Oh please. How do you propose to carry a war, in white gloves? It is nasty to deliberately scare people, but it's better to be scared than dead. If you accept the sole fact we're going to war, you can't protest the military actions. If you don't accept the fact that the war has been started at all (as it is you right to do, and w/r to Iraq I second you, but not w/r to Kosovo campaign), than say it openly and don't just criticize the "shock and awe" operation. It's just like with Dresden bombings. People criticize it forgetting what was going on since 1939.
I don't know which kind of media you were watching, but Serbian bombings can't be possibly called a war crime. They were directed against factories, military installations, power plants, etc. They were often carried out during the night, so there were few people in the area. (Serbian military wasn't really very badly damaged through these raids, as Serbs were masters of camouflage and had better air defence than Iraq, for sure.) I even remember the NATO giving advance warning to Serbs to clear the building of people, so that only buildings were destroyed. Of course, destroying industrial buildings, disrupting power grid and so on wreaks havoc on any country's economy, but that 's just tough luck of a country which voluntarily started wars against other nations, supported a crooked dictator (only after the NATO 1997 campaign did Milosevic's rating really drop) and tolerated armed bands doing ethnic cleansings in Kosovo and other places. Feel free to carry out historical analogies.
I won't comment on the Iraq "Shock and Awe" campaign, though. Whatever you may say about the bombings themselves, Serbian campaing had clear moral justification.
Think long hot DRY summers - crop failure, famine, death and disease.
Ah....long hot summers, I can't wait. As for dry and crop failure, that's what we have water for. It generally counteracts the effects of dryness. Also, there are countries with warm sunny climates and they haven't died of famine, in fact they'r thriving. What are you talking about? Are you saying that Italy for instance is an arid wasteland, where not even olives can grow?
We have less and less water clean enough to be used in agriculture. In my country (Poland) level of ground waters has been dropping during the last 50 years. Water is becoming a luxurious commodity in many places of the world. Ask the farmers near Rio Grande, for example.
Your picking of Italy as an example shows you know little on agriculture. Olives (and wine) do not need much water to grow. But you can't live on wine and olives. You need grass to feed the herds on, you need a lot more water to grow crops, vegetables and fruits. Southern Italy is becoming really dry by now, esp. Sicily.
Hot summers can be dangerous to old people, as over 10,000 dead in France during the 2004 (or 2003) summer show.
It very natural. Do you think that Arabs were more concerned with earthquakes in Japan, or in Iran? That's why globalization is good, it makes people realize we're one human species after all.
That's right. When I was wedded in the church, the photographer had to obtain a permission from the priest. Probably, some money has been transfered for the glory of the Roman Catholic church as well;-)
Europe has abolished the death penalty, so I don't think your views would meet wide support there. Hatred is what is speaking through you. Substitute "cathedrals" for "madrassas" and "infidels" for "mullahs" and you get Osama bin Laden.
If the 9/11 terrorists were caught before they committed their atrocious deeds, I don't think they'de be executed, at least not all of them, even in the US. So your "preemptive murder" doctrine is a bit stepping ahead of the ranks.
You can do such generator for yourself. Geiger counters ain't expensive, and for radioactive material try old Russian watches with phosphorising dials.
Those egss are very Western-centric, aren't they? This alone shelds a lot of doubt on the claims of the "researchers". Besides, how come they call them Random Event Generators and at the same time attribute some predicting power to them?
Did the team release the blueprints for the chips? May I make my own and see for myself, how it behaves over a long period?
2. "you just LEPT to the conclusion I'm both liberal and Democrat" - Inaccurate, I accused you of being a liberal not a liberal and a Democrat. You don't handle the truth accurately.
How can you ACCUSE somebody of being a liberal? If this were now a crime in the US, I'd be afraid to visit it.
3. "the Republican's have complete control of government now and are massively dangerous and are massively abusing their power." - What, by prosecuting a war against our enemies. This is just alarmist agitprop. Again, you don't know history (or you are deliberatly blind to it.) They are only dangerous to those who are enemies of the US.
And who defines those "enemies"? The Republicans waged a war because of non-existent WMD's in Iraq, while allowing North Korea to develop nuclear weapons. Turns out, the Republicans in power are mostly dangerous... to the US.
5. "Reagan and Bush presided over the staggering deficits that dwarf anything the Democrats manages" - Wrong again. Reagan, through tax cuts DOUBLED treasury revenues beginining in 1982. You admitted that tax cuts are great for bringing the economy out of recession. This is why I called you a simpleton. Tax cuts and deficits are not mutually exclusive. Increased economic growth equals more economic activity equals more taxable transactions equals increased tax revenues. If you want to get rid of the deficit, cut taxes and spending.
The famous Laferre curve (it's IMHO an exaggeration to make so much out of a simple application of Rolle's theorem), yes? As one wise economist pointed out, the trouble is to know where you are on this curve.
And as long as you don't mind fixing various bugs when upgrading from OO 1.1.2 to 1.1.3. I don't use OO myself (I typeset my reports/notes/articles in LaTeX, and create short notes in Abiword), but I heard many stories of funny errors in OO. Yes, you need a professional to implement OO in the office.
"When you say I am a good programmer, you define the others as bad."
I disagree. Praising someone does not necessarily require putting others down. If I say 'he's good at something' I may as well forget about the others. What if I praise the only painter in the world? According to you, it would be impossible, because I would not have other painters to compare him/her to.
They can have viable businesses without stealing other people's ideas. Most people go into business for other reasons than becoming Mother Teresa, so why should they give away the results of their hard work and investment for free?
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So what's the point of keeping such law system? Can't a judge decide on his own?
Don't get carried too far by your "everybody's against us" bias. Kyoto treaty was negotiated by Americans, too.
Less people will be affected.
Yes, but this cesium was spread over vast area.
Oh please. How do you propose to carry a war, in white gloves? It is nasty to deliberately scare people, but it's better to be scared than dead. If you accept the sole fact we're going to war, you can't protest the military actions. If you don't accept the fact that the war has been started at all (as it is you right to do, and w/r to Iraq I second you, but not w/r to Kosovo campaign), than say it openly and don't just criticize the "shock and awe" operation. It's just like with Dresden bombings. People criticize it forgetting what was going on since 1939.
I don't know which kind of media you were watching, but Serbian bombings can't be possibly called a war crime. They were directed against factories, military installations, power plants, etc. They were often carried out during the night, so there were few people in the area. (Serbian military wasn't really very badly damaged through these raids, as Serbs were masters of camouflage and had better air defence than Iraq, for sure.) I even remember the NATO giving advance warning to Serbs to clear the building of people, so that only buildings were destroyed. Of course, destroying industrial buildings, disrupting power grid and so on wreaks havoc on any country's economy, but that 's just tough luck of a country which voluntarily started wars against other nations, supported a crooked dictator (only after the NATO 1997 campaign did Milosevic's rating really drop) and tolerated armed bands doing ethnic cleansings in Kosovo and other places. Feel free to carry out historical analogies.
I won't comment on the Iraq "Shock and Awe" campaign, though. Whatever you may say about the bombings themselves, Serbian campaing had clear moral justification.
That you can be detained for unspecified amount of time, without your family given any hint to what happened to you?
As the Patriot act shows, inside the U.S. the U.S. constitution can be treated like a sheet of toilet paper, too.
They also believe that someone's Alabama national guard service is more honorable than someone's Vietnam service.
Or, that being a good boat commander doesn't make you a good president.
Average family in Europe uses tons of water each month. Do the math.
Tell it to countries in the middle of Africa, or Asia. Water is quite heave, and the transportation costs would be enourmous.
Most applications install their own versions of DLL's 'just in case'.
Your picking of Italy as an example shows you know little on agriculture. Olives (and wine) do not need much water to grow. But you can't live on wine and olives. You need grass to feed the herds on, you need a lot more water to grow crops, vegetables and fruits. Southern Italy is becoming really dry by now, esp. Sicily.
Hot summers can be dangerous to old people, as over 10,000 dead in France during the 2004 (or 2003) summer show.
It very natural. Do you think that Arabs were more concerned with earthquakes in Japan, or in Iran? That's why globalization is good, it makes people realize we're one human species after all.
That's right. When I was wedded in the church, the photographer had to obtain a permission from the priest. Probably, some money has been transfered for the glory of the Roman Catholic church as well ;-)
Europe has abolished the death penalty, so I don't think your views would meet wide support there. Hatred is what is speaking through you. Substitute "cathedrals" for "madrassas" and "infidels" for "mullahs" and you get Osama bin Laden.
If the 9/11 terrorists were caught before they committed their atrocious deeds, I don't think they'de be executed, at least not all of them, even in the US. So your "preemptive murder" doctrine is a bit stepping ahead of the ranks.
I'd like to see how many "special" sequences they had which were NOT followed by an event they deemed special.
You can do such generator for yourself. Geiger counters ain't expensive, and for radioactive material try old Russian watches with phosphorising dials.
Those egss are very Western-centric, aren't they? This alone shelds a lot of doubt on the claims of the "researchers". Besides, how come they call them Random Event Generators and at the same time attribute some predicting power to them?
Did the team release the blueprints for the chips? May I make my own and see for myself, how it behaves over a long period?
2. "you just LEPT to the conclusion I'm both liberal and Democrat" - Inaccurate, I accused you of being a liberal not a liberal and a Democrat. You don't handle the truth accurately.
How can you ACCUSE somebody of being a liberal? If this were now a crime in the US, I'd be afraid to visit it.
3. "the Republican's have complete control of government now and are massively dangerous and are massively abusing their power." - What, by prosecuting a war against our enemies. This is just alarmist agitprop. Again, you don't know history (or you are deliberatly blind to it.) They are only dangerous to those who are enemies of the US.
And who defines those "enemies"? The Republicans waged a war because of non-existent WMD's in Iraq, while allowing North Korea to develop nuclear weapons. Turns out, the Republicans in power are mostly dangerous... to the US.
5. "Reagan and Bush presided over the staggering deficits that dwarf anything the Democrats manages" - Wrong again. Reagan, through tax cuts DOUBLED treasury revenues beginining in 1982. You admitted that tax cuts are great for bringing the economy out of recession. This is why I called you a simpleton. Tax cuts and deficits are not mutually exclusive. Increased economic growth equals more economic activity equals more taxable transactions equals increased tax revenues. If you want to get rid of the deficit, cut taxes and spending.
The famous Laferre curve (it's IMHO an exaggeration to make so much out of a simple application of Rolle's theorem), yes? As one wise economist pointed out, the trouble is to know where you are on this curve.
And as long as you don't mind fixing various bugs when upgrading from OO 1.1.2 to 1.1.3. I don't use OO myself (I typeset my reports/notes/articles in LaTeX, and create short notes in Abiword), but I heard many stories of funny errors in OO. Yes, you need a professional to implement OO in the office.
Something happened in early 2000, before that peak, their price made a steady upward progression with barely a setback.
Wasn't it the time the IT stock bubble burst?
"When you say I am a good programmer, you define the others as bad."
I disagree. Praising someone does not necessarily require putting others down. If I say 'he's good at something' I may as well forget about the others. What if I praise the only painter in the world? According to you, it would be impossible, because I would not have other painters to compare him/her to.
Unfortunately, it is embedded in Marxist philosophy that the masses should be rules by the 'wise ones'.
They can have viable businesses without stealing other people's ideas. Most people go into business for other reasons than becoming Mother Teresa, so why should they give away the results of their hard work and investment for free?