Thank you for the links. They were informative, though I must regard the first as highly dubious--only because I'm unfamiliar with any of the sources' credibility.
I'm curious though why this uranium hasn't crossed my ears yet while reports (like tfa) that little worthy of WMDs have been found. My unfounded suspicion is that the uranium your article speaks of is of a quality that excludes the potential for being turned into a weapon. (excluding depleted uranium shells, which are useful for their heaviness, not radioactivity). I really don't know though.
The centrifuge as well is hardly damning evidence.. you could accuse 13-year-old-me of a lot for having the anarchist's cookbook, by that logic. Further, is the centrifuge essential to (or indicative of) making atomic weapons? that specific connection was never made--there is no mention of weapons in the article. Lastly, the newsmax link specifically states all highly enriched uranium was exported from Iraq in 1992, and the 2 tons you spoke of was unrefined and low-grade. Quoting from 1 link deep from your atoomspianage.com link at world-nuclear.org: "Some reactors, for example the Canadian-designed Candu and the British Magnox reactors, use natural uranium as their fuel. Most present day reactors (Light Water Reactors or LWRs) use enriched uranium where the proportion of the U-235 isotope has been increased from 0.7% to about 3 or up to 5%. (For comparison, uranium used for nuclear weapons would have to be enriched in plants specially designed to produce at least 90% U-235.)"
I'm not spitting on your face, only trying to exhibit a little due dilligence in understanding the situation. I'm sorry liberal reactionaries have distanced you from thinking liberals.
It depends. Entering into WWII was a situation where we created a lot of production and jobs that weren't there before. Post-WWII, few American wars have been at the behest of the hearts of the American people, but instead, at least in part, to legitimize the continuance of the military industry birthed for WWII. Sadly, a healthy chunk of our economy still depends on a need for war, or at least military actions. Death is big business, and we as a country are an addict to it, economically and perhaps even psychologically.
which came first, the chicken or the egg? the church used art like the riaa uses artists and the nba uses basketball players. sure, basketball and music came first and exist independantly outside of the nba and published music, but the institutions are where the masses attention has always been, and it's that mass-attention that weilds a lot of power. the players fight for more pay from the nba, not the other way around, the record companies farm for artists, not the other way around, and the church sponsored art.
It's a bidirectional, but NOT EQUAL relationship. The church USED art and writing, not the other way around.
"Turn so happily to it?" Perhaps you've misread me.. though I defend a church's right to adorurn itself, and give historical credit where is due, that does not mean I agree with all of its' policies. And further, my explanation was not limited to the catholic church--it's true for any religion I can think of.
I don't know what subversion you're speaking of--I've never heard of painters whipped into painting for religion. The word is patronage, and like another poster said, is largely tied to the church's position of power rather than any merits in religion. Patronage is important.. many many artists get their practice and paycheck putting their art to someone else's desires rather than any internal muse. Deny patronage and you deny the market for art, making it all the harder to be an artist. The curch was as subverting to michelangelo as kelloggs is to the guy who says "it's gr-r-r-reat!!!".
Oh absolutely, enter the curch's motives into the equation and they can fall from grace, so to speak. Still the fact remains that they WERE patrons though much of written history. Getting back to specifics as well: each church's congregations seem pleased with the work, it keeps the craft-artisans employed if not keeping the whole art from dying out.
I don't think it's any more right to fault a church for doing so as it is to fault me for drinking--each do enough good, allow some frivolity.
tfa seems like good advice. i've known people to whom a regular schedule came naturally, and i envy them to some degree.
i've never felt right getting up before 10, and i've always wanted to stay up late. --ALL-- my life, but admittedly, less so lately as i'm approaching late 20s and for the most part have a daily routine.
i dream one day we'll put rockets in the earth and slow the rotation so that we get 36 hour days. 12 work, 12 play, 12 sleep, THAT would come naturally to me. 8 of each just isn't enough in one day.
ahhhh geez, that art is in a large sense communal.
spurn the church's patronage of art and you spurn michelangelo, donatello, and all the rest of the ninja turtles. seriously, people forget that though science and society seems to have outgrown the need for dogma, the church through history propped up the infant institutions of art, and most especially reading education (you learning-worshippers, you. pre-gutenberg writing was often religion's.) i would venture to say that the majority of venerated art though world history has been at least in part religious.
mmm. cthulu always has uber-comic nerd cred. i think that's gabe talking. gabe's being experimentalist as always with the art, making it look like a hallmark card or short children's xmas book, most especially the night before xmas.
idunno, i'm not laughing at them either, but i don't mind them doing something different for the holidays.
sometimes it's not even so much the game as the passtime. i heard and older woman comment that getting together to play video games are to the younger generation what getting together for poker night was for an older generation. i'm not surprised that transcends to poker widows.
i told her she was +5 insightful, and then she just stared at me blankly.
thank you, rockstar games, you've demonstrated to be a fine videogame company in every circumstance i've yet to come accross your name.
i enjoyed gta2 immensely when it was originally released, and though i likely haven't the time to accept your very generous offer of getting it again for free, i appreciate it so very much.
i will be paying special attention to your releases, and eagerly anticipate the next red dead revolver. do more stuff with capcom, PLEASE. that SO sounds like a winning combination of the best of western and eastern gaming.
(see, this is how advertizing should be: get people to like you enough to want to tell others.)
by all means... purchase it AND use the hacked version. sure, you don't get to protest.. but daaayum, this is one to let go. ^^
i still can't play offline tho i bought legit, i guess because of the graphics driver warning that pops up. i made due effort, even write emails with requests that went unanswered, not even by form letter: 1, I intend to use a no-cd hack, 2, i want to be able to play offline.
i don't much time to game, so i'm still planning on trying out some online multiplayer and haven't patched it just yet. so idunno, it's become like weighing xboxmediaplayer against xboxlive. if you've got ample local opponants, go for it.
nooo.. it's a fairly common way to find security holes. you can identify every input and every state a program can enter, test all that to be solid, and it can still yield security flaws when working together with another peice of software. This happens most especially on the web, where multiple technologies plug into each other, and unless the sandboxing is extremely solid, a combination of programs noone considered can easily have dastardly results. i think the usefulness of a desktop search tool to any bug looking for targets to infect is pretty obvious. The settings files for the programs are easily mined for info too, if they're not already stored in that abhorrent windows registry.
meh... I agree the -details- of religion have no such footing, but any one guess as to how the complexities of reality came about is as good as any other.
I agree, this, though its' impact isn't felt yet, will have the most impact, of all I've read here. I'm eagerly anticipating sega's reaction, and I hope its' as good as midway's.
I know the technicalities of your points on the rights of pre-18-year olds to be true. I don't like them, but you're absolutely right.
I'm not far enough from that age to sympathize with this kind of legislation, but according to the technicalities, it's A-OK.
One of the greatest things 'the system' misses is accounting for perception at each of its' nodes. I'll tell you this much: we're farming future 18-year-olds that will have already had years of experience for the NEGATIVE regarding government, and those perceptions won't be immediately reversed once they gain full citizen-rights.
surely you acknowledge that much that is good in this world is subtle, while much that is bad is sensational. material gain, i think for many, in the long run anyway, is not commonly found to be as valuable as friends and most especially family. From that angle, I don't think a price tag could or should be applied to the value of a person's presence in others' lives. To avoid getting too pussy, even keeping within the hard and accountable view of things, there is SO much a person can accomplish during their lives, from acts deserving fame to the humble role of supporting another person's life. Why do insurance policies pay out such lotto-worthy amounts? because that's (a poor, imho) accounting of your worth from the view of how much responsibility live and produce you have.
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Thank you for the links. They were informative, though I must regard the first as highly dubious--only because I'm unfamiliar with any of the sources' credibility.
I'm curious though why this uranium hasn't crossed my ears yet while reports (like tfa) that little worthy of WMDs have been found. My unfounded suspicion is that the uranium your article speaks of is of a quality that excludes the potential for being turned into a weapon. (excluding depleted uranium shells, which are useful for their heaviness, not radioactivity). I really don't know though.
The centrifuge as well is hardly damning evidence.. you could accuse 13-year-old-me of a lot for having the anarchist's cookbook, by that logic. Further, is the centrifuge essential to (or indicative of) making atomic weapons? that specific connection was never made--there is no mention of weapons in the article. Lastly, the newsmax link specifically states all highly enriched uranium was exported from Iraq in 1992, and the 2 tons you spoke of was unrefined and low-grade. Quoting from 1 link deep from your atoomspianage.com link at world-nuclear.org: "Some reactors, for example the Canadian-designed Candu and the British Magnox reactors, use natural uranium as their fuel. Most present day reactors (Light Water Reactors or LWRs) use enriched uranium where the proportion of the U-235 isotope has been increased from 0.7% to about 3 or up to 5%. (For comparison, uranium used for nuclear weapons would have to be enriched in plants specially designed to produce at least 90% U-235.)"
I'm not spitting on your face, only trying to exhibit a little due dilligence in understanding the situation. I'm sorry liberal reactionaries have distanced you from thinking liberals.
THANK you, EXACTLY.
if anything, i take a diversity in advertizing / content as an indicator of true impartiality.
It depends. Entering into WWII was a situation where we created a lot of production and jobs that weren't there before. Post-WWII, few American wars have been at the behest of the hearts of the American people, but instead, at least in part, to legitimize the continuance of the military industry birthed for WWII. Sadly, a healthy chunk of our economy still depends on a need for war, or at least military actions. Death is big business, and we as a country are an addict to it, economically and perhaps even psychologically.
I wish i could mod you up.
hey, don't knock it--security holes in mere font files made xboxen nice and soft-moddable. ^_-
which came first, the chicken or the egg? the church used art like the riaa uses artists and the nba uses basketball players. sure, basketball and music came first and exist independantly outside of the nba and published music, but the institutions are where the masses attention has always been, and it's that mass-attention that weilds a lot of power. the players fight for more pay from the nba, not the other way around, the record companies farm for artists, not the other way around, and the church sponsored art.
It's a bidirectional, but NOT EQUAL relationship. The church USED art and writing, not the other way around.
"Turn so happily to it?" Perhaps you've misread me.. though I defend a church's right to adorurn itself, and give historical credit where is due, that does not mean I agree with all of its' policies. And further, my explanation was not limited to the catholic church--it's true for any religion I can think of.
I don't know what subversion you're speaking of--I've never heard of painters whipped into painting for religion. The word is patronage, and like another poster said, is largely tied to the church's position of power rather than any merits in religion. Patronage is important.. many many artists get their practice and paycheck putting their art to someone else's desires rather than any internal muse. Deny patronage and you deny the market for art, making it all the harder to be an artist. The curch was as subverting to michelangelo as kelloggs is to the guy who says "it's gr-r-r-reat!!!".
Oh absolutely, enter the curch's motives into the equation and they can fall from grace, so to speak. Still the fact remains that they WERE patrons though much of written history. Getting back to specifics as well: each church's congregations seem pleased with the work, it keeps the craft-artisans employed if not keeping the whole art from dying out.
I don't think it's any more right to fault a church for doing so as it is to fault me for drinking--each do enough good, allow some frivolity.
hahahah, absolutely right. i'll amend my story next time i tell it ^^
tap for upkeep..
i completely agree with you, but I doubt the church's congregation would more often than not.
tfa seems like good advice. i've known people to whom a regular schedule came naturally, and i envy them to some degree.
i've never felt right getting up before 10, and i've always wanted to stay up late. --ALL-- my life, but admittedly, less so lately as i'm approaching late 20s and for the most part have a daily routine.
i dream one day we'll put rockets in the earth and slow the rotation so that we get 36 hour days. 12 work, 12 play, 12 sleep, THAT would come naturally to me. 8 of each just isn't enough in one day.
ahhhh geez, that art is in a large sense communal.
spurn the church's patronage of art and you spurn michelangelo, donatello, and all the rest of the ninja turtles. seriously, people forget that though science and society seems to have outgrown the need for dogma, the church through history propped up the infant institutions of art, and most especially reading education (you learning-worshippers, you. pre-gutenberg writing was often religion's.) i would venture to say that the majority of venerated art though world history has been at least in part religious.
if boeing used these processors somewhere in the cockpit, would that make them a terrorist organization?
argh, i should preview my posts. mixed the names a bit. forget it.
mmm. cthulu always has uber-comic nerd cred. i think that's gabe talking. gabe's being experimentalist as always with the art, making it look like a hallmark card or short children's xmas book, most especially the night before xmas.
idunno, i'm not laughing at them either, but i don't mind them doing something different for the holidays.
sometimes it's not even so much the game as the passtime. i heard and older woman comment that getting together to play video games are to the younger generation what getting together for poker night was for an older generation. i'm not surprised that transcends to poker widows.
i told her she was +5 insightful, and then she just stared at me blankly.
thank you, rockstar games, you've demonstrated to be a fine videogame company in every circumstance i've yet to come accross your name.
i enjoyed gta2 immensely when it was originally released, and though i likely haven't the time to accept your very generous offer of getting it again for free, i appreciate it so very much.
i will be paying special attention to your releases, and eagerly anticipate the next red dead revolver. do more stuff with capcom, PLEASE. that SO sounds like a winning combination of the best of western and eastern gaming.
(see, this is how advertizing should be: get people to like you enough to want to tell others.)
by all means... purchase it AND use the hacked version. sure, you don't get to protest.. but daaayum, this is one to let go. ^^
i still can't play offline tho i bought legit, i guess because of the graphics driver warning that pops up. i made due effort, even write emails with requests that went unanswered, not even by form letter: 1, I intend to use a no-cd hack, 2, i want to be able to play offline.
i don't much time to game, so i'm still planning on trying out some online multiplayer and haven't patched it just yet. so idunno, it's become like weighing xboxmediaplayer against xboxlive. if you've got ample local opponants, go for it.
nooo.. it's a fairly common way to find security holes. you can identify every input and every state a program can enter, test all that to be solid, and it can still yield security flaws when working together with another peice of software. This happens most especially on the web, where multiple technologies plug into each other, and unless the sandboxing is extremely solid, a combination of programs noone considered can easily have dastardly results. i think the usefulness of a desktop search tool to any bug looking for targets to infect is pretty obvious. The settings files for the programs are easily mined for info too, if they're not already stored in that abhorrent windows registry.
I don't really know which reply to my post to attach this to, but since it addresses them all, I'll hook it to my first post.
I'm disappointed techies who no doubt love the matrix trilogy are arguing so hard for the validity of perception.
-funny hypocritical section-
i know that i know nothing, do you?
-/funny hypocritical section-
will trade cheap recordable media for cheap prescription drugs--call me.
meh... I agree the -details- of religion have no such footing, but any one guess as to how the complexities of reality came about is as good as any other.
I agree, this, though its' impact isn't felt yet, will have the most impact, of all I've read here. I'm eagerly anticipating sega's reaction, and I hope its' as good as midway's.
I know the technicalities of your points on the rights of pre-18-year olds to be true. I don't like them, but you're absolutely right.
I'm not far enough from that age to sympathize with this kind of legislation, but according to the technicalities, it's A-OK.
One of the greatest things 'the system' misses is accounting for perception at each of its' nodes. I'll tell you this much: we're farming future 18-year-olds that will have already had years of experience for the NEGATIVE regarding government, and those perceptions won't be immediately reversed once they gain full citizen-rights.
that may be the funniest one i've read yet.
ohhh your post hurts to read.
surely you acknowledge that much that is good in this world is subtle, while much that is bad is sensational. material gain, i think for many, in the long run anyway, is not commonly found to be as valuable as friends and most especially family. From that angle, I don't think a price tag could or should be applied to the value of a person's presence in others' lives. To avoid getting too pussy, even keeping within the hard and accountable view of things, there is SO much a person can accomplish during their lives, from acts deserving fame to the humble role of supporting another person's life. Why do insurance policies pay out such lotto-worthy amounts? because that's (a poor, imho) accounting of your worth from the view of how much responsibility live and produce you have.