Hitler's "robots" were used to great effect against the Polish insurgents, so in a way the remotely controlled soldier was field tested for Iraq over 60 years ago. In concept at least.
Yea. Like how long it takes for a random location to be hit. Think of being a greasy young teenager for four and a half billion years. The moon doesn't look so bad.
Your reading comprehension needs improvement. The deaths were a result of the Gulf War, the figure you quoted was the "after" of a before and after comparison.
You're kidding right? Did you bother to read those?
First link:
Wednesday, 12 August 1999: The first surveys since 1991 of child and maternal mortality in Iraq reveal that in the heavily-populated southern and central parts of the country, children under five are dying at more than twice the rate they were ten years ago. UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy said the findings reveal an ongoing humanitarian emergency.
The surveys reveal that in the south and center of Iraq -- home to 85 per cent of the country's population -- under-5 mortality more than doubled from 56 deaths per 1000 live births (1984-1989) to 131 deaths per 1000 live births (1994-1999). Likewise infant mortality -- defined as the death of children in their first year -- increased from 47 per 1000 live births to 108 per 1000 live births within the same time frame. The surveys indicate a maternal mortality ratio in the south and center of 294 deaths per 100,000 live births over the ten-year period 1989 to 1999.
Ms. Bellamy noted that if the substantial reduction in child mortality throughout Iraq during the 1980s had continued through the 1990s, there would have been half a million fewer deaths of children under-five in the country as a whole during the eight year period 1991 to 1998. As a partial explanation, she pointed to a March statement of the Security Council Panel on Humanitarian Issues which states: "Even if not all suffering in Iraq can be imputed to external factors, especially sanctions, the Iraqi people would not be undergoing such deprivations in the absence of the prolonged measures imposed by the Security Council and the effects of war."
Second link: "Human Rights Watch estimates that as many as 290,000 Iraqis have been 'disappeared' by the Iraqi government over the past two decades,"
The latter link is from a suspected CIA plant, but lets say it's factual. SC sanctions and Bush Senior killed at least 210,000 more BABIES than Hussein's government killed men, women, and children (combined).
Whoa get your facts straight. Homo sapiens showed up around 200,000 years ago, but the last Neanderthals hung around until ~30-40k bp (depending on who you talk to). Art is still considered a uniquely Homo sapiens ability, and it didn't just instantly develop. The "decorated graves" are widely considered to be debris + corpses pushed into holes at the entrances to caves (otherwise you'd have all that crap building up in the back, which would attract predators). The earliest paintings showed up around the time that Neanderthals were kicking the bucket, and were most likely drawn by modern man. The confusion over who drew them results from the cohabitation of caves. When Homo sapiens would vacate a cave, Neanderthals would often move in. So you have several alternating stratigraphic layers of Neanderthals, Homo sapiens, and other animals. While you can date some of the paintings, you can't say precisely who was there the month (or even year) that the painting was created. Religion is a uniquely Homo sapiens psychosis.
The only time I use my 4g 20GB ipod these days is with the 15 minute sleep timer. I have trouble sleeping, so I just put it on 15 minute sleep timer and turn off the lights. The risk of strangulation by headphone cord is negligible.
Yea but they can cap the amount. When my mom wanted to charge some of her brandnew benz back in 99 (she had an Alaska Airlines cc, and wanted the miles:-P) they limited her to $4000. Supposedly that was the most they could charge, despite her limit being ~30k and fully paid off. This was at fletcher jones (southern california). I don't recall if it was a MB thing, cc thing, or just them not wanting to rack up the fees. Probably the last.
I have two phones on t-mobiles plan, and they do rollover. If you do the initial $100 for 1k minutes, after one year is up you just have to purchase any amount (even $5) and what remains of the original 1k + the new minutes will carry over (for one full year). Repeat yearly. I rarely use my backup cellphone, so I've spent $105 for two years of cellphone service. Every additional year is costing me 5 bucks.
unless the government wants to put checkpoints on every crossing. which would never happen. They already exist, they're called agricultural checkpoints. It may be strictly a California thing, but the state likes to keep the ferrets and other "exotic" flora/fauna on the other side of the border. Just add humans to that list and the pro-ID group is set.
we already have that for the first two. a social security card. A little piece of blue paper you're calling a national ID? There's no picture on it, so no.
BS. The problem with shrink is the actual removal of something, which this is not. If you want to go with the retail shrink metaphor, then this is more along the lines of an OfficeMax opening up across the street from OfficeDepot. OfficeMax says that it will be giving away free merchandise, but they will only carry 11% of the items that OfficeDepot stocks and all of the free items will be of shoddy quality (barely usable...we're talking 1-ply tp here that is made out of poison oak leaves). OfficeDepot may see a drop in sales, but at the MOST it could be an 11% drop, since 89% is exclusive to OfficeDepot. And of the potential 11%, only incredibly cheap people (within that 11%) would go to OfficeMax. These are the types who probably would have skipped buying the item from OfficeDepot if they didn't have a free alternative.
Net result, minimal loss.
The "hurt" area for the MPAA is in DVDrips. Most movies are being ripped at or before their dvd release date, in DVD quality. When something like 90% of your stock is being offered for free and is of the same quality, there is potential for a serious problem. But this does not have any real bearing on box office sales and camcorder "rips" of movies, nor does it have anything to do with shrink. Shrink for DVD sales occurs in the physical sense, and is a completely separate matter from online piracy.
I'm Polish, so you're just preaching to the choir about Katyn and Russia. Even "Federal" Russia is attempting to cover its ass on that one, for fear of the political repercussions 60 years after the fact.
As for my sarcasm, I guess I must limit it to the non-political.:)
Reminds me of how a previous leader basically annulled the Treaty of Versailles, before going on a global war against the infidels, and those who threatened his nation. His name escapes me. He too saw the limitations placed on his country's defenses as lunacy. Déjà vu.
Actually, I eat the amount I do primarily because of my rather noisy stomach. I don't get hungry, but the gurgle and growl lets me know when my body desires more sacrifices. While at home it's no big deal and I can go a day or so without actually feeling hungry (and since I don't move around much while at home, the sounds are almost null -- nothing is being burned), but in public it's rather embarrassing.
Back in hs I was consuming an average of 4000 calories a day of fast food and other garbage while taking weight training (for pe req), and I maintained my weight (135lbs @ 5'8"). Since then I pretty much stopped exercising entirely, and my calorie intake went down to the 2000-2500 range. Net result: I now classify as "overweight" (26 bmi). Exercise makes a hell of a difference.
Ah, but all he has to do is disable the command structure. So a bullet to some Russian's head, or an elaborate scheme to infiltrate the elite nuclear command facility where a virus (which Chloe managed to write in 2-3 minutes) disables all of the nuclear warheads and their launch facilities. Oh, and a few bullets to the head along the way.
If that fails, we still have seven days for Frank Parker to sober up and do his thing.
Or perhaps we should just remove the warning labels and let nature take its course. Seriously. The world could benefit from the loss of a few thousand...million...humans of below-average intelligence. And as for the law on quantity of children, you've got my vote.
First off, the point of my rant was that driving is not a privilege, and is in fact a necessity (for many). Privilege implies that it is something to be desired, and appreciated. Spend a few hours in L.A. traffic and any concept of it being a privilege will quickly fade. It's a necessary evil, until mass transit improves to the point that it's cheaper and more practical than driving.
If you cannot afford to provide for your spawn, you don't get to have any.
Why stop there? If people cannot afford to provide for themselves, they do not get to live! Here here! I agree that these people with 3+ children and living off welfare are disgusting and need to be dealt with better (like say, legalization of 30th trimester abortions?) but having a single child is not the problem. I'm all for a ChIndian race of super intelligent human beings as the future of humanity, but it'd be nice to have some other cultures represented as well.
You say that sarcastically, but in much of the states it is impossible to hold a job without a car, even if you're just working part time to allow time for your children. Companies rarely provide carpool vans, the bus system is a joke in most cities, and few subways exist beyond the eastcoast. Out here on the westcoast trains are ridiculously expensive, and not viable options for daily transportation (even with the daily commuter discounts). One of my college near-minimum wage jobs had me working alongside a person commuting over 80 miles a day for a $12/hour job (person was a manager, and a parent). Having a single car for two working adults is laughable pretty much anywhere outside of New York, and one job is insufficient to support most families (in my own experience), even living frugally.
For those who can afford it it's a great idea to spend as much time with your kids as possible (at least, early on:) ) but not everyone has that option.
Detective: Look, there's Lars now, sitting by his pool.
Kyle: What's the matter with him?
Detective: This month he was hoping to have a gold plated shark tank bar installed right next to the pool, but thanks to people downloading his music for free he must now wait a few months before he can afford it.
*Lars crying next to his pool*
Detective: Come, there's more. Here's Britney Spears' private jet...notice anything? Britney used to have a Gulfstream 4, now she's had to sell it and get a Gulfstream 3 because people like you chose to download her music for free.
*Britney sighs, depressed*
Detective: The Gulfstream 3 doesn't even have a remote control for its surround sound dvd system. Still think downloading music for free is no big deal?
Kyle: We...didn't realize what we were doing...
Detective: That is the folly of man. Now look in this window. Here you see the loving family of Master P. Next week is his son's birthday and all he's ever wanted is an island in French Polynesia.
Kyle: So he's going to get it, right?
Detective: *closes eyes and puts hands on forehead* I see an island without an owner. If thing's keep going the way they are, the child will not get his tropical paradise.
Stan: We're sorry, we'll never download music for free again!
Detective: Man must learn to think of these horrible outcomes before he acts selfishly, or else...I fear...recording artists will be forever doomed to a life of only semi-luxury.
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Hitler's "robots" were used to great effect against the Polish insurgents, so in a way the remotely controlled soldier was field tested for Iraq over 60 years ago. In concept at least.
Yea. Like how long it takes for a random location to be hit. Think of being a greasy young teenager for four and a half billion years. The moon doesn't look so bad.
Your reading comprehension needs improvement. The deaths were a result of the Gulf War, the figure you quoted was the "after" of a before and after comparison.
You're kidding right? Did you bother to read those?
First link:
Wednesday, 12 August 1999: The first surveys since 1991 of child and maternal mortality in Iraq reveal that in the heavily-populated southern and central parts of the country, children under five are dying at more than twice the rate they were ten years ago. UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy said the findings reveal an ongoing humanitarian emergency.
The surveys reveal that in the south and center of Iraq -- home to 85 per cent of the country's population -- under-5 mortality more than doubled from 56 deaths per 1000 live births (1984-1989) to 131 deaths per 1000 live births (1994-1999). Likewise infant mortality -- defined as the death of children in their first year -- increased from 47 per 1000 live births to 108 per 1000 live births within the same time frame. The surveys indicate a maternal mortality ratio in the south and center of 294 deaths per 100,000 live births over the ten-year period 1989 to 1999.
Ms. Bellamy noted that if the substantial reduction in child mortality throughout Iraq during the 1980s had continued through the 1990s, there would have been half a million fewer deaths of children under-five in the country as a whole during the eight year period 1991 to 1998. As a partial explanation, she pointed to a March statement of the Security Council Panel on Humanitarian Issues which states: "Even if not all suffering in Iraq can be imputed to external factors, especially sanctions, the Iraqi people would not be undergoing such deprivations in the absence of the prolonged measures imposed by the Security Council and the effects of war."
Second link:
"Human Rights Watch estimates that as many as 290,000 Iraqis have been 'disappeared' by the Iraqi government over the past two decades,"
The latter link is from a suspected CIA plant, but lets say it's factual. SC sanctions and Bush Senior killed at least 210,000 more BABIES than Hussein's government killed men, women, and children (combined).
An enlightening pair of links. Thank you.
I hereby coin the phrase "ass click"
Assuming it would be absorbed into the US?
The coming ice age should take care of them. Along with those pesky EU socialists, and nutjob USians. Viva la Mexico!
Whoa get your facts straight. Homo sapiens showed up around 200,000 years ago, but the last Neanderthals hung around until ~30-40k bp (depending on who you talk to). Art is still considered a uniquely Homo sapiens ability, and it didn't just instantly develop. The "decorated graves" are widely considered to be debris + corpses pushed into holes at the entrances to caves (otherwise you'd have all that crap building up in the back, which would attract predators). The earliest paintings showed up around the time that Neanderthals were kicking the bucket, and were most likely drawn by modern man. The confusion over who drew them results from the cohabitation of caves. When Homo sapiens would vacate a cave, Neanderthals would often move in. So you have several alternating stratigraphic layers of Neanderthals, Homo sapiens, and other animals. While you can date some of the paintings, you can't say precisely who was there the month (or even year) that the painting was created. Religion is a uniquely Homo sapiens psychosis.
The only time I use my 4g 20GB ipod these days is with the 15 minute sleep timer. I have trouble sleeping, so I just put it on 15 minute sleep timer and turn off the lights. The risk of strangulation by headphone cord is negligible.
Yea but they can cap the amount. When my mom wanted to charge some of her brandnew benz back in 99 (she had an Alaska Airlines cc, and wanted the miles :-P) they limited her to $4000. Supposedly that was the most they could charge, despite her limit being ~30k and fully paid off. This was at fletcher jones (southern california). I don't recall if it was a MB thing, cc thing, or just them not wanting to rack up the fees. Probably the last.
You realize that genre emerged from the west coast, don't you?
Irony, thy name is AC.
As a citizen of the United States, I prefer Californian.
Erm I'm sorry 10 dollars, not 5 (for the minimum prepaid card amount). I could swear they had a 5. . . .
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http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/default.aspx?p
their site seems to be running fairly slow at the moment. This is for the US, I'm not sure what the t-mobile prepaid plans are like for the rest of the world.
I have two phones on t-mobiles plan, and they do rollover. If you do the initial $100 for 1k minutes, after one year is up you just have to purchase any amount (even $5) and what remains of the original 1k + the new minutes will carry over (for one full year). Repeat yearly. I rarely use my backup cellphone, so I've spent $105 for two years of cellphone service. Every additional year is costing me 5 bucks.
They already exist, they're called agricultural checkpoints. It may be strictly a California thing, but the state likes to keep the ferrets and other "exotic" flora/fauna on the other side of the border. Just add humans to that list and the pro-ID group is set.
we already have that for the first two. a social security card.
A little piece of blue paper you're calling a national ID? There's no picture on it, so no.
Net result, minimal loss.
The "hurt" area for the MPAA is in DVDrips. Most movies are being ripped at or before their dvd release date, in DVD quality. When something like 90% of your stock is being offered for free and is of the same quality, there is potential for a serious problem. But this does not have any real bearing on box office sales and camcorder "rips" of movies, nor does it have anything to do with shrink. Shrink for DVD sales occurs in the physical sense, and is a completely separate matter from online piracy.
I'm Polish, so you're just preaching to the choir about Katyn and Russia. Even "Federal" Russia is attempting to cover its ass on that one, for fear of the political repercussions 60 years after the fact.
:)
As for my sarcasm, I guess I must limit it to the non-political.
Reminds me of how a previous leader basically annulled the Treaty of Versailles, before going on a global war against the infidels, and those who threatened his nation. His name escapes me. He too saw the limitations placed on his country's defenses as lunacy. Déjà vu.
Back in hs I was consuming an average of 4000 calories a day of fast food and other garbage while taking weight training (for pe req), and I maintained my weight (135lbs @ 5'8"). Since then I pretty much stopped exercising entirely, and my calorie intake went down to the 2000-2500 range. Net result: I now classify as "overweight" (26 bmi). Exercise makes a hell of a difference.
Well looking at my backyard, I wouldn't be so quick to knock global cooling. Rapid climate change? What rapid climate change? :)
Atomic6 already covered that.
If that fails, we still have seven days for Frank Parker to sober up and do his thing.
Or perhaps we should just remove the warning labels and let nature take its course. Seriously. The world could benefit from the loss of a few thousand...million...humans of below-average intelligence. And as for the law on quantity of children, you've got my vote.
First off, the point of my rant was that driving is not a privilege, and is in fact a necessity (for many). Privilege implies that it is something to be desired, and appreciated. Spend a few hours in L.A. traffic and any concept of it being a privilege will quickly fade. It's a necessary evil, until mass transit improves to the point that it's cheaper and more practical than driving.
If you cannot afford to provide for your spawn, you don't get to have any.
Why stop there? If people cannot afford to provide for themselves, they do not get to live! Here here!
I agree that these people with 3+ children and living off welfare are disgusting and need to be dealt with better (like say, legalization of 30th trimester abortions?) but having a single child is not the problem. I'm all for a ChIndian race of super intelligent human beings as the future of humanity, but it'd be nice to have some other cultures represented as well.
You say that sarcastically, but in much of the states it is impossible to hold a job without a car, even if you're just working part time to allow time for your children. Companies rarely provide carpool vans, the bus system is a joke in most cities, and few subways exist beyond the eastcoast. Out here on the westcoast trains are ridiculously expensive, and not viable options for daily transportation (even with the daily commuter discounts). One of my college near-minimum wage jobs had me working alongside a person commuting over 80 miles a day for a $12/hour job (person was a manager, and a parent). Having a single car for two working adults is laughable pretty much anywhere outside of New York, and one job is insufficient to support most families (in my own experience), even living frugally.
For those who can afford it it's a great idea to spend as much time with your kids as possible (at least, early on :) ) but not everyone has that option.
Detective: Look, there's Lars now, sitting by his pool.
Kyle: What's the matter with him?
Detective: This month he was hoping to have a gold plated shark tank bar installed right next to the pool, but thanks to people downloading his music for free he must now wait a few months before he can afford it.
*Lars crying next to his pool*
Detective: Come, there's more. Here's Britney Spears' private jet...notice anything? Britney used to have a Gulfstream 4, now she's had to sell it and get a Gulfstream 3 because people like you chose to download her music for free.
*Britney sighs, depressed*
Detective: The Gulfstream 3 doesn't even have a remote control for its surround sound dvd system. Still think downloading music for free is no big deal?
Kyle: We...didn't realize what we were doing...
Detective: That is the folly of man. Now look in this window. Here you see the loving family of Master P. Next week is his son's birthday and all he's ever wanted is an island in French Polynesia.
Kyle: So he's going to get it, right?
Detective: *closes eyes and puts hands on forehead* I see an island without an owner. If thing's keep going the way they are, the child will not get his tropical paradise.
Stan: We're sorry, we'll never download music for free again!
Detective: Man must learn to think of these horrible outcomes before he acts selfishly, or else...I fear...recording artists will be forever doomed to a life of only semi-luxury.