to screw you.
They should simply have been reported to the police, who would have confiscated it from them.
In due time, the owner would have gotten it back without paying EB.
EB is scum anyways. up here, on the other side of the continent, in Vancouver Canada, you often see games for sale that a new owner could never actually use!
For example, expansion packs for Everquest, that contain CD Keys that can only be used on one account
Regardless I dont buy at EB because they always cost more. I may go there to see if a game is available, then buy it cheaper elsewhere.
For the record, I had this idea about 5 years ago.
Only in my case it was simply an electronic card that stored or emulated all your other cards simply so that you didnt have to have your wallet stuffed with so many damn cards all the time.
In my case, I figured the big card companies wouldnt go for it because they loose the advertising. their name brand card is suddenly a generic card in appearance that doesnt stand out from other cards in the wallet.
And for the record, no, i didnt try to patent it or develope it.
Like hitting a wasp nest with a broom, listen to that angry buzz!
And right away a hundred attempts to defend linux with reasons that are just as pathetic as the reasons their enemies, the windows fanboys, would use had they been the worst in the survey.
The emperor has no clothes!
It is not at all disturbing, he was simpling showing how you and I are more likely to recognize that the computer has sub-human intelligence if the computer looks like a human.
... you might think it is a lot more intelligent than it is.
... maybe not if it didn't look human.
If the computer looked like something else, subconsciously you wouldn't have the direct link to appearance to use as a reference for the machine's smarts
Do you have any trouble identifying when a human obviously has low intelligence? no. Would you have trouble identifying when an android has low intelligence
see, nothing disturbing, just human nature.
Actually Canada is a world leader in breeder reactor technology and has tried to work with the US and Russia in using the reactors to dispose of plutonium from decommissioned nuclear warheads.
Unfortunately too many green organic people out there would rather have those warheads sitting around waiting to be stolen by Osama rather than let them be transported across borders to the reactor sites. The media has made them scared into thinking transportation is too dangerous.
I am not in favour of nuclear energy, there are too many by products that can't be disposed of safely, but I am very much in favour of using canadian breeder reactors to rid the world of as much plutonium as possible.
Yes everyone, my message was BANG ON CORRECT.
why else would the truth be modded as flamebait.
Move on, theres nothing to see here.
... like some would say about various versions of linux ... its simply because not enough people use it to be a suitable target. Not enough bang for the buck.
This is nothing but a Mac advertising campaign.
Use Macs and be an uber cool undetectable underground hacker!
If Macs can't be hacked
Move on, go back and hide in the obscurity of your poor choice in operating systems.
yet another person who doesnt know how it works, who would probably also have the world struggle to use linux instead of get along mostly just fine with windows.
... and try to pretend to us that you're anyware more on the good side than Bill.
You just hate the rich don't you? - well it takes rich people to make rich people.
How many tens of thousands of people are better off because they have worked for microsoft? Then the guy gives back $26billion to help people around the world and its still not good enough for you!
Now take all the good you've done, and compare that with all the bad you've done (be honest now! we've all done something bad now and then)
Bill's business practices may not always have been up to Your standards, but the very system that let him become who he is is also the system that must always try to knock down those who are on top.
Its just an honourary title, its not a true knighthood. ... Gates is not a citizen of a commonwealth country, he is not a subject of the queen, so he isn't eligible for a true knighthood.
But what the heck, he deserves whatever he gets, have any of you donated $26billion to charitable foundations lately?
He's run out of places in Iraq to search for all those weapon's of mass destruction.
wow now there's some gold ole amuuuricaaan ignorance for ya,
... will make the world a better place.
.... if Dubya doesnt have him executed first.
... then why aren't you personally fighting to send troops into Iran, Zimbabwe, North Korea or any other dictatorship that has been doing the same bad things for many years?
... but wait, they supported the US in Iraq (reluctantly) so they are allowed to abuse their people however they want. Nice and convenient isnt it?
I never mentioned the UN, and If i had mentioned it, I would have said that Dubya shouldnt have wasted his time trying to spread the cost and the blame around by trying to draw in the UN countries. He wanted the UN to support him simply to foot the bill dispite the US's brutal history of not even paying their UN dues.
yes Saddam needed to be removed for many reasons, if only to correct the past actions of the US that made Saddam what he was.
HOWEVER Dubya had no business lying to the world about the reasons for the war. This is why it was un-just. He knows there are no WMD's, he knows they were destroyed in and after the first gulf war. He has publicly admitted that there is no proof there was ever any connection between 911 and Saddam after spending months trying to convice the US public otherwise.
According to your arguement we should have just believed anything Dubya said, trust him that wandering around destabilizing the world's security, killing innocent people (basicaly doing what Dubya accuses of Saddam), acting like some tough idiot Texan who is above any form of law or reason
Now that Saddam is in custody, he'll be able remind the world of all the times he said there was no WMD's and no 911 connection, to force Dubya to show the proof behind the reasons given to the world for going to war
Take your head out of your ass and realize it was all about US influence in the middle east, control of oil reserves, and finishing what Dubya's big Texas daddy started.
Disagree with me?
What about your ally Pakistan, another great dictatorship, and one with nuclear weapons
of course the US doesnt want it in France, and of course it is because of the war. There's no surprise there. Canada is actually one of the front running countries for the location of the reactor but the Canadian government has decided it can't afford the necessary level of funding.
Dubya is so narrow minded that he can't separate any country from the topic of it's involvement with the unjust war.
But regardless, if a project could benefit the US, then the US will demand that they get it on their soil. ALL US trade policy, ALL US government action is based purely on screwing the world no matter how blatant and no matter how many treaties it breaks.
'Flamebait' ... obviously the truth hurt that moderator a little too much.
Hello, do you believe anything that bastard George dubya says?
... they took Tibet without the west doing anything, claiming that Tibet (like taiwan) has always been a province of china.
... ... your best systems (the ABM system being tested in Alaska) can only hit missiles travelling at half speed, that put out homing signals to intentionally draw in your weapons.
He's already contradicted your theory by NOT dealing with North Korea to 'free the oppressed' there. oh wait, right, no oil in north korea.
China is the largest country on earth, with enough nuclear weapons to really mess up your weekend, and a billion people to simply swamp all the troops you could throw at her.
Remember the korean war? china simply kept flooding korea with tens of thousands of troops, more than could be killed. Its the great lack of respect for human life that the third world countries have that allow them to do this, while meanwhile, Dubya has to at least appear to care about american lives.
Why wouldn't china take Taiwan?
China has shown for decades that having it's way is more important than the economic success of the country or the poverty levels of their people, economy wont stop them. The average person in China has such a low standard of living that they will see no difference, and they know that rioting will just get them killed (Remember Tienamin square 1988?)
and to #4
The west won't help because of china's nuclear threat. if they did help, the help wouldnt when china uses their nukes. your 7th fleet plus all the rest, and every bomber you have wont matter when 500 major cities in the US are vapourized.... still leaving 100 or so nukes for china to use elsewhere. And don't try to say you'll just shoot the missiles down
And most of all...
Bush would want taiwan to fall, so he has a better reason to continue with his unfair tariffs and blocking of imports that force you to buy crappy american made goods while your dollar collapses and your economy fails.