That's right the guy who got caught with the performance enhancing drugs during the Tour de France had a warrant issued for him today for hacking. I don't know what it is over but maybe his attempts to tamper with the committee who tested him maybe. I don't know all the info but I just saw it on the news channel. Nevermind here it is
PARIS — The United States cyclist Floyd Landis was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs, but the fallout from his doping case has lingered.
Thomas Cassuto, a French judge, issued an arrest warrant for Landis last month, in connection with a computer hacking case, said Astrid Granoux, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, which is handling the matter.
“That means he would be arrested if he came to France,” Granoux said Monday, adding that the warrant had not been distributed outside of French territory.
Landis, who raced for the Ouch Pro Cycling Team last year, parted ways with the team last fall. He could not be reached for comment Monday.
Cassuto is seeking to question Landis about the data hacking that occurred in the fall of 2006 at the Châtenay-Malabry antidoping lab, which is the facility that conducted the tests on Landis’s urine samples from the 2006 Tour.
A very public dispute between Landis and the lab’s officials was the crux of Landis’s defense in his doping case, which ended in his being barred from the sport for two years. Landis and his defense team had alleged that the lab’s testing procedures were sloppy, so its test results could not be trusted.
Pierre Bordry, the lab’s director, said a security breach of the facility’s computers occurred because hackers wanted to obtain data to discredit its scientists. He said that some of the stolen data had been altered to make it seem as if the lab had made errors.
In November 2006, lab officials filed a formal complaint saying that its computer data had been stolen and used in Landis’s defense. That confidential data was also sent to other labs and news media, officials said. A subsequent search of the lab’s computers turned up a Trojan horse, which is a program that allowed an outsider to remotely download files.
Investigators concluded that the program could have originated from an e-mail message sent to the lab from a computer using the same Internet protocol address as Arnie Baker, Landis’s coach.
Landis and Baker, who continue to insist that Landis did not use performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour, deny being involved in the computer hacking.
fixed "The only reason they're working to resolve it is because of Kevin Smith. If it was a nobody with no platform to mention this from, Slashdot would've cared much less."
Seriously did everyone not see the infamous photo of the guy hanging half way into the aisle, that is what started a lot of this.
That might be true except for the giant period you ignored where almost everyone didn't upgrade to VIsta, funny XP gets all this praise after years of being torn apart as the most insecure OS during the Vista release and even after the excuse that Vista was bloat which Win7 came along to fix people still complain. Win7 replaced an old copy of WinXP on an old Dell 1150 laptop and it actually runs better even though I only invested $30 for 2GB of ram at FRY's, even though I had to do a quick google search for video drivers everything else(wifi,burner,etc) worked perfectly fine. MS used to always be great at the compatibility part and terrible at security/stability, but they have really fixed those two other voids with Vista/Win7 and the ball is in their court. Linux missed the biggest opportunity to capatilize on MS's blunder with Vista and there might never be a chance again for 15+ years considering how stable Win7 is.
"grief and hassle" Uhh last time I updated my motherboard and a couple other components I had to call in to get my key authenticated, it was hardly that painful. A lot of exaggeration about phone support around here, it can do a lot of good for your OS when people cannot even get on to a forum for help.
It is not painful to call MS and get a new key, I did it under 10 minutes a couple times when switching around Motherboards. 1.Phone in and enter your product key using the pad or read it to operator 2.Operator - "is this the only computer you will be using it on" 3.Me: "yes" 4.Operator: "ok I am going to read out your key and enter it as I say" 5.Me: "Ok its activated" 6.Operator: "thank you, come again..."
That's not painful at all and if you think that is bad than I don't really think that reflects the market/peoples opinion. On what planet do you spend most of your time on?
What is with exaggerating things around here with Windows Activation? Obviously the false positives only get news on Slashdot and nowhere else or on the major news, get over it and accept it is a decent system. People have been predicting that even on XP WGA would be the demise of it and customers would never tolerate the false positives.
'False Positive' articles and the most random probabilities seem to happen to get modded up, such crap as "there must be some pirate out there using somebody else's legitimate key". *think of the children*(or the super small minority) I don't even know where to start with the calculations and odds of such a thing happening, if you all of a sudden freak out like people at Slashdot do and try to concentrate all your development on this one little random problem you would have a bankrupt business.
If you haven't used Google Sky Maps yet it is the best tool to visually point out where stars are, combine that with a telescope and you'll fly through the sky in no time.
You just hold the phone up to the stars and it shows you a perfect image view per view of what youre looking at, pointing out which stars are what and you can choose the level of detail. I know I always had a problem when younger and people saying "see that star..." and me "you mean that one around the other thousand".
This tool is so great and I am sure one of your students has a Android device, the app is FREE.
Yeah maybe back in the days 80's/90's but video surveillance/recording has improved vastly and infrared/night vision will make a shooter stand out like a sore thumb. It happens every couple years in the news of a chopper being brought down Search for some old Youtube footage of things like 'British IRA shooter caught on camera' and find some interesting footage of what they successfully did in the past with helicopters with out the shooters even knowing they were there.
Guy I used to work under in construction used to be a former Long Beach Police Officer by the name of Glenn and he was learning how to fly R-22 choppers and he would chat it up with the local Police Chopper pilots; well he used to bring in some crazy stories of watching as drive bye shootings would happen and this car would all of a sudden look like it was spraying sparks out its windows. Youtube is just filled with Police Helicopter FLIR shots, it's scary but probably worse in places like South Africa and such.
It's very hard to shoot down a helicopter anyways and the most you can really do is puncture the fuel tank with small arms, Vietnam pilots used to call them the golden BB but they had AK rounds coming in by the thousands. They had some cheesy saying like "You can run, but you can't hide... from the FLIR"
WTF are you talking about 'shooting at helicopters', did you just pull that fact out of nowhere or make it up? The only one I can think of is that footage last year of the Rio de Janiero of where the gangs shot down an actual helicopter.
I don't know how fantasy comments get modded up and hard hitting facts like "I hear..."
You mean like the stupid people who shine lasers at the police helicopters/jetliners and get charged with it all the time. You mean like they do in Compton, CA by shooting at helicopters and get tracked down, they arrest them. Maybe back in the 80's this happened, but even the dumbest criminal knows not to fire because they have a constant rolling recording video and will track you down.
You gotta be stupid to shoot at a police helicopter because it is not hard to ignore a bright flash on the ground and have units surrounding that location or a neighbor calling 911 saying "hey my schizophrenic neighbor who thinks the government is taking over is shooting at helicopters".
Shooting at helicopters, ok whatever you like to make up in your fantasy mind but please show me this 'sport' of shooting at helicopters is so popular with some links or something. Also what is a burning tire gonna do besides bring the police down and extinguish it with 2 seconds, they'll just post up in the area and arrest the fool trying to light the tire again.
Also you are an asshole if you like to fire your gun into the air at aircraft, think of where those bullets come back down to some little girls head or some innocent people. I remember after New Years in the early 90's every year in Los Angeles my dad would send me up to the roof with a broom to brush off all the shells that landed there. They setup a system now where they can triangulate the exact position where a bullet was fired from in that LA county neighborhood now where the business was. Being a responsible gun owner does not include shooting at helicopters, people who are mentally ill who shoot at helicopters usually lose their gun license. If I saw some guy firing a gun into the air at aircraft, I would think he would be shot.
Your name is perfect for your comment, 'Are you kidding me'
Yeah maybe I should have worded it better but I was more trying to fend off the people who would attack the idea of UAV's.
If the privacy argument comes down to 'people sunbathing naked on their rooftops' than that is a pretty weak crutch of an excuse. I would think more along the lines of a person who has an outside shower in their backyard, but we are playing a really dumb numbers game if you want to play that. The footage they shoot has to be reviewed by others and supervisors, I would think they could be professional about it. Also everyone knows there is no sunshine in the UK, so that would be like saying I am going out to the desert for a swim. Just kidding, the UK is a beautiful place...
How exactly are they deceiving, they laid out all the facts of what they are going to use this for; traffic, burglary(?),theft from cash machines, preventing theft of tractors and monitoring antisocial driving' I don't know what the difference is between you hearing a helicopter above and not hearing a UAV; whether that has to do with privacy I don't really see the connection or why they owe it to you to vocally/visually heard.
Define 'abuse' Especially from an altitude of 1000' feet in the air. Just saying that the altitude they are restricted to would actually be more prohibitive to their abilities.
Exactly what the difference between using these UAV's and the helicopters that they have already been flying for over a decade, these helicopters have long had the ability to do infrared/night vision. So don't act shocked. Also I see a couple references to 1984 and some fear mongering about it "peering into the windows in my home"; well that is simply fear mongering and don't stress yourself out mentally over it.
These UAV's fly at a certain elevation like they do in America they have to register with their equivalent of the FCC(UK Civil Aviation Authority), so it's not like these UAV's are gonna be flying down in the streets between buildings and looking at people.
If anything I would think this would be a money saver from having to pay 2 pilots six figures and heavy maintenance with a regular helicopter.
You say the word 'UAV' and there is a knee jerk reaction around here to yell about privacy and 1984 for some reason.
Anyways here's a decent link to actually look at what the UAV might look like, although they might scale it down for police use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_HERTI
Better yet, you can signup for a Google Voice(Beta) account and route all the calls you want to where you want them to go.
A lot of phones these days with GPS have software where if you send it a text message it will respond with its GPS coordinates or you can lock down the phone, I know some guy who did this with some of his expensive construction equiptment when he didn't want to buy a LoJack system. I use the Android app 'Mobile Defense' and have found my phone once when I left it at a restaurant.
Yeah no doubt, especially the French for their quick response time as they had some of the first crews on the ground. But not much can be done until the U.S. military brings in the heavy hardware and they are the ones who have great majority of C-17's to transport cranes, generators, water purification, etc..
Americans get a lot of crap around here and they seem to dwell on the bad news a lot around here, it just needs to be put into perspective that the U.S.A.F and Navy are the ones who will be doing the heavy hauling. Army Core of Engineers and Seabees will have that place turned into a full operation within no time, military can do some things right and efficient besides killing. Although if they don't get some security in there soon it is going to be anarchy and Haitian gangs are not known to be polite with their machetes.
I think some of the other countries were a little in over their heads when they started overloading the airport with planes and only when they unloaded the rescue crews did they realize there was no fuel and anymore space to land aircraft. What makes it worse is they have to literally reshuffle around everything to accomidate the U.S. Air Forces C-17's to bring in fuel and heavy lifting cranes.
I know for a fact they delayed one of the top teams in the world here the Los Angeles County emergency response team, about 12 hours was wasted waiting on the ground before they could get some of the best equipment in the world to deal with collapsed buildings and vital supplies. The entire Orange County response team is also on wait and it is just so painful to see all this equipment that should be in there helping.
Painful though to watch as some errors are being made and thousands of lives are being lost because of it, the critical 72hr period is what they always tell us.
At times like these it really makes you proud to be an American to see the great amount of donations going out even in this terrible economy and good to see people have sympathy for others.
Donations by private Americans a lot of the time donate more than a lot of countries combined but make sure you donate to a reputable charity because online fraud is at an all time high after incidents like these.
I have two family members who are R.N.'s and a neighbor on wait with the Orange County, CA disaster team, cash is one of the best things you can donate because it costs so much to transport the material.
UPS is shipping anything for free under 50lbs $4 million so far donated to the Salvation Army by text $8 million donated to the state department by text and now I am sure the Red Cross will step it up with this
click.....*freeze*..... click! click!click!; ohhhh it catches up finally.
Damn processor on these devices cannot keep up sometimes, so you have to literally time it right so you don't get it all backed up. The App 'A better Keyboard' seems to actually stretch the missing blank sides in the middle of the keyboard.
Yeah, except in European football they have logos all over and the players wear the giant logos on the shirt. So no wonder there are not as many ads, the players are 'running ads'. I wouldn't like it if they started stamping ads on players in the sport or had giant banners running along the field.
I don't really ever hear anybody complain about ads during sports or at the bar, it is a weird behavior nobody does or gets bothered by.
Ummmm I don't think they just shoot it with a gun and heat. Munitions are not good to use on an object in a closed residential environment, shrapnel and ricochets are never a good thing.
They blast it with a high amount pressure of water to eliminate it from detonating and short out any electronics. Speaking from experience from what I have seen in the LAPD Bomb Squad's unit, they recently just upgraded all their equiptment and have the latest stuff. Israel is ahead of a lot of things like UAV and robotics for dealing with threats than a lot of other countries, they export a lot of their UAV business to other countries like Russia.
Most of the times at checkpoints they have these large security points that are reinforced and closed off to bomb attack. I don't know about the chemical attack, that is just playing up a hypothetical too much.
Most people don't even realize that there was an even bigger car bomb than the one that went off in Oklahoma City, the one in West LA in front of the IRS building but luckily it didn't go off. LAPD - Bomb Squad Forklift http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5K_VcHKF2k
But hey this is the kind of crap Israel has to deal with and just last week there was an incident of some girl who just randomly stabbed some Israeli security officer out of nowhere as she tried to come over for medical help.
As a Long Beach, CA resident I can tell you to go there just to see the Spruce Goose. Bastards took it from the Queen Mary down here, but it deserves to be there. The Spruce Goose was no assembly line product, I remember standing in awe of the thing when they had it back in Long Beach and it was so beautifully lit up. Wish I could have been there to see its maiden flight though, as short as Hughes made it.
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That's right the guy who got caught with the performance enhancing drugs during the Tour de France had a warrant issued for him today for hacking. I don't know what it is over but maybe his attempts to tamper with the committee who tested him maybe. I don't know all the info but I just saw it on the news channel.
Nevermind here it is
France Issues Arrest Warrant for Cyclist Floyd Landis
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/sports/cycling/16landis.html
PARIS — The United States cyclist Floyd Landis was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs, but the fallout from his doping case has lingered.
Thomas Cassuto, a French judge, issued an arrest warrant for Landis last month, in connection with a computer hacking case, said Astrid Granoux, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, which is handling the matter.
“That means he would be arrested if he came to France,” Granoux said Monday, adding that the warrant had not been distributed outside of French territory.
Landis, who raced for the Ouch Pro Cycling Team last year, parted ways with the team last fall. He could not be reached for comment Monday.
Cassuto is seeking to question Landis about the data hacking that occurred in the fall of 2006 at the Châtenay-Malabry antidoping lab, which is the facility that conducted the tests on Landis’s urine samples from the 2006 Tour.
A very public dispute between Landis and the lab’s officials was the crux of Landis’s defense in his doping case, which ended in his being barred from the sport for two years. Landis and his defense team had alleged that the lab’s testing procedures were sloppy, so its test results could not be trusted.
Pierre Bordry, the lab’s director, said a security breach of the facility’s computers occurred because hackers wanted to obtain data to discredit its scientists. He said that some of the stolen data had been altered to make it seem as if the lab had made errors.
In November 2006, lab officials filed a formal complaint saying that its computer data had been stolen and used in Landis’s defense. That confidential data was also sent to other labs and news media, officials said. A subsequent search of the lab’s computers turned up a Trojan horse, which is a program that allowed an outsider to remotely download files.
Investigators concluded that the program could have originated from an e-mail message sent to the lab from a computer using the same Internet protocol address as Arnie Baker, Landis’s coach.
Landis and Baker, who continue to insist that Landis did not use performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour, deny being involved in the computer hacking.
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"The only reason they're working to resolve it is because of Kevin Smith. If it was a nobody with no platform to mention this from, Slashdot would've cared much less."
Seriously did everyone not see the infamous photo of the guy hanging half way into the aisle, that is what started a lot of this.
http://animalnewyork.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/fat_guy-300x300-295x295.jpg
"Microsoft tells us it's time to upgrade".
That might be true except for the giant period you ignored where almost everyone didn't upgrade to VIsta, funny XP gets all this praise after years of being torn apart as the most insecure OS during the Vista release and even after the excuse that Vista was bloat which Win7 came along to fix people still complain.
Win7 replaced an old copy of WinXP on an old Dell 1150 laptop and it actually runs better even though I only invested $30 for 2GB of ram at FRY's, even though I had to do a quick google search for video drivers everything else(wifi,burner,etc) worked perfectly fine.
MS used to always be great at the compatibility part and terrible at security/stability, but they have really fixed those two other voids with Vista/Win7 and the ball is in their court. Linux missed the biggest opportunity to capatilize on MS's blunder with Vista and there might never be a chance again for 15+ years considering how stable Win7 is.
Theres a better patch out
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/
"grief and hassle"
Uhh last time I updated my motherboard and a couple other components I had to call in to get my key authenticated, it was hardly that painful. A lot of exaggeration about phone support around here, it can do a lot of good for your OS when people cannot even get on to a forum for help.
It is not painful to call MS and get a new key, I did it under 10 minutes a couple times when switching around Motherboards.
1.Phone in and enter your product key using the pad or read it to operator
2.Operator - "is this the only computer you will be using it on"
3.Me: "yes"
4.Operator: "ok I am going to read out your key and enter it as I say"
5.Me: "Ok its activated"
6.Operator: "thank you, come again..."
That's not painful at all and if you think that is bad than I don't really think that reflects the market/peoples opinion. On what planet do you spend most of your time on?
What is with exaggerating things around here with Windows Activation?
Obviously the false positives only get news on Slashdot and nowhere else or on the major news, get over it and accept it is a decent system. People have been predicting that even on XP WGA would be the demise of it and customers would never tolerate the false positives.
'False Positive' articles and the most random probabilities seem to happen to get modded up, such crap as "there must be some pirate out there using somebody else's legitimate key". *think of the children*(or the super small minority)
I don't even know where to start with the calculations and odds of such a thing happening, if you all of a sudden freak out like people at Slashdot do and try to concentrate all your development on this one little random problem you would have a bankrupt business.
If you haven't used Google Sky Maps yet it is the best tool to visually point out where stars are, combine that with a telescope and you'll fly through the sky in no time.
You just hold the phone up to the stars and it shows you a perfect image view per view of what youre looking at, pointing out which stars are what and you can choose the level of detail.
I know I always had a problem when younger and people saying "see that star..." and me "you mean that one around the other thousand".
This tool is so great and I am sure one of your students has a Android device, the app is FREE.
Than they'll just start scratching it, they're scumbags.
A lot of the tagging going on now is cheap crap you scratch into a surface with a flathead or something.
Yeah maybe back in the days 80's/90's but video surveillance/recording has improved vastly and infrared/night vision will make a shooter stand out like a sore thumb. It happens every couple years in the news of a chopper being brought down
Search for some old Youtube footage of things like 'British IRA shooter caught on camera' and find some interesting footage of what they successfully did in the past with helicopters with out the shooters even knowing they were there.
Guy I used to work under in construction used to be a former Long Beach Police Officer by the name of Glenn and he was learning how to fly R-22 choppers and he would chat it up with the local Police Chopper pilots; well he used to bring in some crazy stories of watching as drive bye shootings would happen and this car would all of a sudden look like it was spraying sparks out its windows.
Youtube is just filled with Police Helicopter FLIR shots, it's scary but probably worse in places like South Africa and such.
It's very hard to shoot down a helicopter anyways and the most you can really do is puncture the fuel tank with small arms, Vietnam pilots used to call them the golden BB but they had AK rounds coming in by the thousands.
They had some cheesy saying like "You can run, but you can't hide... from the FLIR"
WTF are you talking about 'shooting at helicopters', did you just pull that fact out of nowhere or make it up?
The only one I can think of is that footage last year of the Rio de Janiero of where the gangs shot down an actual helicopter.
I don't know how fantasy comments get modded up and hard hitting facts like "I hear..."
You mean like the stupid people who shine lasers at the police helicopters/jetliners and get charged with it all the time.
You mean like they do in Compton, CA by shooting at helicopters and get tracked down, they arrest them. Maybe back in the 80's this happened, but even the dumbest criminal knows not to fire because they have a constant rolling recording video and will track you down.
You gotta be stupid to shoot at a police helicopter because it is not hard to ignore a bright flash on the ground and have units surrounding that location or a neighbor calling 911 saying "hey my schizophrenic neighbor who thinks the government is taking over is shooting at helicopters".
Shooting at helicopters, ok whatever you like to make up in your fantasy mind but please show me this 'sport' of shooting at helicopters is so popular with some links or something. Also what is a burning tire gonna do besides bring the police down and extinguish it with 2 seconds, they'll just post up in the area and arrest the fool trying to light the tire again.
Also you are an asshole if you like to fire your gun into the air at aircraft, think of where those bullets come back down to some little girls head or some innocent people. I remember after New Years in the early 90's every year in Los Angeles my dad would send me up to the roof with a broom to brush off all the shells that landed there. They setup a system now where they can triangulate the exact position where a bullet was fired from in that LA county neighborhood now where the business was.
Being a responsible gun owner does not include shooting at helicopters, people who are mentally ill who shoot at helicopters usually lose their gun license. If I saw some guy firing a gun into the air at aircraft, I would think he would be shot.
Your name is perfect for your comment, 'Are you kidding me'
Yeah maybe I should have worded it better but I was more trying to fend off the people who would attack the idea of UAV's.
If the privacy argument comes down to 'people sunbathing naked on their rooftops' than that is a pretty weak crutch of an excuse.
I would think more along the lines of a person who has an outside shower in their backyard, but we are playing a really dumb numbers game if you want to play that. The footage they shoot has to be reviewed by others and supervisors, I would think they could be professional about it.
Also everyone knows there is no sunshine in the UK, so that would be like saying I am going out to the desert for a swim. Just kidding, the UK is a beautiful place...
How exactly are they deceiving, they laid out all the facts of what they are going to use this for; traffic, burglary(?),theft from cash machines, preventing theft of tractors and monitoring antisocial driving'
I don't know what the difference is between you hearing a helicopter above and not hearing a UAV; whether that has to do with privacy I don't really see the connection or why they owe it to you to vocally/visually heard.
Hah you are right about pilots not making good pay
http://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Job=Helicopter_Pilot/Salary
around $35,000, but still at the end of the day the total costs and fuel have got to be ridiculous.
Define 'abuse'
Especially from an altitude of 1000' feet in the air.
Just saying that the altitude they are restricted to would actually be more prohibitive to their abilities.
Exactly what the difference between using these UAV's and the helicopters that they have already been flying for over a decade, these helicopters have long had the ability to do infrared/night vision. So don't act shocked. Also I see a couple references to 1984 and some fear mongering about it "peering into the windows in my home"; well that is simply fear mongering and don't stress yourself out mentally over it.
These UAV's fly at a certain elevation like they do in America they have to register with their equivalent of the FCC(UK Civil Aviation Authority), so it's not like these UAV's are gonna be flying down in the streets between buildings and looking at people.
If anything I would think this would be a money saver from having to pay 2 pilots six figures and heavy maintenance with a regular helicopter.
You say the word 'UAV' and there is a knee jerk reaction around here to yell about privacy and 1984 for some reason.
Anyways here's a decent link to actually look at what the UAV might look like, although they might scale it down for police use.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_HERTI
Oh yeah, I forgot to add the guy with the 'wave your hand' to start the car had an RFID chip implanted in his skin to do that.
I remember seeing an article on a DIY car starter with a cellphone, here it is.
Cell phone based car starter, another take
http://hackaday.com/2010/01/19/cell-phone-based-car-starter-another-take/
GSM car starter
http://hackaday.com/2010/01/15/gsm-car-starter/
Start the car with a wave of your hand
http://hackaday.com/2010/01/14/start-the-car-with-a-wave-of-your-hand/
Better yet, you can signup for a Google Voice(Beta) account and route all the calls you want to where you want them to go.
A lot of phones these days with GPS have software where if you send it a text message it will respond with its GPS coordinates or you can lock down the phone, I know some guy who did this with some of his expensive construction equiptment when he didn't want to buy a LoJack system. I use the Android app 'Mobile Defense' and have found my phone once when I left it at a restaurant.
Hopefully the odds are a little better this time around, NASA disappointed so many hungry people last time.
Yeah no doubt, especially the French for their quick response time as they had some of the first crews on the ground. But not much can be done until the U.S. military brings in the heavy hardware and they are the ones who have great majority of C-17's to transport cranes, generators, water purification, etc..
Americans get a lot of crap around here and they seem to dwell on the bad news a lot around here, it just needs to be put into perspective that the U.S.A.F and Navy are the ones who will be doing the heavy hauling.
Army Core of Engineers and Seabees will have that place turned into a full operation within no time, military can do some things right and efficient besides killing. Although if they don't get some security in there soon it is going to be anarchy and Haitian gangs are not known to be polite with their machetes.
I think some of the other countries were a little in over their heads when they started overloading the airport with planes and only when they unloaded the rescue crews did they realize there was no fuel and anymore space to land aircraft. What makes it worse is they have to literally reshuffle around everything to accomidate the U.S. Air Forces C-17's to bring in fuel and heavy lifting cranes.
I know for a fact they delayed one of the top teams in the world here the Los Angeles County emergency response team, about 12 hours was wasted waiting on the ground before they could get some of the best equipment in the world to deal with collapsed buildings and vital supplies. The entire Orange County response team is also on wait and it is just so painful to see all this equipment that should be in there helping.
Painful though to watch as some errors are being made and thousands of lives are being lost because of it, the critical 72hr period is what they always tell us.
At times like these it really makes you proud to be an American to see the great amount of donations going out even in this terrible economy and good to see people have sympathy for others.
Donations by private Americans a lot of the time donate more than a lot of countries combined but make sure you donate to a reputable charity because online fraud is at an all time high after incidents like these.
I have two family members who are R.N.'s and a neighbor on wait with the Orange County, CA disaster team, cash is one of the best things you can donate because it costs so much to transport the material.
UPS is shipping anything for free under 50lbs
$4 million so far donated to the Salvation Army by text
$8 million donated to the state department by text
and now I am sure the Red Cross will step it up with this
click.....*freeze*..... click! click!click!; ohhhh it catches up finally.
Damn processor on these devices cannot keep up sometimes, so you have to literally time it right so you don't get it all backed up.
The App 'A better Keyboard' seems to actually stretch the missing blank sides in the middle of the keyboard.
Yeah, except in European football they have logos all over and the players wear the giant logos on the shirt. So no wonder there are not as many ads, the players are 'running ads'. I wouldn't like it if they started stamping ads on players in the sport or had giant banners running along the field.
I don't really ever hear anybody complain about ads during sports or at the bar, it is a weird behavior nobody does or gets bothered by.
The Jewish people are bitter because they didn't patent this.
Patent no 0000004, right after water, food and shelter.
Ummmm I don't think they just shoot it with a gun and heat. Munitions are not good to use on an object in a closed residential environment, shrapnel and ricochets are never a good thing.
They blast it with a high amount pressure of water to eliminate it from detonating and short out any electronics.
Speaking from experience from what I have seen in the LAPD Bomb Squad's unit, they recently just upgraded all their equiptment and have the latest stuff. Israel is ahead of a lot of things like UAV and robotics for dealing with threats than a lot of other countries, they export a lot of their UAV business to other countries like Russia.
Most of the times at checkpoints they have these large security points that are reinforced and closed off to bomb attack. I don't know about the chemical attack, that is just playing up a hypothetical too much.
Most people don't even realize that there was an even bigger car bomb than the one that went off in Oklahoma City, the one in West LA in front of the IRS building but luckily it didn't go off.
LAPD - Bomb Squad Forklift
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5K_VcHKF2k
But hey this is the kind of crap Israel has to deal with and just last week there was an incident of some girl who just randomly stabbed some Israeli security officer out of nowhere as she tried to come over for medical help.
Israeli security guard stabbed by moslem girl on checkpoint
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJx5XWldJSU
Well we seem to enjoy their Intel chips in our computers and the other of hundreds of companies that produce stuff out of there
Yeah, it happens all the time around the world daily so nothing new and just go on with your lives.
People have no idea how many calls the LAPD Bomb Squad go on a year, at least 2-3 a day
As a Long Beach, CA resident I can tell you to go there just to see the Spruce Goose. Bastards took it from the Queen Mary down here, but it deserves to be there.
The Spruce Goose was no assembly line product, I remember standing in awe of the thing when they had it back in Long Beach and it was so beautifully lit up. Wish I could have been there to see its maiden flight though, as short as Hughes made it.
No not really, they had all come over after the Soviets had left them high and dry as a used missile platform.
Blacks only make up 10% of the population, so I don't know where you are going with that argument besides racism is everywhere in the world.
Point still stands, Fidel would kick out all the people that disagree with him.
They still keep flooding into America to this day because America is a great country.