simply because you cannot conceive of it happening doesn't entail it cannot happen. The fact remains, the secretary said it is isn't proven, it won't be bought.
You might have listened to what the Secretary of DoD actually said, (1) the deployments are scheduled until 2017 at the earliest, and (2) only if they are proven to work.
Nope, they are threatening to send Jimmy Carter in search of Nobel Peace Prize to talk to the Dear Shrimp.
Dear Shrimp: They are sending who? Lacky: Jimmy Carter. Dear Shrimp: Noooooooooo!!!! That's hitting below the belt. Lacky: It is likely he will be talking out of his ass again.
China voted for the U.N. sanctions today. So apparently they are okay with at some messing. NK pissing in the oatmeal with their nukes means SK and Japan might decide they need nukes as well. The Chinese do not want to see that because it make it more difficult to swing their dicks around the S. China sea, now that they have claimed all of it.
I wouldn't count on the N. Koreans somehow dropping their weapons from low morale. NK is much more anal about internal brainwashing than Saddam ever was, and they have been at it far longer. So not only are their soldiers indoctrinated, their father's were similarly indoctrinated, and also their grandfathers. Also, a large part of Iraq's army was Shi'ite, and they were never going to fight for Saddam.
And you have to figure that NK will also do to their soldiers as Stalin did to his, i.e., put an army behind them to encourage them not to run.
While I agree we need evidence to accuse MS. However, this is MS. Given their history of being a lying sneak thief, I think we are correct to be doubtful they are not to be trusted.
Actually, water vapour is a greenhouse gas. Dunno how much it contributes to keeping us warm. With no greenhouse gases, we'd all be cadging nickels for ice skates on the bank of the river Styx.
Mosquitoes have their role in the food chain. Killing off an entire species isn't a particularly good idea since we understand so little about what linkages are necessary.
Well, I think a more saner way would be to fire some astronauts up close enough and feed them a lot of beans. We can fund a fart cannon to connect up to their hineys. As an added benefit, we can substitute it for a rail gun here on Earth.
Iranian General: What the hell happened (fire, destruction, troops fleeing in terror)?
Iranian Colonel: Sir, they have resorted to Weapons of Mass Ejection?
Iranian General: You don't mean...they wouldn't...that's below the belt.
Iranian Colonel: That's exactly where we think they fired from, Sir.
And any reasonable size rock spinning as they tend to do will wind up your cable like a yo-yo and your rocket will have a short but very exciting life.
Oracle cannot dismiss the damned plugin altogether, they have too much that relies on it, Oracle Forms for one. I'm unsure how that relates to their databases. Are they storing mobile code in their databases for use in their OF crap? OF seems particularly brain dead and I wouldn't mind them blowing it away and replacing it with native apps...but then they'd probably only produce them for MS's rinky-dink OS or Linux which doesn't have much use on the desktop.
And who writes their whole program in using just their own code? We have massive C libraries because we cannot reinvent the wheel every time. And it isn't possible to exhaustively check the code in those libraries due to time constraints and sheer complexity.
Yep, it turns out that a lot of military spending mirrors the rest of government spending, it gets sucked up in mandatory spending like pensions for service members, health care, etc. They cannot arbitrarily rewrite contracts either. So the amount they can actually cut gets concentrated on things they can control immediately like training, salaries, etc. That's why the cuts appear out of proportion to the total percentage cuts.
That's only because you are looking at the budget as one giant gooey mess. It isn't. They hit discretionary spending, something that isn't driving the debt. They already took a chunk out of DoD last year for 10 years. Now that isn't enough for them. And it is a stupid way to cut spending. Cutting money for things like research and Head Start and NiH is just plain dumb.
That isn't true. DoD and other employees of the federal government will be furloughed. In DoD, that represents 1/5 of their salary going bye-bye from Apr-Sept.
How is that not a tax increase to government employees?
And this was never about budget reduction. It was always about Republicans objecting to EPA, NiH, OSHA, Head Start, etc. They simply believe government shouldn't be doing those things. Democrats are just as much to blame since they refuse to touch the real drivers of the debt, entitlements.
Hmmm...so you're saying that Obama got out of Iraq and is running away from Afghanistan so he can cue up the U.S. military for a go at Iran..and after forcing through a first round of budget cuts on the U.S. military and likely another round shortly? That sneak!! I just knew he was a war monger at heart. Him and Nancy Pelosi.
So are the Gulf states urging the U.S. to fuck Iran before Iran fucks them. That's probably a bigger influence on the U.S. given that the world economy still runs on oil. Hell, the Saudis see an Iranian behind every grain of sand.
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simply because you cannot conceive of it happening doesn't entail it cannot happen. The fact remains, the secretary said it is isn't proven, it won't be bought.
Just flash an image of goatse into the cameras' eyes. That'll put a quick end to this silliness.
You might have listened to what the Secretary of DoD actually said, (1) the deployments are scheduled until 2017 at the earliest, and (2) only if they are proven to work.
Now go take the little blue pills this time.
Except for the mountains of back end Java code which happily works just fine, surely you knew this, yes?
Wow, you really don't get the internet, do you?
Yep, Putin is an enlightened leader who is not concerned with putting the USSR back together again. He's convinced he'll succeed.
Nope, they are threatening to send Jimmy Carter in search of Nobel Peace Prize to talk to the Dear Shrimp.
Dear Shrimp: They are sending who?
Lacky: Jimmy Carter.
Dear Shrimp: Noooooooooo!!!! That's hitting below the belt.
Lacky: It is likely he will be talking out of his ass again.
China voted for the U.N. sanctions today. So apparently they are okay with at some messing. NK pissing in the oatmeal with their nukes means SK and Japan might decide they need nukes as well. The Chinese do not want to see that because it make it more difficult to swing their dicks around the S. China sea, now that they have claimed all of it.
I wouldn't count on the N. Koreans somehow dropping their weapons from low morale. NK is much more anal about internal brainwashing than Saddam ever was, and they have been at it far longer. So not only are their soldiers indoctrinated, their father's were similarly indoctrinated, and also their grandfathers. Also, a large part of Iraq's army was Shi'ite, and they were never going to fight for Saddam.
And you have to figure that NK will also do to their soldiers as Stalin did to his, i.e., put an army behind them to encourage them not to run.
Hear, hear!!! The Universe just isn't fair. Who do we talk to about this?
While I agree we need evidence to accuse MS. However, this is MS. Given their history of being a lying sneak thief, I think we are correct to be doubtful they are not to be trusted.
Actually, water vapour is a greenhouse gas. Dunno how much it contributes to keeping us warm. With no greenhouse gases, we'd all be cadging nickels for ice skates on the bank of the river Styx.
Mosquitoes have their role in the food chain. Killing off an entire species isn't a particularly good idea since we understand so little about what linkages are necessary.
Well, I think a more saner way would be to fire some astronauts up close enough and feed them a lot of beans. We can fund a fart cannon to connect up to their hineys. As an added benefit, we can substitute it for a rail gun here on Earth.
Iranian General: What the hell happened (fire, destruction, troops fleeing in terror)?
Iranian Colonel: Sir, they have resorted to Weapons of Mass Ejection?
Iranian General: You don't mean...they wouldn't...that's below the belt.
Iranian Colonel: That's exactly where we think they fired from, Sir.
And any reasonable size rock spinning as they tend to do will wind up your cable like a yo-yo and your rocket will have a short but very exciting life.
Any rock of large side spinning even slowly will simply drill a hole though the net. There's nothing you can do about it.
Oracle cannot dismiss the damned plugin altogether, they have too much that relies on it, Oracle Forms for one. I'm unsure how that relates to their databases. Are they storing mobile code in their databases for use in their OF crap? OF seems particularly brain dead and I wouldn't mind them blowing it away and replacing it with native apps...but then they'd probably only produce them for MS's rinky-dink OS or Linux which doesn't have much use on the desktop.
And who writes their whole program in using just their own code? We have massive C libraries because we cannot reinvent the wheel every time. And it isn't possible to exhaustively check the code in those libraries due to time constraints and sheer complexity.
Yep, it turns out that a lot of military spending mirrors the rest of government spending, it gets sucked up in mandatory spending like pensions for service members, health care, etc. They cannot arbitrarily rewrite contracts either. So the amount they can actually cut gets concentrated on things they can control immediately like training, salaries, etc. That's why the cuts appear out of proportion to the total percentage cuts.
That's only because you are looking at the budget as one giant gooey mess. It isn't. They hit discretionary spending, something that isn't driving the debt. They already took a chunk out of DoD last year for 10 years. Now that isn't enough for them. And it is a stupid way to cut spending. Cutting money for things like research and Head Start and NiH is just plain dumb.
Yep. Also, it would make more sense for government to do 2-year budgets instead of doing all the leg work every single year.
That isn't true. DoD and other employees of the federal government will be furloughed. In DoD, that represents 1/5 of their salary going bye-bye from Apr-Sept.
How is that not a tax increase to government employees?
And this was never about budget reduction. It was always about Republicans objecting to EPA, NiH, OSHA, Head Start, etc. They simply believe government shouldn't be doing those things. Democrats are just as much to blame since they refuse to touch the real drivers of the debt, entitlements.
Yep, Iran doesn't seem to have a problem helping the Alawites in Syria slaughtering the Sunnis there. Hezbollah doesn't appear to mind either.
Hmmm...so you're saying that Obama got out of Iraq and is running away from Afghanistan so he can cue up the U.S. military for a go at Iran..and after forcing through a first round of budget cuts on the U.S. military and likely another round shortly? That sneak!! I just knew he was a war monger at heart. Him and Nancy Pelosi.
So are the Gulf states urging the U.S. to fuck Iran before Iran fucks them. That's probably a bigger influence on the U.S. given that the world economy still runs on oil. Hell, the Saudis see an Iranian behind every grain of sand.