From what I've read he had quite powerful explosives - enough to blow a hole in the plane - but he didn't properly research how to detonate them. What I read, which was just to double check with wikipedia before making the original post, was that he had TATP and PETN in his shoes, both of which are super delicate, like more unstable than nitrogylcerin.
Which leads me to believe that since he had them in his shoes, which can easily experiences 100s of Gs of force in normal usage (iirc, stubbing your toe is typically a 500G event) he either had almost no explosives, or they were in an effectively inert state which means they were no good for a bomb either.
You seem to think that the only reason we needed to go into Iraq was WMD's. No, I seem to think that GWB, rarely if ever used anything other than WMDs as a pretense to invade iraq. And since this debate is about abuse of power by GWB and company - the people who are supposed to be accountable to the american public, that's the context that maters.
Don't play with loaded questions, you might hurt yourself.
You want to get all emotional and fru-fru about justifications after the fact, you go ahead and argue that you believe the ends justify the means. You'll really have to stretch to justify the rough quadrupling of the moratlity rate to ~1 million additional deaths due to the sanctions and the invasion.
Good job ignoring the fundamental economic issues in favor of mindless rhetoric.
Perhaps you can support your position by at least trying to show a case where the ACLU turned it down and the NRA, with its 10x greater funding, did not pick it up?
Also, I'm curious. Do you really not care about all the mass graves and rape rooms found all over Iraq? Why does a true tyrant who really did fill mass graves and gas women and children not bother nearly half as much you as much as Bush? Also, I'm curious. When did you stop beating your wife?
That's what it started out as. Now, it's an organization dedicated to defending those parts of the Constitution it approves of and those interpretations that match its agenda. The ACLU has made it quite plain a number of times that it will not, under any circumstances defend the Second Amendment. As long as that's its position, I, among many others, want nothing to do with it. Time for you to start supporting the ACLU then.
There is only so much money to go around and the NRA - which only cares about 2nd amendment issues - has an order of magnitude more funding than the ACLU does. Do you refuse to support the NRA because they won't take on other civil rights cases?
There, made it true for ya and removed the political rhetoric. Not quite. So called "intelligence" is never black and white, it is assigned confidence levels by the analysts who compile it. Bush & co were quite happy to cherry pick the reports that supported their desire to invade iraq and ignore the reports that suggested that iraq's possession of WMDs were unlikely. Or at least that's what the head of the CIA says is what happened.
Dude, your SHOES smelled like gasoline. They thought you were the next Richard Reid. You are lucky they didn't detain you permanently.
BTW, ever notice that we never hear one word about how effective Reid's shoe bomb would have been had he successfully lit the fuse? Yet we hear all kinds of overstated blah-blah about anything remotely bomb-like (like the recent london car 'bombs' filled with gasoline but lacking critical components like an accelerant, but we still hear how they could have killed hundreds.)
I think its because Reid's shoes would not have done more than give him blisters even if he had been able to light them up.
Even a residential subscriber can get business FIOS, for about double the monthly fee Depending on the level of service, the difference can be much less.
I know a guy with residential 50/5 fios who pays ~$155/month for that. He also has business fios 35/10 and that costs $165/month. Yes, he has both connections at once. They ran separate pairs of fibre.
It is not "representative" of this section of the population or another, its what Hamas is broadcasting on its newspapers, TV and radio networks. It is a small part of what of what parts of hamas are broadcasting in some of its newspapers, tv and radio networks. To draw conclusions from it about the whole of the population is completely disingenuous.
You will not find similar propaganda about Iranians in America, or about Palestinians in Israel. Define similar? Just the other day the israeli deputy defense minister threatened the inhabitants of gaza with a holocaust. I can't really think of a worse characterization than that.
If you disbelieve how awful Palestinian propaganda really is, take a look at Palestinian Media Watch. If you believe those cartoons and videos are fakes generated by the Israeli site, please say so. What I disbelieve is the characterization of such extremist propaganda as representative of the general population.
I do believe that a majority of palestinians are pissed as all hell at israel in general. But I don't believe that a majority of palestinians believe in the demonifcation of the people of israel. Just as I don't believe that a majority of americans believe in the demonification of the people of iran.
If you believe that the extremist palestinian propaganda which has been narrowly selected by the israeli propaganda site is representative of the majority of palestinians, please say so.
The GP congratulates a certain set of people for finding a solution which is better than suicide bombing. You think "He is talking about Arabs.". Perhaps it is you who have the stereotyping problem, not the GP. You are putting words in his mouth. Precisely! We all know about the thousands of suicide bombing attacks on their own government facilities by who citizens don't feel adequately protected by their own government. It is really a huge deal that these guys were able to exercise their right to petition their own government instead of just blowing it up like everybody else does.
And certainly complaining to a Jew about being booted out of your homeland is a lost cause. At least for the first 2000 years. Do you know just how insulting that is? You are saying that if the jews put up with it, it must be OK. Ever stop to think that a wrong is a wrong regardless of who it is done to?
The Palestinians have never wanted peace with Israel as evidenced by Arafat's rejection of Ehud Barak's offer of land for Palestinian statehood in 2000 and then no Palestinian counteroffer. There were two main reasons Arafat rejected Barak's offer in 2000 - it did not include the right of return of palestinians to their original land or at least a 1-to-1 swap for equivalent land and it divided the so-called "palestinian state" into 4 discontiguous islands, surrounded by, and thus controlled by israel. This is basic current events Zuke, why don't you know it?
As for a counter-offer? The counter-offer was on the table and already agreed to by israel over a decade earlier - UN resolutions 242 and 338 which both israel and palestine accepted in 1991 and reaffirmed at Oslo in 1993.
To say that palestinians have "never wanted peace" when they had agreed to a plan a decade earlier is completely facetious. Now, a right-winger will respond that the palestinians didn't agree to oslo in good faith. A left-winger will respond that israel didn't agree to oslo in good faith either. My opinion is that each side let themselves be over-come by their own radical elements - bombers on the palestinian side and militant settlers on the israeli side.
Clearly there is plenty of opportunity for peace. But as long as opinions like yours are prevalent, they become a self-fullfilling prophecy.
Maybe something like this laser system might push them to enough despair to actually give it up. Yeah, that's some keen insight into human psychology. When has that ever worked? Total despair means nothing left to lose and people with nothing left to lose make ideal suicide bombers.
I have to agree, but I'll also point out that going by quite a bit of the propaganda on the Palestinian side says that there won't be any peace until all Israelites are 'pushed into the sea'. Is that quite a bit of palestinian propaganda, or quite a bit of right wing israeli propaganda making those claims about the palestinian propaganda?
that our personal rights can, in some cases, trump the good of society. Maybe that's the way some people see it in the USA. I see it as personal rights being a requirement for the long-term good of society. That while short-term violations of rights may appear to yield short-term benefits for "the good of society," in the long-term those violations do a net harm to society.
I think its summed up well in the saying about Benito Mussolini -- "At least he made the trains run on time!"
And play them on what? They won't play on any BD player currently in existence, or likely in existence in the future (by design). They will play JUST FINE if they are re-authored -- i.e. the file formats are changed to that of BD (most of the data won't need to be resampled, just reorganized). And even if it won't play - if he's ripped it to his PC, he play it on his PC, TODAY.
Microsoft can make money on windows without charging for it; they can charge $15/copy for the minicomputer version. You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
You completely failed to understand and address my point. I bongo, with my lingo And beat it like a wing yo Can't stereotype my thing yo Bingo I got em in the thing yo
I was just making you aware of a fault in your post that makes your argument fail. No, you set up a strawman and knocked it down. My argument was never what you said it was. Bingo.
I think you need to try a little harder to understand the difference between an individual abusing the system and what you're suggesting. Gee, what part of "nothing" means "something?"
Any system will always have the potential for individual abuse. Which is precisely the reason every system needs to be questioned because if the system does not exist, it can't be abused. If you think that means I am unilaterally saying that all law enforcement systems should be abolished, I will ask you what part of "questioned" means "abolished?"
I somewhat agree, except for the last part... what are you suggesting? To illustrate that the GP's main point of "you have nothing to hide if you have done nothing wrong" is clearly false. As you said yourself -- "Corruption is going to be there." We all need to fear it.
It's only their _priorities_ which are different. Hell, when each party gets 'campaign fund-raising' money from the same corporate 'donors' - even their priorities are the same.
Don't do evil shit and you won't have to worry. First problem - this system encourages lack of oversight - you know the checks and balances that our American system of government was founded on. In the past, not only did a wiretap require a court order, there was someone at the phone company who actually checked that the court order had been obtained before enabling the wiretap.
Now, while a court order is still legally required, it is no longer technically required. The FBI need only press a button to start wiretapping. Not only is there no one outside of the organization verifying that the FBI has a legitimate need to know, there is no one keeping records of the wiretaps other than the FBI itself. Our American system has been subverted in the name of safety.
Second problem - what the FBI can use, criminals can abuse. And I'm not talking about criminal behaviour by the FBI itself, I mean unauthorized users with the smarts to co-opt the backdoors that the FBI uses. See this paper from the January/February 2008 issue of IEEE Security and Privacy.
Third problem - what's your definition of "evil shit?" Does it include breaking up with your boyfriend, the federal agent?
While I am way too lazy to dig up citations, I am pretty sure that it works on a sliding scale where the longer the movie plays, the smaller the studios' cut. So, first week movies, the studio gets ~85% of the ticket price. Second week, they get 80%, etc. On down to around 30-40% for movies that stick around for months like the original star wars, LotR, etc.
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Which leads me to believe that since he had them in his shoes, which can easily experiences 100s of Gs of force in normal usage (iirc, stubbing your toe is typically a 500G event) he either had almost no explosives, or they were in an effectively inert state which means they were no good for a bomb either.
Don't play with loaded questions, you might hurt yourself.
You want to get all emotional and fru-fru about justifications after the fact, you go ahead and argue that you believe the ends justify the means. You'll really have to stretch to justify the rough quadrupling of the moratlity rate to ~1 million additional deaths due to the sanctions and the invasion.
Good job ignoring the fundamental economic issues in favor of mindless rhetoric.
Perhaps you can support your position by at least trying to show a case where the ACLU turned it down and the NRA, with its 10x greater funding, did not pick it up?
You asked a loaded question, I asked a loaded question.
You answered with the same response your loaded question deserves.
Forgive the OT, but I am responding to a post...
There is only so much money to go around and the NRA - which only cares about 2nd amendment issues - has an order of magnitude more funding than the ACLU does. Do you refuse to support the NRA because they won't take on other civil rights cases?
Dude, your SHOES smelled like gasoline.
They thought you were the next Richard Reid.
You are lucky they didn't detain you permanently.
BTW, ever notice that we never hear one word about how effective Reid's shoe bomb would have been had he successfully lit the fuse? Yet we hear all kinds of overstated blah-blah about anything remotely bomb-like (like the recent london car 'bombs' filled with gasoline but lacking critical components like an accelerant, but we still hear how they could have killed hundreds.)
I think its because Reid's shoes would not have done more than give him blisters even if he had been able to light them up.
I know a guy with residential 50/5 fios who pays ~$155/month for that.
He also has business fios 35/10 and that costs $165/month.
Yes, he has both connections at once. They ran separate pairs of fibre.
I do believe that a majority of palestinians are pissed as all hell at israel in general. But I don't believe that a majority of palestinians believe in the demonifcation of the people of israel. Just as I don't believe that a majority of americans believe in the demonification of the people of iran.
If you believe that the extremist palestinian propaganda which has been narrowly selected by the israeli propaganda site is representative of the majority of palestinians, please say so.
Ever stop to think that a wrong is a wrong regardless of who it is done to?
As for a counter-offer? The counter-offer was on the table and already agreed to by israel over a decade earlier - UN resolutions 242 and 338 which both israel and palestine accepted in 1991 and reaffirmed at Oslo in 1993.
To say that palestinians have "never wanted peace" when they had agreed to a plan a decade earlier is completely facetious. Now, a right-winger will respond that the palestinians didn't agree to oslo in good faith. A left-winger will respond that israel didn't agree to oslo in good faith either. My opinion is that each side let themselves be over-come by their own radical elements - bombers on the palestinian side and militant settlers on the israeli side.
Clearly there is plenty of opportunity for peace. But as long as opinions like yours are prevalent, they become a self-fullfilling prophecy.
When has that ever worked?
Total despair means nothing left to lose and people with nothing left to lose make ideal suicide bombers. I have to agree, but I'll also point out that going by quite a bit of the propaganda on the Palestinian side says that there won't be any peace until all Israelites are 'pushed into the sea'. Is that quite a bit of palestinian propaganda, or quite a bit of right wing israeli propaganda making those claims about the palestinian propaganda?
I think its summed up well in the saying about Benito Mussolini -- "At least he made the trains run on time!"
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a pre-revolutionary automobile loaded with thumb drives!
And beat it like a wing yo
Can't stereotype my thing yo
Bingo I got em in the thing yo I was just making you aware of a fault in your post that makes your argument fail. No, you set up a strawman and knocked it down.
My argument was never what you said it was.
Bingo.
Now, while a court order is still legally required, it is no longer technically required. The FBI need only press a button to start wiretapping. Not only is there no one outside of the organization verifying that the FBI has a legitimate need to know, there is no one keeping records of the wiretaps other than the FBI itself. Our American system has been subverted in the name of safety.
Second problem - what the FBI can use, criminals can abuse. And I'm not talking about criminal behaviour by the FBI itself, I mean unauthorized users with the smarts to co-opt the backdoors that the FBI uses. See this paper from the January/February 2008 issue of IEEE Security and Privacy.
Third problem - what's your definition of "evil shit?" Does it include breaking up with your boyfriend, the federal agent?
While I am way too lazy to dig up citations, I am pretty sure that it works on a sliding scale where the longer the movie plays, the smaller the studios' cut. So, first week movies, the studio gets ~85% of the ticket price. Second week, they get 80%, etc. On down to around 30-40% for movies that stick around for months like the original star wars, LotR, etc.