As a person that is serving, can you confirm that you are allowed to shoot at wounded foes who are not surrendering, not attacking you, and crawling away. (I think that's legal and may even be militarily preferred tho it looks chickenshit and cowardly to open up a 30mm cannon on an unarmed crawling wounded man).
It wasn't an ambulance-- it was an unmarked vehicle.
I think you need to look at 3:40 to 3:46 again. On a larger monitor.
I can't believe they would execute so many unarmed people because someone near them had a weapon.
But you can see two rifle type weapons easily-- especially as one of the guys turns around and light reflects down the length of one of the weapons. At 3:44-3:45 as the one on the right turns around you can see it's a thin object, long and rifle like, with a 9"ish long thicker part near the tip.
It does not look like an AK47 (http://www.enemyforces.net/firearms/ak47.jpg) It's too long and skinny.
It's damn long-- 4'? (3:45) with most of it's length in front of where the guy is holding it, yet it is pointing upwards so the longer part is apparently light. I can't see the handles that most RPG's have tho . (google RPG). This one looks most similar. (http://www.motionpicturearmourer.com/rpg.jpg)
One of the claimed "RPG"'s looked a lot like a camera with a telephoto lens on it to me. It's where the person is leaning out from behind the edge of the building apparently kneeling.
You know- it occurs to me, this video is a lot more apparent to me on a 24" screen than it may be to the pilots on 4" or 6" screens.
It seemed pretty "cowboy", callous, and irresponsible to me.
There was at least one weapon- you can see it clearly. I don't know the rules of engagement at that time, but it looked like an unprovoked and indiscriminate attack by the u.s. helicopter pilots.
Basically they executed 15+ people because one (to a few) people were walking around with weapons.
It also seemed cowardly to shoot on unarmed, crawling, wounded people.
A lot of smart people don't smoke cigarettes. And a lot of smart people do smoke pot (and do other drugs).
So the risk/fun is better there as long as you are not in the 5-10% who can't handle it.
I worked in an office full of smart, highly compensated contract programmers who all had stories about doing plenty of coke back in the 80's too.
Plus, commercial cigarettes taste really bad these days.
Have a good $10-$12 cigar (I have one a year- would like to have more and recently bought a pipe). Get one recommended by the humidor. Then you understand why everyone is crazy about tobacco in history. It tastes good. Really good.
I concur with the above "girls who smoke poke" and "girls who poke a lot could be bad wife risks" and "kissing a girl who smokes is like licking an ashtray". Dated one lady (went to vegas with her) and my tongue tingled from the nicotine in her mouth. We had a blast while there but not something for long term.
I recently had a "Sun Tube" (sold at Home Depot and Lowes) installed in my house as an experiment.
They cost about $153. It eliminates the need for a couple 60 watt bulbs and provides the lighting of about 300 watts. There appears to be no heat gain but I'm sure there is some.
I'm happy with the results-- some people are not. The light is not yellowy like the light we are used to - it's blue white. You look outside the window and it's the same color but somehow it seems different when there isn't a window to compare.
At current prices, I am not sure these would pay off.
It has a "dimmer" door which is run by a solar powered battery as an option for more money.
The android looks a lot more human than "cat lady".
We have one person where i work who looks a bit uncanny- most likely as a result of plastic surgery long ago and now she is older and the illusion is failing.
Now that the top 1% have 2/3 of the income and 42.7% of the wealth (2007), I'm finding it harder and harder to believe that helping the top 1% is helping the rest of the country any more.
And the top 20% have 93% of the wealth. That's right-- 80% of the country shares 7% of the wealth.
At what point does the 80% (or the 99%) say screw the 20% (or the 1%)?
When they start voting. And/or when they stop cutting their own throats and destroying their own jobs over abortion. Hell- Legalize or Ban ABORTION. At least for 10 or 20 years. But OPEN your DAMN eyes and stop letting the corporations and the wealthy starve you and crap down your throats (and I"m talking BOTH republicans AND democrats. Both major parties have been hijacked by 1% of the country!!!)
If you don't open your damn eyes, the wealthy will get control of the military as well and then we are fucked. And HELL YES I'm pissed off at this point.
The top 1% have gone from 52x the income in 1978 to 354x the income in 2006 while shipping tens of THOUSANDS of jobs overseas.
How many TV's does a top 1% wealthy person buy? 8? 10?
How many cars? 10? 20?
How many houses? 5? 12?
How many TV's, cars, houses, did those 6,000 people the bastard laid off buy before he took a 100,000,000 salary & stock and shipped their jobs to india and china (Microsoft! IBM! Etc.!)
Wake up and vote before things start turning violent.
I would say people eating or driving are extremely distracted when they drop the food or drink, the food or drink leaks, or the top pops off the soda and it spews everywhere.
Likewise, in a fast breaking situation, some are more concerned with controlling the soda or food than the car (wouldn't want to mess up the interior with ketchup after all).
a) It's people in F-250 pickup trucks or sports cars on the free way going at least 95 (since I'm speeding at 70 and they just whip by me) b) I have no clue but they didn't have a cell phone c) they were hypnotized... tailgating and had to move fast to avoid rear-ending someone and had no clue who was in other lanes.... z) One time... it was a cell phone person from a side street on residential roads. She pulled out right in front of me== then stopped and stared at me in horror- her cell phone in her right hand- as I slid towards her with the anti-lock brakes humming, foot planted somewhere ahead of my front tires.
I think you should look at a person's activity before accusing them of astroturfing or shilling. The parent poster has a solid varied slashdot activity. Just look at his posts.
Now I suppose Toyota (Microsoft.. etc.) could be paying someone to spend full time on slashdot and normally post their own opinions and jokes but on Company issues always astroturf.
It is harder to get real information any more. A lot of the "news" on local stations is made and released by corporations and used because it's free.
But there exists a chance of simultaneous mass failure. Say... on April 27th at 3pm, all toyota cars begin accelerating and can't be stopped and the brakes are not even activated by pushing the pedal?
That's the problem with computers- they are a multiplier.
And the same goes for having an argument or talking about something emotional to a passenger. People look at each other all the time.
It's a question of how dangerous texting is.
Which means they need some hard counts of how many accidents involve texting specifically.
Is it 100? 200? The article throws around 6,000-- is that it?
Or is it another "all the glaciers will be gone by 2035" factoid?
I've almost T-Boned a person talking on their cell phone who pulled right out in front of me and as I'm smoking the tires to stop they panic and stop instead of continuing onwards.
But that's the only time in my life so far that cell phone usage has been a problem.
I mean- if you really want safe driving, then you put people in single passenger vehicles and don't allow them to eat or drink either.
As the anonymous person points out... your link starts with a note that they are over 90% the same ethnic group. And most view themselves as the same race.
You run into it all over the place... one example being here: http://cobb.typepad.com/cobb/2005/01/is_that_what_yo_1.html "When I pressed him on why he thought that way he finally revealed that because of the racial superiority of the Chinese people, there can never be true equality between a Chinese and non-Chinese and since any deep relationship would require that...there can be no true relationship."
The faster the rest of the world interbreeds with the chinese, the faster this redneck, asian klu klux klan attitude ends.
Part of the reason for swallowing Tibet is that anyone with brown skin, epicanthic eyes and black hair is viewed as part of the same group. Even if they are technically in different countries. Hence why I say it is racial rather than national. However, these tiny countries are really edge cases around the borders of china.
OTH, I don't see a lot of interest in invading countries who do not have citizens with these traits.
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Not saying that- but it's not a "jacket" either as you seemed to be suggesting.
Someone else suggested it might be a tripod.
What? Do you seriously think the CIA and DoD are more powerful than Barbara Streisand?
As a person that is serving, can you confirm that you are allowed to shoot at wounded foes who are not surrendering, not attacking you, and crawling away. (I think that's legal and may even be militarily preferred tho it looks chickenshit and cowardly to open up a 30mm cannon on an unarmed crawling wounded man).
It wasn't an ambulance-- it was an unmarked vehicle.
Is double-tapping against ROE?
I think you need to look at 3:40 to 3:46 again. On a larger monitor.
I can't believe they would execute so many unarmed people because someone near them had a weapon.
But you can see two rifle type weapons easily-- especially as one of the guys turns around and light reflects down the length of one of the weapons.
At 3:44-3:45 as the one on the right turns around you can see it's a thin object, long and rifle like, with a 9"ish long thicker part near the tip.
It does not look like an AK47 (http://www.enemyforces.net/firearms/ak47.jpg) It's too long and skinny.
It's damn long-- 4'? (3:45) with most of it's length in front of where the guy is holding it, yet it is pointing upwards so the longer part is apparently light.
I can't see the handles that most RPG's have tho . (google RPG). This one looks most similar. (http://www.motionpicturearmourer.com/rpg.jpg)
One of the claimed "RPG"'s looked a lot like a camera with a telephoto lens on it to me. It's where the person is leaning out from behind the edge of the building apparently kneeling.
You know- it occurs to me, this video is a lot more apparent to me on a 24" screen than it may be to the pilots on 4" or 6" screens.
It seemed pretty "cowboy", callous, and irresponsible to me.
There was at least one weapon- you can see it clearly. I don't know the rules of engagement at that time, but it looked like an unprovoked and indiscriminate attack by the u.s. helicopter pilots.
Basically they executed 15+ people because one (to a few) people were walking around with weapons.
It also seemed cowardly to shoot on unarmed, crawling, wounded people.
I'd guess that it takes at least a hundred employed people to support one stripper.
If the economy continues to be bad, this will not end well.
Plus- 2 of the 3 strippers I've known were messed up by the work and the 3rd skitters along the edge and may lose it at some point.
A lot of smart people don't smoke cigarettes. And a lot of smart people do smoke pot (and do other drugs).
So the risk/fun is better there as long as you are not in the 5-10% who can't handle it.
I worked in an office full of smart, highly compensated contract programmers who all had stories about doing plenty of coke back in the 80's too.
Plus, commercial cigarettes taste really bad these days.
Have a good $10-$12 cigar (I have one a year- would like to have more and recently bought a pipe). Get one recommended by the humidor. Then you understand why everyone is crazy about tobacco in history. It tastes good. Really good.
I concur with the above "girls who smoke poke" and "girls who poke a lot could be bad wife risks" and "kissing a girl who smokes is like licking an ashtray". Dated one lady (went to vegas with her) and my tongue tingled from the nicotine in her mouth. We had a blast while there but not something for long term.
I recently had a "Sun Tube" (sold at Home Depot and Lowes) installed in my house as an experiment.
They cost about $153. It eliminates the need for a couple 60 watt bulbs and provides the lighting of about 300 watts.
There appears to be no heat gain but I'm sure there is some.
I'm happy with the results-- some people are not. The light is not yellowy like the light we are used to - it's blue white. You look outside the window and it's the same color but somehow it seems different when there isn't a window to compare.
At current prices, I am not sure these would pay off.
It has a "dimmer" door which is run by a solar powered battery as an option for more money.
The android looks a lot more human than "cat lady".
We have one person where i work who looks a bit uncanny- most likely as a result of plastic surgery long ago and now she is older and the illusion is failing.
To me-- it wasn't creepy.
Consider pictures of "real dolls" they look a bit creepy.
This looked like a real person at many angles. I think you would get used to this one in a few days and start interacting with it comfortably.
at a fast food place, a bank, etc.
It's VERY close to a surrogate. The "japanese" robot could be an indian or chinese (or old or unattractive person) working from somewhere else.
Did the designer leave back door access possible?
It's not good for our society for our pyramidal structure to become so extreme.
The top 1% (as of 2007) now take in 2/3 of the income and own 42.7% of the country's wealth. (The top 20% own 93% of the country's wealth).
Just on pure democratic principles- do you really think that's sustainable?
At some point the 80% or the 99% is going to be in enough pain that they are going to take back the wealth. It's happened many times in history.
It can happen peacefully through taxes or it can happen violently.
It's just not practical to increase taxes on the 99% taking in 1/3 of the income.
Now that the top 1% have 2/3 of the income and 42.7% of the wealth (2007), I'm finding it harder and harder to believe that helping the top 1% is helping the rest of the country any more.
And the top 20% have 93% of the wealth. That's right-- 80% of the country shares 7% of the wealth.
At what point does the 80% (or the 99%) say screw the 20% (or the 1%)?
When they start voting. And/or when they stop cutting their own throats and destroying their own jobs over abortion. Hell- Legalize or Ban ABORTION. At least for 10 or 20 years. But OPEN your DAMN eyes and stop letting the corporations and the wealthy starve you and crap down your throats (and I"m talking BOTH republicans AND democrats. Both major parties have been hijacked by 1% of the country!!!)
If you don't open your damn eyes, the wealthy will get control of the military as well and then we are fucked.
And HELL YES I'm pissed off at this point.
The top 1% have gone from 52x the income in 1978 to 354x the income in 2006 while shipping tens of THOUSANDS of jobs overseas.
How many TV's does a top 1% wealthy person buy? 8? 10?
How many cars? 10? 20?
How many houses? 5? 12?
How many TV's, cars, houses, did those 6,000 people the bastard laid off buy before he took a 100,000,000 salary & stock and shipped their jobs to india and china (Microsoft! IBM! Etc.!)
Wake up and vote before things start turning violent.
Oh... and link please?
I would love to see some lists showing that to link and keep for future discussions along these lines.
I would say people eating or driving are extremely distracted when they drop the food or drink, the food or drink leaks, or the top pops off the soda and it spews everywhere.
Likewise, in a fast breaking situation, some are more concerned with controlling the soda or food than the car (wouldn't want to mess up the interior with ketchup after all).
Wow. I rarely have near misses. Under 4 a year.
a) It's people in F-250 pickup trucks or sports cars on the free way going at least 95 (since I'm speeding at 70 and they just whip by me) ...
b) I have no clue but they didn't have a cell phone
c) they were hypnotized... tailgating and had to move fast to avoid rear-ending someone and had no clue who was in other lanes.
z) One time... it was a cell phone person from a side street on residential roads. She pulled out right in front of me== then stopped and stared at me in horror- her cell phone in her right hand- as I slid towards her with the anti-lock brakes humming, foot planted somewhere ahead of my front tires.
I think you should look at a person's activity before accusing them of astroturfing or shilling. The parent poster has a solid varied slashdot activity. Just look at his posts.
Now I suppose Toyota (Microsoft.. etc.) could be paying someone to spend full time on slashdot and normally post their own opinions and jokes but on Company issues always astroturf.
It is harder to get real information any more. A lot of the "news" on local stations is made and released by corporations and used because it's free.
But there exists a chance of simultaneous mass failure. Say... on April 27th at 3pm, all toyota cars begin accelerating and can't be stopped and the brakes are not even activated by pushing the pedal?
That's the problem with computers- they are a multiplier.
And the same goes for having an argument or talking about something emotional to a passenger. People look at each other all the time.
It's a question of how dangerous texting is.
Which means they need some hard counts of how many accidents involve texting specifically.
Is it 100? 200? The article throws around 6,000-- is that it?
Or is it another "all the glaciers will be gone by 2035" factoid?
I've almost T-Boned a person talking on their cell phone who pulled right out in front of me and as I'm smoking the tires to stop they panic and stop instead of continuing onwards.
But that's the only time in my life so far that cell phone usage has been a problem.
I mean- if you really want safe driving, then you put people in single passenger vehicles and don't allow them to eat or drink either.
Lots of living things fail to survive every day.
There is no reason. Success is measured after the facts.
It could be a hundred more years... longer... but intelligent machines are inevitable.
The "1st"?
You speak as if there were Matrix sequels.
As the anonymous person points out... your link starts with a note that they are over 90% the same ethnic group. And most view themselves as the same race.
You run into it all over the place... one example being here:
http://cobb.typepad.com/cobb/2005/01/is_that_what_yo_1.html
"When I pressed him on why he thought that way he finally revealed that because of the racial superiority of the Chinese people, there can never be true equality between a Chinese and non-Chinese and since any deep relationship would require that...there can be no true relationship."
The faster the rest of the world interbreeds with the chinese, the faster this redneck, asian klu klux klan attitude ends.
Yes Please.
And a 500 year life span.
And the ability to perform when I want to, as long as I want to.
And a full head of hair.
And something to get the damn kids off my lawn!
Part of the reason for swallowing Tibet is that anyone with brown skin, epicanthic eyes and black hair is viewed as part of the same group. Even if they are technically in different countries.
Hence why I say it is racial rather than national. However, these tiny countries are really edge cases around the borders of china.
OTH, I don't see a lot of interest in invading countries who do not have citizens with these traits.