9/11 into WTC- Terrorism with military aspects (damage economy of enemy).. For example: If they had flown a 9/11 plane into some random apartment building in NYC that would have been a purely terroristic attack.
9/11 into Pentegon- military attack with civilian casualties/terrorist elements.
9/11 into NSA- again a legitimate military target with the same elements. Note: I thought this one was targeted for the capital building.
The US Cole- Purely military without even terrorist implications.
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They could have avoided the terroristic implications by using cargo planes instead of passenger planes. However, the passenger planes were more plentiful and their schedules and likely fuel capacities were better known.
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The US has launched similar attacks against countries it was at war with that had large civilian casualities as a side effect (breaking dams for example) but they were not terrorist attacks. On the other hand, the firebombing of Dresden was pretty much a terrorism or a "total war" attack by the US (we are no longer going to pull any punches until your side gives up).
--- To be honest in 20/20 hindsite they were a bit stupid. They could have attacked capital hill and taken out a lot of sitting congressmen, senators, and staff from all two branches of government and had more impact than the targets that they chose to hit. Of course, it was also stupid in that a lot of us who were neutral on the subject made permanent decisions based on seeing 7 year olds dancing in the streets happy that random people were dying. 9/11 marks the day that I came to the grim conclusion that the only way out of this in the end is total war followed by appropriate education of the youth so they don't grow up wanting to kill us because we are not human.
Terrorists = those who attack on civilians to induce terror (presumably to induce civilians some kind of change driven by the civilians).
Resistance, Insurgents, Freedom fighters = those who attack military and government units (not 5 year olds).
Nihilists = those who attack civilians really just because they like death and destruction and not because they have any particular goal of any kind in mind.
"Total War" is not really terrorism. You are not trying to induce a civilian population attitude change- you have decided to kill everyone on the other side.
At least a third of the screen time of the first star wars was character conflict between Luke & His parents. Luke & Chewbacca (Yea but blahs don't rip your arm off when they lose). Luke & Han. Luke & Leia. Han & Leia. Darth & The generals. Ben and Darth. Think about how they TALKED even while fighting (unlike the silent wordless fight in SW:-3).
It was all about characters and how they fought with each other.
Everything in the sucky movies was automatic except perhaps in SW : -1 where there were some really good scenes with palpatine and various ciphers. Jar Jar Binks had the best scene in SW: -3 because he ACTUALLY IRRITATED Liam Neelsen and made him show human emotion ("STOP!") by spearing fruit with his tongue.
We knew NOTHING about the other pilots racing against the young darth vador. We saw no ambition to win that might have been a nice seed/foundation for his later corruption. There was no palace intrigue. Almost no character conflict at all. Just various anonymous people doing neat things and fighting on screen.
We are really only losing ground on limited luxury goods.
Here is the important things in life:
To love and be loved in return. To have friends to play with.
Millions of humans through history have been content/very happy living in poverty level conditions compared to today as long as they had those two things.
I don't even know how you got a question out of my clear statement but I'll repeat it.
If Japan is a nicer place to live that it drives up the price of condominiums in Florida beaches, Colorado ski resorts, and Las Vegas and any other LIMITED/SCARCE resource.
BECAUSE China is a better place to live, we are paying $52 a barrel for oil instead of $10 a barrel for oil.
We are in competition for limited/scarce resources every day. Your statement about our incomes being unrelated is illogical and clearly incorrect in many cases.
Your statement is only correct with regard to things for which there is a potentially unlimited supply.
As a topical example: Your neighbor earns $245 and you earn $275. He gets a 12% raise and you get a 2% raise. he now makes about $275 while you make about $280. He goes to the local Toys R US and buys YOUR WII because now he can afford it (before he couldn't). You have to wait 6 to 8 weeks before they get back in stock.
Income is RELATIVE and determines how we distribute limited resources as well as the obvious stuff like paying our bills and forming a nice basis for bartering our time for other people's time and products.
There is only ONE John Singer Seargent "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose" in the world. There is only ONE Di Vinci's, "Mona Lisa" in the world.
There are only FIVE versions of certain misprinted stamps.
There are only FOUR MILLION WII's in the world.
There is only ONE opening show of a movie at Grumman's chinese theatre in the world.
There may only be ONE version of a designer dress in the world ($10,000).
There are only 25 suits made of that batch of insanely fine wool that came on the market a few years ago. Each suit cost over $10,000.
They make less than a thousand copies of certain cars.
There are only 6 "center row, 1st row" seats at a rock concert. Someone is willing to pay $500 to a scalper for them.
There are only a few backstage passes to rock concerts (which you can purchase for about $1200 ONLY if you have a Black card-- that requires that you spend $10,000 per month average to qualify for).
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Get it? Hamburger: No problem. Top Sirloin: Price bid up. Filet: Price bid up even more.
10 people want meat. The one of them that is willing to pay $1 per pound more is going to get the best cut of meat. If one of those people gets a 14% raise while you get a 2% raise, then he is MUCH MORE ABLE to pay that $1 extra and that means you eat hamburger tonight.
Yes and everytime you bought ANY cheap product, you were undercutting other americans.
I'm against artificial barriers. if a movie is $2.49 in china- it should be $2.49 here as well. Only artificial barriers prevent products like that from being reimported back to the US.
The fact is you can't stop it and you probably participated in it yourself.
It's a rough period but hey- 75% of people in Europe died from the plague. I'd rather this than that.
As a reformed libertarian, I strongly support a maximum wage.
Jefferson pictured a nation of mildly wealthy interests competing.
I think a tiny number of super powerful people and corporations is destroying our democracy AND our capitalism.
So I think that the government should have incredibly confiscatory tax levels for every dime past a certain level. Recently, I've thought about 10 million was the most any person should be able to have.
At that point "you win" and can stop playing the game or be prepared to give the rest to the government.
Which cause the cost of a beach front condo or a vacation at Aspen to go up relatively more in price?
(A!)
A. If the US is 110 and Japan is 54, then 110+4 = 114. 54 + 12 = 66. B. If the US is 110 and Japan is 54, then 110+1 = 111. 54 + 6 = 56.
110/54 = 2.03. (US eco/lifestyle roughly 2x japan) A. 114/66 = 1.72. (US eco/lifestyle lost a lot of ground vs Japan) B. 112/55 = 2.036. (US eco/lifestyle roughly 2x japan - gained a little ground to Japan)
In case A, Japan catches up to the US very quickly and the ratio becomes 1.00. The two cost of livings are basically the same- they can afford to buy our beachfront property so that means we have more competition for it and other scarce resources. In case B, Japan slowly loses ground to the US. We have a couple decades before our lifestyles are lowered by foreign competition.
Once demand > supply for any product, case A is a nightmare.
Relative economic strength is why it gets good or bad to travel to other countries.
Even now, it is fixing the problem by causing dramatic pressures on indian compensation (up to 40% in a year). At the current rate, they will make what we make in about 8 years.
Yes it will be a rough 8 years (well more like a rough 4 years- already some companies are withdrawing from offshoring because the savings are not as advertised).
Well can only speak for myself of course but Wii is the first console to interest me ever. No interest in PS3 at all.
I want to play call of duty and *hold* the bloody gun and machine gun vs holding a little gamepad in my hands.
As for your "cons" 1. No HD. Thus similar games will look worse (But they look good enough now unless you are a videophile) 2. Small processor upgrade, thus shorter lifespan (This is likely) 3. Expensive controller (huh? total price is 50% of PS3 and that's selling wii's at a profit while PS3's are already way under cost). 4. Poor sound. (But they sound good enough unless you are an audiophile).
As for the PS3 "Cons", The price is such a big issue that it really needs to be more like 1. Price 2. Price 3. Price
Wii is a *CHEAP* *FUN* console. If I own it for a year and that's it- heck it was fun. PS3 is very expensive. It has less fun factor *purely* because of the controller.
PS3 PLAY games. (really for gamers that want to play games)
Wii LIVE games. (really for people that want to play)
I wasn't trying to contradict you. Most of the developers I actively dislike project management and do not want to move into the role. I happen to like it - and you usually do better at things you like.
I liked being a programmer when I was the hero and not doing 15 hours of paperwork for 5 hours of coding. I enjoyed the "AHA" feeling. The last year I programmed at a major corporation- I did 3 months of programming and 9 months of paperwork, testing, meetings, anything but coding. It was all because of SOX. Very toxic the way it was implemented there.
Yes that's why buildings and bridges never fail either. Especially when not maintained or used in ways they were not planned to be used for in the first place. And never when they were made out of new poorly understood revolutionary materials invented only 24 months previously.
Software is not as strong as bridges unfortunately so it is much harder to make it work under those constraints.
Both structures and software fail when management pushes unrealistic budgets or deadlines.
It seems to help. Esp, when it turns out that the "hard" 10% is really the "impossible" 10%.
Problem with waterfall is you find out those impossible things on the back end after investing 10's of millions.
That being said, I have no experience with projects larger than 10 developers and 20 people total and about 12 months long.
I enjoy being a project manager more than I enjoy being a programmer under the post-sox constraints. PM is about talking to people and solving the scheduling puzzle at my level.
Haven't seen the mythbusters but my concern was more about a 4" hole in the side.
My stepdad was in Korea and told me about living through a hit on one of their planes that sucked a guy right through a hole that wasn't big enough for the guy to fit through. A hole the size of a desk would equalize pressure very quickly.
Maybe they were higher than commercial jets. Maybe he was making it up.
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That doesn't follow.
9/11 into WTC- Terrorism with military aspects (damage economy of enemy)..
For example:
If they had flown a 9/11 plane into some random apartment building in NYC that would have been a purely terroristic attack.
9/11 into Pentegon- military attack with civilian casualties/terrorist elements.
9/11 into NSA- again a legitimate military target with the same elements.
Note: I thought this one was targeted for the capital building.
The US Cole- Purely military without even terrorist implications.
---
They could have avoided the terroristic implications by using cargo planes instead of passenger planes. However, the passenger planes were more plentiful and their schedules and likely fuel capacities were better known.
---
The US has launched similar attacks against countries it was at war with that had large civilian casualities as a side effect (breaking dams for example) but they were not terrorist attacks. On the other hand, the firebombing of Dresden was pretty much a terrorism or a "total war" attack by the US (we are no longer going to pull any punches until your side gives up).
---
To be honest in 20/20 hindsite they were a bit stupid. They could have attacked capital hill and taken out a lot of sitting congressmen, senators, and staff from all two branches of government and had more impact than the targets that they chose to hit. Of course, it was also stupid in that a lot of us who were neutral on the subject made permanent decisions based on seeing 7 year olds dancing in the streets happy that random people were dying. 9/11 marks the day that I came to the grim conclusion that the only way out of this in the end is total war followed by appropriate education of the youth so they don't grow up wanting to kill us because we are not human.
I agree.
Terrorists = those who attack on civilians to induce terror (presumably to induce civilians some kind of change driven by the civilians).
Resistance, Insurgents, Freedom fighters = those who attack military and government units (not 5 year olds).
Nihilists = those who attack civilians really just because they like death and destruction and not because they have any particular goal of any kind in mind.
"Total War" is not really terrorism. You are not trying to induce a civilian population attitude change- you have decided to kill everyone on the other side.
If you have drug related murders then you probably have a lot of drug crimes that you are not seeing.
(Not that i think most drug crimes should exist- I personally think we should legalize them and stop destroying central and south america.)
At least a third of the screen time of the first star wars was character conflict between
Luke & His parents.
Luke & Chewbacca (Yea but blahs don't rip your arm off when they lose).
Luke & Han.
Luke & Leia.
Han & Leia.
Darth & The generals.
Ben and Darth. Think about how they TALKED even while fighting (unlike the silent wordless fight in SW:-3).
It was all about characters and how they fought with each other.
Everything in the sucky movies was automatic except perhaps in SW : -1 where there were some really good scenes with palpatine and various ciphers. Jar Jar Binks had the best scene in SW: -3 because he ACTUALLY IRRITATED Liam Neelsen and made him show human emotion ("STOP!") by spearing fruit with his tongue.
We knew NOTHING about the other pilots racing against the young darth vador. We saw no ambition to win that might have been a nice seed/foundation for his later corruption. There was no palace intrigue. Almost no character conflict at all. Just various anonymous people doing neat things and fighting on screen.
That's what Lucas lost.
Basic Food is incredibly cheap.
We are really only losing ground on limited luxury goods.
Here is the important things in life:
To love and be loved in return.
To have friends to play with.
Millions of humans through history have been content/very happy living in poverty level conditions compared to today as long as they had those two things.
I don't even know how you got a question out of my clear statement but I'll repeat it.
If Japan is a nicer place to live that it drives up the price of condominiums in Florida beaches, Colorado ski resorts, and Las Vegas and any other LIMITED/SCARCE resource.
BECAUSE China is a better place to live, we are paying $52 a barrel for oil instead of $10 a barrel for oil.
We are in competition for limited/scarce resources every day. Your statement about our incomes being unrelated is illogical and clearly incorrect in many cases.
Your statement is only correct with regard to things for which there is a potentially unlimited supply.
As a topical example:
Your neighbor earns $245 and you earn $275.
He gets a 12% raise and you get a 2% raise. he now makes about $275 while you make about $280.
He goes to the local Toys R US and buys YOUR WII because now he can afford it (before he couldn't).
You have to wait 6 to 8 weeks before they get back in stock.
Income is RELATIVE and determines how we distribute limited resources as well as the obvious stuff like paying our bills and forming a nice basis for bartering our time for other people's time and products.
There is only ONE John Singer Seargent "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose" in the world.
There is only ONE Di Vinci's, "Mona Lisa" in the world.
There are only FIVE versions of certain misprinted stamps.
There are only FOUR MILLION WII's in the world.
There is only ONE opening show of a movie at Grumman's chinese theatre in the world.
There may only be ONE version of a designer dress in the world ($10,000).
There are only 25 suits made of that batch of insanely fine wool that came on the market a few years ago. Each suit cost over $10,000.
They make less than a thousand copies of certain cars.
There are only 6 "center row, 1st row" seats at a rock concert. Someone is willing to pay $500 to a scalper for them.
There are only a few backstage passes to rock concerts (which you can purchase for about $1200 ONLY if you have a Black card-- that requires that you spend $10,000 per month average to qualify for).
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Get it?
Hamburger: No problem.
Top Sirloin: Price bid up.
Filet: Price bid up even more.
10 people want meat. The one of them that is willing to pay $1 per pound more is going to get the best cut of meat. If one of those people gets a 14% raise while you get a 2% raise, then he is MUCH MORE ABLE to pay that $1 extra and that means you eat hamburger tonight.
Character conflict.
SW1-3 were about character conflict.
SW-3 to -1 were vapid special effects with no conflict.
It wasn't that they failed to meet expectations. it was that they really did suck.
Yes and everytime you bought ANY cheap product, you were undercutting other americans.
I'm against artificial barriers. if a movie is $2.49 in china- it should be $2.49 here as well. Only artificial barriers prevent products like that from being reimported back to the US.
The fact is you can't stop it and you probably participated in it yourself.
It's a rough period but hey- 75% of people in Europe died from the plague. I'd rather this than that.
As a reformed libertarian, I strongly support a maximum wage.
Jefferson pictured a nation of mildly wealthy interests competing.
I think a tiny number of super powerful people and corporations is destroying our democracy AND our capitalism.
So I think that the government should have incredibly confiscatory tax levels for every dime past a certain level. Recently, I've thought about 10 million was the most any person should be able to have.
At that point "you win" and can stop playing the game or be prepared to give the rest to the government.
Which cause the cost of a beach front condo or a vacation at Aspen to go up relatively more in price?
(A!)
A. If the US is 110 and Japan is 54, then 110+4 = 114. 54 + 12 = 66.
B. If the US is 110 and Japan is 54, then 110+1 = 111. 54 + 6 = 56.
110/54 = 2.03. (US eco/lifestyle roughly 2x japan)
A. 114/66 = 1.72. (US eco/lifestyle lost a lot of ground vs Japan)
B. 112/55 = 2.036. (US eco/lifestyle roughly 2x japan - gained a little ground to Japan)
In case A, Japan catches up to the US very quickly and the ratio becomes 1.00. The two cost of livings are basically the same- they can afford to buy our beachfront property so that means we have more competition for it and other scarce resources.
In case B, Japan slowly loses ground to the US. We have a couple decades before our lifestyles are lowered by foreign competition.
Once demand > supply for any product, case A is a nightmare.
Relative economic strength is why it gets good or bad to travel to other countries.
I believe in capitalism.
Even now, it is fixing the problem by causing dramatic pressures on indian compensation (up to 40% in a year).
At the current rate, they will make what we make in about 8 years.
Yes it will be a rough 8 years (well more like a rough 4 years- already some companies are withdrawing from offshoring because the savings are not as advertised).
I must visit the wrong torrent sites. I don't see a lot of adult material torrents.
And when that creator is a corporation and immortal?
In any case 28 years from first commercial publication (otherwise the life of the creator) is plenty.
Yup.
Deer breed until they have mass die offs for the same reason.
I expect humans will breed to the point that mass conflict or starvation is inevitable.
And everything else (pollution, high production crops, etc. ) are just putting the problem off and making it worse.
The Xbox is too expensive.
It only seems cheap when you compare it to the PS3.
$200 is a good price for a console. That's like 20 movie outings.
Well can only speak for myself of course but Wii is the first console to interest me ever.
No interest in PS3 at all.
I want to play call of duty and *hold* the bloody gun and machine gun vs holding a little gamepad in my hands.
As for your "cons"
1. No HD. Thus similar games will look worse (But they look good enough now unless you are a videophile)
2. Small processor upgrade, thus shorter lifespan (This is likely)
3. Expensive controller (huh? total price is 50% of PS3 and that's selling wii's at a profit while PS3's are already way under cost).
4. Poor sound. (But they sound good enough unless you are an audiophile).
As for the PS3 "Cons", The price is such a big issue that it really needs to be more like
1. Price
2. Price
3. Price
Wii is a *CHEAP* *FUN* console. If I own it for a year and that's it- heck it was fun.
PS3 is very expensive. It has less fun factor *purely* because of the controller.
PS3
PLAY games. (really for gamers that want to play games)
Wii
LIVE games. (really for people that want to play)
Tell you what.
You go check ebay (which we can all do) and look at the relative premiums for the two systems.
PS3's are not moving.
I have yet to ask for a wii and not be offered a ps3 (usually kinda weakly like they expect a "no").
There is explosive decompression and then there is putting a bullet through the wing (fuel) and the engine below it.
My point is that all bullets eventually stop in something. Even if it is just the ground 4 miles below the plane.
As a result of casual copyright infringement late last year, I went to a new band's concert and bought two T-shirts off their web site.
Jewelry sells for more than raw gold.
I wasn't trying to contradict you. Most of the developers I actively dislike project management and do not want to move into the role. I happen to like it - and you usually do better at things you like.
I liked being a programmer when I was the hero and not doing 15 hours of paperwork for 5 hours of coding. I enjoyed the "AHA" feeling. The last year I programmed at a major corporation- I did 3 months of programming and 9 months of paperwork, testing, meetings, anything but coding. It was all because of SOX. Very toxic the way it was implemented there.
Yes that's why buildings and bridges never fail either. Especially when not maintained or used in ways they were not planned to be used for in the first place. And never when they were made out of new poorly understood revolutionary materials invented only 24 months previously.
Software is not as strong as bridges unfortunately so it is much harder to make it work under those constraints.
Both structures and software fail when management pushes unrealistic budgets or deadlines.
We use RUP and try to put the hard 10% first.
It seems to help. Esp, when it turns out that the "hard" 10% is really the "impossible" 10%.
Problem with waterfall is you find out those impossible things on the back end after investing 10's of millions.
That being said, I have no experience with projects larger than 10 developers and 20 people total and about 12 months long.
I enjoy being a project manager more than I enjoy being a programmer under the post-sox constraints. PM is about talking to people and solving the scheduling puzzle at my level.
Haven't seen the mythbusters but my concern was more about a 4" hole in the side.
My stepdad was in Korea and told me about living through a hit on one of their planes that sucked a guy right through a hole that wasn't big enough for the guy to fit through. A hole the size of a desk would equalize pressure very quickly.
Maybe they were higher than commercial jets. Maybe he was making it up.