Why this gets insightful, I'll never understand. Fact's of posters case, UK citizen/journalist operating in Iraq, is shot by US soldiers/marines. Now soldiers operating in one country during a time of war, being charged and tried in civilian courts in another country goes against the laws of war. But/.'ers have an ax to grind. Trust me you wouldn't want all your former colonies charging British soldiers with the crap they've pulled over the centuries. Accept that martial courts handle these things and move on.
On the contrary diesels have massive low rev torque. Look at this graph for the torque of a 2.5 diesel against one for a 2.0 litre petrol engine. Well, not all petrol engines are created equal, thing is depending on which you prefer low end torque or a high rev limit you can change the bore and the stroke at a particular displacement to maximize one or the other. Of course it is also cheating comparing one engine that is 1.25 times the size of another.
Seems to me we had a lot of cloud cover in the northern hemisphere this summer hence cooler temperatures. Clouds don't appear to absorb infrared light. Depends on what those clouds are made of. Water vapor, yeah that does a really good job of absorbing IR as any chemist using FTIR with a faulty N2 purge will tell you.
This ruthless perspective is an overwhelmingly effective tool. Therefore, it is the truth. The rest is just supporting mythology. Oh the irony of your post. Especially your "mythology" when you mention the "soul" 3 times in your post. Pray tell, where does this "soul" of which you speak go after we leave this place?
It affects the other guys. This is Slashdot, not a marketing department or a boardroom. Let's use English instead of Marketese. Not to pick nits but shouldn't that be it effects the other guys?
Good lord, that's not even an argument. That's correct since an equitable tax code is an oxymoron. By all means, if you have a plan for an equitable tax code, then please post here at/. and allow us to bask in your brilliance.
FDR? Are you serious? FDR was probably the last great US president. He's the one who turned the US into the number 1 superpower that the neocons love so much. [Yoda voice]War does not make one great![/Yoda voice]
If in that election the other candidate was inaugurated we would not have invaded Iraq, we would have an equitable tax code, we wouldn't have a disappearing middle class, we wouldn't have a ballooning debt destined to be paid down by our grandchildren, poor people might have access to health care, our regulatory structures may have been able to stop the sub-prime mortgage crisis, and possibly, just possibly, 9/11 may not have happened. Yeah, I saw that episode of Family Guy too. In the real world though there is thing called inertia, and unless you believe Albert Gore was going to overturn NAFTA then the middle class would still be disappearing. As for an equitable tax code?Ha! Do you also believe in the tooth fairy and Santa Claus? Stop the sub prime mortgage crisis, sure Al would have told all those people buying homes,"Hey you can't afford home ownership so keep renting." Shine on, you crazy diamond.
Yup, plenty of similarities there. Why don't you list them for us? Actually it's more like the beginning of WWII only do a search and replace w/ the following changes. Germany==Russia, Czechoslovakia==Georgia and Britain/France==United States. Namely, there is little a distant power can do to stop the larger power in central/eastern Europe from gobbling up its smaller neighbors. As for the WWI analogies it is possible that Georgia(Austria-Hungary) believed it had a blank check to attack South Ossetia(Serbia) from the United States(Imperial Germany). HTH
It's not dispersion either (how clumped-together people are), Japan, the US and Canada have similar dispersions. How's that since 90% of Canada's population lives within 100 miles of the US-Canada border, and 90% of the US population doesn't live in that same strip so how exactly are US and Canadian populations clumped together in a similar fashion?
If we can wage war at no risk to ourselves, then war will become a more viable option - which is a bad development. That really all depends on one's point of view, take for example using a fleet of UAVs to deter a large country from invading his smaller neighbor without risk on one's own soldiers, it might make peacekeeping missions more palatable to the rich 1st world countries to reduce tribal conflicts in the 3rd world.
Wow, this is one problematic Mexican! This guy is like the Dr. Evil of low-wage migrant labor! Naaa, there was no mention of sharks or lasers, the poster was describing the Mexican Keyser Soze.
They are the people that decide if to take a case to the criminal court, not a civil court! Reread my previous post I wrote Civilianas opposed to a military court, since these were Soldiersin a war zone being charged with a crime.
1 W*h happens to be the same as 1 Joule, the unit of energy. Umm, no 1 Watt*second = 1 Joule, 1 Watt * 1 h(3600 s) = 3600 J, congrats you've gotten it wrong by several orders of magnitude, are you responsible for the mars lander?
They also cover 'all papers and other written documentation,' How the hell does this not violate the "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated..." part of the 4th amendment, where is the SCOTUS case that ruled that US citizens upon returning to the US borders do not enjoy the protections of the constitution?
Let's hope they never get to Scorched Earth tactics.
In the middle east, that could cause a few nasty smoke-plumes. Damn, I realize it seems like a long time but, hell it's only been 17 years since the end of Desert Storm and by the way get off my lawn.
Do you want them to go to be extradited to military courts in Iraq with British prosecutors? Yeah, I thought so. We are talking about extradition being one sided. Please stick to the topic and stop trolling. No, I believe the Uniform Code of Military Justice was designed to handle such matters, therefore extradition in this case would not be warranted. And apparently you didn't think, otherwise you wouldn't have made the knee-jerk, "Please stick to the topic and stop trolling," comment, but hey it's the internet so feel free to accuse others of being trolls when they ask substantive questions and disagree with you.
You know, defending the man at this point is pretty much an admission that not only did you vote for him, twice, but you are too proud to admit you screwed up.
This Nietzsche quote seems apt, "At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."
Just when has the US refused to extradite a suspect to the UK say in the last ten years?
Very recently actually. When British journalist Terry Lloyd was shot by US forces in Iraq, the US refused to cooperate or extradite any troops to face trial here.
Why would US troops operating in Iraq, goto trial in the UK?Civilian court no less?
Gore isn't saying everyone needs to cut their energy consumption down to zero, he's saying people need to make an effort to be carbon-neutral, and he's making that effort himself. By flying on a private plane to do so, but it's ok b/c Gore is rich and can afford indulgences^H^H^H^H^H err, offsetting carbon credits.
Ugh, that just reminds me of Verizon's in-movie 'advertising' during Ironman. You mean there was a Verizon phone in that Audi commercial? All kidding aside, I enjoyed that film.
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Why this gets insightful, I'll never understand. Fact's of posters case, UK citizen/journalist operating in Iraq, is shot by US soldiers/marines. Now soldiers operating in one country during a time of war, being charged and tried in civilian courts in another country goes against the laws of war. But /.'ers have an ax to grind. Trust me you wouldn't want all your former colonies charging British soldiers with the crap they've pulled over the centuries. Accept that martial courts handle these things and move on.
On the contrary diesels have massive low rev torque. Look at this graph for the torque of a 2.5 diesel against one for a 2.0 litre petrol engine.
Well, not all petrol engines are created equal, thing is depending on which you prefer low end torque or a high rev limit you can change the bore and the stroke at a particular displacement to maximize one or the other. Of course it is also cheating comparing one engine that is 1.25 times the size of another.
Seems to me we had a lot of cloud cover in the northern hemisphere this summer hence cooler temperatures. Clouds don't appear to absorb infrared light.
Depends on what those clouds are made of. Water vapor, yeah that does a really good job of absorbing IR as any chemist using FTIR with a faulty N2 purge will tell you.
This ruthless perspective is an overwhelmingly effective tool. Therefore, it is the truth. The rest is just supporting mythology.
Oh the irony of your post. Especially your "mythology" when you mention the "soul" 3 times in your post. Pray tell, where does this "soul" of which you speak go after we leave this place?
Your erection has a very active imagination.
It needs to, it makes all his decisions.
It affects the other guys. This is Slashdot, not a marketing department or a boardroom. Let's use English instead of Marketese.
Not to pick nits but shouldn't that be it effects the other guys?
Good lord, that's not even an argument. /. and allow us to bask in your brilliance.
That's correct since an equitable tax code is an oxymoron. By all means, if you have a plan for an equitable tax code, then please post here at
FDR? Are you serious? FDR was probably the last great US president. He's the one who turned the US into the number 1 superpower that the neocons love so much.
[Yoda voice]War does not make one great![/Yoda voice]
If in that election the other candidate was inaugurated we would not have invaded Iraq, we would have an equitable tax code, we wouldn't have a disappearing middle class, we wouldn't have a ballooning debt destined to be paid down by our grandchildren, poor people might have access to health care, our regulatory structures may have been able to stop the sub-prime mortgage crisis, and possibly, just possibly, 9/11 may not have happened.
Yeah, I saw that episode of Family Guy too. In the real world though there is thing called inertia, and unless you believe Albert Gore was going to overturn NAFTA then the middle class would still be disappearing. As for an equitable tax code?Ha! Do you also believe in the tooth fairy and Santa Claus? Stop the sub prime mortgage crisis, sure Al would have told all those people buying homes,"Hey you can't afford home ownership so keep renting." Shine on, you crazy diamond.
Yup, plenty of similarities there. Why don't you list them for us?
Actually it's more like the beginning of WWII only do a search and replace w/ the following changes. Germany==Russia, Czechoslovakia==Georgia and Britain/France==United States. Namely, there is little a distant power can do to stop the larger power in central/eastern Europe from gobbling up its smaller neighbors. As for the WWI analogies it is possible that Georgia(Austria-Hungary) believed it had a blank check to attack South Ossetia(Serbia) from the United States(Imperial Germany). HTH
It's not dispersion either (how clumped-together people are), Japan, the US and Canada have similar dispersions.
How's that since 90% of Canada's population lives within 100 miles of the US-Canada border, and 90% of the US population doesn't live in that same strip so how exactly are US and Canadian populations clumped together in a similar fashion?
If we can wage war at no risk to ourselves, then war will become a more viable option - which is a bad development.
That really all depends on one's point of view, take for example using a fleet of UAVs to deter a large country from invading his smaller neighbor without risk on one's own soldiers, it might make peacekeeping missions more palatable to the rich 1st world countries to reduce tribal conflicts in the 3rd world.
This I'm not a liberal, I'm some form of radical. makes this statment
I don't expect to have a meaningful conversation with you redundant.
Wow, this is one problematic Mexican! This guy is like the Dr. Evil of low-wage migrant labor!
Naaa, there was no mention of sharks or lasers, the poster was describing the Mexican Keyser Soze.
They are the people that decide if to take a case to the criminal court, not a civil court!
Reread my previous post I wrote Civilianas opposed to a military court, since these were Soldiersin a war zone being charged with a crime.
1 W*h happens to be the same as 1 Joule, the unit of energy.
Umm, no 1 Watt*second = 1 Joule, 1 Watt * 1 h(3600 s) = 3600 J, congrats you've gotten it wrong by several orders of magnitude, are you responsible for the mars lander?
They also cover 'all papers and other written documentation,'
How the hell does this not violate the "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated..." part of the 4th amendment, where is the SCOTUS case that ruled that US citizens upon returning to the US borders do not enjoy the protections of the constitution?
Let's hope they never get to Scorched Earth tactics. In the middle east, that could cause a few nasty smoke-plumes.
Damn, I realize it seems like a long time but, hell it's only been 17 years since the end of Desert Storm and by the way get off my lawn.
There's also the failed Space Preservation Act.
Which is about as relevant as the Articles of Confederation
Do you want them to go to be extradited to military courts in Iraq with British prosecutors? Yeah, I thought so. We are talking about extradition being one sided. Please stick to the topic and stop trolling.
No, I believe the Uniform Code of Military Justice was designed to handle such matters, therefore extradition in this case would not be warranted. And apparently you didn't think, otherwise you wouldn't have made the knee-jerk, "Please stick to the topic and stop trolling," comment, but hey it's the internet so feel free to accuse others of being trolls when they ask substantive questions and disagree with you.
You know, defending the man at this point is pretty much an admission that not only did you vote for him, twice, but you are too proud to admit you screwed up.
This Nietzsche quote seems apt, "At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."
Just when has the US refused to extradite a suspect to the UK say in the last ten years?
Very recently actually. When British journalist Terry Lloyd was shot by US forces in Iraq, the US refused to cooperate or extradite any troops to face trial here.
Why would US troops operating in Iraq, goto trial in the UK?Civilian court no less?
"It is also not, to put it bluntly, a jet.
Actually looks more like the old Cobra "Trouble Bubble" from the mid80's than a proper jet pack.
Gore isn't saying everyone needs to cut their energy consumption down to zero, he's saying people need to make an effort to be carbon-neutral, and he's making that effort himself.
By flying on a private plane to do so, but it's ok b/c Gore is rich and can afford indulgences^H^H^H^H^H err, offsetting carbon credits.
Ugh, that just reminds me of Verizon's in-movie 'advertising' during Ironman.
You mean there was a Verizon phone in that Audi commercial? All kidding aside, I enjoyed that film.