Gaddafi threatened to attack foreign civilian planes and boats over the mediterranean if any country attacked his forces.
Surely that helped justify this UN resolution. Yeah, it's a conditional threat based on the result of the resolution, but the fact that he threatens foreign civilians just shows how deranged he is (and underscores the fact that he'll do anything to retain power, which obviously includes slaughtering his own people).
There's a minor movie in which the female hero runs down the side of a 40-story building with a rope reeling out behind her for support. As she nears the ground, she flips to land feet-first, and starts shooting. That was real.
Good to see some feedback confirming my suspicions coming from someone who actually lives in Ireland!
It seems that this bailout is not a done deal yet until the 7th of December, so you can still fight against it. I just read this article and thought it was interesting:
German banks, which in turn suffered from Irelands mortgage crisis.
Apparently the German banks will be made whole by this bailout, which was my whole point. The Irish taxpayers are going to be stuck with all the losses, having to pay interest on these bailout loans is the insult added to the injury.
Here's a novel idea: the stupid banks that loaned too much money to Irish banks should also lose some money for their mistake.
And who bought the overpriced houses in Ireland's real estate bubble? Foreign banks and governments?
Logically it was mostly Irish people who are probably pretty fucked today, i.e. either paying off a underwater mortgage or defaulting and getting foreclosed on.
Are you saying that just because the Ireland is in a bad shape after a 'free market' robbery left it underfunded, it should be allowed to permanently rob the monies they borrowed?
I'm saying that as with any bad loan, the blame is shared between the one who took the loan and the one who gave it.
I'm further saying that by "bailing out" Ireland (i.e. trying to make it pay insane debts by forcing pain upon taxpayers), the ones giving the loans are being rescued and not paying for their mistake, unlike the Irish.
Would it stop people from leaking and divulging information? No.
Would it make people stop caring about the leaks? No, on the contrary.
You also don't know what kind of "dead man switches" Wikileaks may have implemented. Perhaps a barrage of damaging classified information could come out at once. Maybe something that really shouldn't / won't be revealed like the locations of CIA agents, etc.
Yeah but you're ignoring the fact that most of their problems right now are from backstopping the Irish banks. Banks that owe a lot of money to foreign banks, with hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign exposure to Ireland.
Oh I'm not saying that Japan's problem was its debt. However, it is true that the government ran up debt (200% of GDP ?!?) to "stimulate" the economy, which will be a disaster for them at some point.
This is over-simplified. Germany might appear to be paying for Europe's bills, but how much of this "bailout" is going right back to German/US/etc. banks which would go bankrupt if the IMF / EU wasn't "bailing out" Ireland?
Follow the money, don't think just one move ahead. These bailouts are nothing more but the partial enslavement of Irish taxpayers in order to rescue foreign banks and governments.
By saving during the surplus years to cover deficit years?
Same thing with corporations and individuals. Just because you spend more than you make in some years (i.e. not making a profit), that doesn't mean you're necessarily going into debt.
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It's called Moore's law.
It's not only a no fly zone authorization. As I understood it, this UN resolution permits everything except a foreign invasion of Lybia.
Don't be surprised if planes are soon (or now) attacking Lybian military targets to weaken Gaddafi.
Gaddafi threatened to attack foreign civilian planes and boats over the mediterranean if any country attacked his forces.
Surely that helped justify this UN resolution. Yeah, it's a conditional threat based on the result of the resolution, but the fact that he threatens foreign civilians just shows how deranged he is (and underscores the fact that he'll do anything to retain power, which obviously includes slaughtering his own people).
Maybe he borrowed the money, so now he might owe $200k plus interest.
I think you wanted to post that in another story.
What about accidental deletion before you do snapshots, versioning or backups?
Why would a foreign government buy Intel CPUs, knowing that the US gov could force Intel to shut them down? It seems like a deal breaker for any
What movie was that?
can it detect cloaked spies carrying sappers?
No, I'm pretty sure that his main predictions only require that computing power increase enough to provide a cheap simulation of the human brain.
Good to see some feedback confirming my suspicions coming from someone who actually lives in Ireland!
It seems that this bailout is not a done deal yet until the 7th of December, so you can still fight against it. I just read this article and thought it was interesting:
http://gonzalolira.blogspot.com/2010/11/if-ireland-doesnt-take-bailout.html#more
Best of luck fighting this, I know other countries will be next if Ireland falls to the global bankers.
Apparently the German banks will be made whole by this bailout, which was my whole point. The Irish taxpayers are going to be stuck with all the losses, having to pay interest on these bailout loans is the insult added to the injury.
Here's a novel idea: the stupid banks that loaned too much money to Irish banks should also lose some money for their mistake.
Logically it was mostly Irish people who are probably pretty fucked today, i.e. either paying off a underwater mortgage or defaulting and getting foreclosed on.
What point were you trying to make?
I'm saying that as with any bad loan, the blame is shared between the one who took the loan and the one who gave it.
I'm further saying that by "bailing out" Ireland (i.e. trying to make it pay insane debts by forcing pain upon taxpayers), the ones giving the loans are being rescued and not paying for their mistake, unlike the Irish.
What good would it be for them to kill him?
Would it stop people from leaking and divulging information? No.
Would it make people stop caring about the leaks? No, on the contrary.
You also don't know what kind of "dead man switches" Wikileaks may have implemented. Perhaps a barrage of damaging classified information could come out at once. Maybe something that really shouldn't / won't be revealed like the locations of CIA agents, etc.
Yeah but you're ignoring the fact that most of their problems right now are from backstopping the Irish banks. Banks that owe a lot of money to foreign banks, with hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign exposure to Ireland.
Oh I'm not saying that Japan's problem was its debt. However, it is true that the government ran up debt (200% of GDP ?!?) to "stimulate" the economy, which will be a disaster for them at some point.
Selling bonds to your own population is still debt (look at Japan, that's exactly what they are doing).
Running deficits without going into debt requires the accumulation of capital during the years when you're not running a deficit.
This is over-simplified. Germany might appear to be paying for Europe's bills, but how much of this "bailout" is going right back to German/US/etc. banks which would go bankrupt if the IMF / EU wasn't "bailing out" Ireland?
Follow the money, don't think just one move ahead. These bailouts are nothing more but the partial enslavement of Irish taxpayers in order to rescue foreign banks and governments.
By saving during the surplus years to cover deficit years?
Same thing with corporations and individuals. Just because you spend more than you make in some years (i.e. not making a profit), that doesn't mean you're necessarily going into debt.
Many people. Both Argentina and Russia defaulted on their debt and they are able to borrow today.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3e/Zimbabwe_%24100_trillion_2009_Obverse.jpg
I never saw any evidence that the parameters were changed during games. In between games yes, which I don't see a problem with.
A very high proportion of cars in Europe are diesel, and they're not any smellier than gasoline cars.
Maybe the American diesel cars are just crap, which isn't surprising since they're not so famous there (kind of a vicious circle I guess).
Maybe if you're talking about engines from the 80s or something,