663 Forum Posts by "Raptorman"
At 8/14/06 10:21 PM, RedScorpion wrote: THE CEASEFIRE HAS NOT BEEN BROKEN.
Link.
"Highlighting the fragility of the peace, Hezbollah guerrillas fired at least 10 Katyusha rockets that landed in southern Lebanon early Tuesday, the Israeli army said, adding that nobody was injured. The army said that none of the rockets, which were fired over a two-hour period, had crossed the border and so it had not responded."
Geez, people.
Damn, I know people that can't hit the broud side of a barn but how in the hell do you miss a whole country?
At 8/14/06 09:57 PM, AtomicTerrorist wrote: You are a fucking retard and dont post if you have no fucking clue to what is going on except what the fucking jewish tv stations tell you
Mel,...... MEL, put down that bottle, you've had enough.
At 7/25/06 11:15 AM, Der_Pandar wrote:
The reason everyone is freaking out is because this is the first operational test of a fusion reactor like this.
Nah, a lot of people have been toying with this method for a long time, who knows, maybe they can get it to work.
Also, what is the criteria for success? I could not find it anywhere in the article. I mean, something is obviously going to happen; what is it they want to happen?
A sustained reaction that releases more energy than is required to maintain it. A worst case scenorio of failure would be a catastrophic containment faliure. While this sounds plenty bad it would actually just break thier toy and vent some plasma into the air where it would flash cool in a few thousnaths of a second with virutally no threat to anyone not in the immediate area.
The cleanlyness of fusion reactions is one of the reasons that it is considered to be a holy grail of energy production.
Sometimes things are not negotiable.
http://www.coxandfor..archives/000877.html
Give 'em Hell.
At 6/30/06 03:54 PM, Elfer wrote:At 6/29/06 04:14 PM, SEXY_FETUS wrote: READ IT. It doesn't say he can't it just says he need congress approval before a military tribunal. A republican majority congress. And let me just say that they're getting off easy, according to geneva convention any soldier without a uniform is considered a spy and can be shot.Right, except technically, they're not really soldiers because they're not in the military?
As the man said, read the Supreme Court decision, then read the Geneva conventions. The violation of the conventions is the opinion of one Justice. In a concurring opinion signed by the 4 other Justices that formed the majority, found that the manner in which the tribunal were set up was objectionable and that Congress should been consulted. The Geneva Conventions were never mentioned, as anyone who is literate can tell that the Conventions specifically dis-include people such as Hamdan.
The US does plenty of stuff to abuse human rights any which way they want. For example, look up the term "Enemy prisoner of war."
I think the term that you are looking for is "unlawful combatant". It is used because 'prisoner of war' does not apply.
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/91.htm
http://en.wikipedia...i/Hamdan_v._Rumsfeld
At 6/24/06 04:44 AM, JudgeMeHarshX wrote: The Supreme Court also has shown that private development that spurs economic growth meets the qualification of serving a public purpose in line with the 5th.
Which I believe was one of the justifications for the infamous Kelo ruling. However, nothing in the Court ruling requires that this justification ever be used.
I just realized that my example above was a bad one but for a reason that in no way effect it's comparison to eminent domain policy.
At 6/23/06 09:42 PM, fli wrote:
However, Bush's actions are of concern.
Sure, he gave people more rights... but he's doing this while underminding the Balance of Powers.
No, The eminent Domain case greatly expanded the ability of state, local, and Federal governments to seize property. President Bush is simply directing the units of government under his direct supervision to not exercise this expanded power. This order does not affect any local or state government and therefore does not exceed his power and dose not conflict with the Supreme Court.
There is a big difference between refusing to use an optional power and defying using an ordered one. To use a silly example, if the Supreme Court ordered that all government employees may do jumping jacks in the morning and President Bush ordered his employees not to do so there would be no conflict. However, if the Supreme Court ordered that all government employees must do jumping jacks in the morning and Bush refused to allow his employees to do so, there would be a conflict.
At 6/23/06 02:39 PM, Popsticle wrote: I was just thinking, what would you do if you were God?
Well let's see, I would create the heavens and the Earth. Then I would put land and oceans all over the place. Then I would make some critters to run around the place. After that I would make people. This would take me about 6 days so on the 7th I would drink beer and watch ESPN.
Now I would have some fun with my new toy and give the supposedly smart critters (people) a impossibly conflicting set of instructions and tell them I'll make life suck for them if they don't follow them. After they failed following my instruction I would pretend to be all wrathful like and scatter them all over the place and screw around with their looks and languages.
OK, so now I've got everyone not talking or even liking each other I'll really subtly give a few of them a few hints on what I want them to do. I'll spread these hints out far enough in location and time that there is no why that these groups of "true" believer will ever figure out what it is exactly that I want. What I really want is for them to dance around like a bunch of monkeys with guns but telling someone to dance around like a monkey with a gun really kills the whole all knowing and compassionate thing. They gotta believe that else they may figure out that I'm really just fucking with them.
I'll then watch the monkey dance and occasionally screw with stuff just to shake things up. After a while I would get bored and go back to drinking beer and watching ESPN.
It's a good thing I'm not God.
No, what is crazy is that two US newspapers would see fit to investigate and to print the detail of what is by their own admission a perfectly legal and effective method of tracing terrorist funding routes. They are dong our enemies' legwork for them and could cause considerable damage to our ability to cut funding off from terrorists. This is unscrupulous at best and seditious at worst.
At 6/22/06 11:27 AM, SIMPLYB wrote: Even Faux news says no WMD.
I think it best to withhold judgment for now. Better to be silent and be thought a fool, sort of thing.
At 6/22/06 06:32 AM, Kenzu wrote:At 6/22/06 02:46 AM, sdhonda wrote:
Anywho, I find it stupid and appaling how people sell and buy clothing with his face on it. So hypocritical.....exactly.
Instead they should buy clothes with red stars, hammers and sicles, and CCCP on it!
So that it's more obvious!
I find it ironic and pleasing when capitalist sell communist icons for profit. Quite sumbolic...
Oh, and for added fun, translate 'Kos' from Persian to English. It is very fitting.
While it is true that at their worst, blogs allow any self important twit to sound off his uninformed opinions and can be an echo chamber for preaching to the choir, at their best they are a very democratic and vibrant idea farms. The works of people like Bill Whittle and Steven Den Beste stand as some of the best essays that have come from the masses. Works like their's would not be possible without the blog. Also, blogs exposed such things as the fake Bush National Guard memo, the plagiarism of Ben Donmench, and the CAIR lies about the 'Hadji girl' video even though these storys were all swallowed by the MSM.
Much like this political BBS, the blogs follow the '98% of everything is crap' rule. It is incumbent upon the reader to sort the fact from the rubble and as an added bonus, people who read then will be less likely to take what they read in the papers at face value. While most blogs are useless, they serve a valuable function and simply refusing to read them because of their shortcomings would be like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
At 6/19/06 08:58 PM, JudgeMeHarshX wrote: The only thing more mind-dulling than Kossacks are the Free Republic posters.
Ever read the DU? They make the KOS kids look like geniuses.
Number one bestseller in the country. I don't even like her (too polemic for my taste) but I love the way she plays those fools.
You forget that there are many of us our veterans and a few of us are combat vetrans. I think I can speak for all of us when I say.
You. Know. Nothing. About. Tactics.
Is that clear enough?
Need I point out that showing that a state with a higher average education level votes differently than a state with a lower average education level does not mean that the people who voted one way or the other have a differing education level. There are for to many overriding factors to attribute this to any one thing. Correlation does not equal causality.
At 6/13/06 04:12 AM, FAB0L0US wrote: Here, everyone, I have a suggestion.
DONT TAKE BEGONER SERIOUSLY!!!
The kid is an idiot if he actually believes the crap he says. I am far over being pissed at anything he says.
I think you are right. I think he is just being obtuse and baiting us. That means I'm a fool for jumping at the bait. He may also just be a fool, which means I'm a fool for arguing with him. Either way I don't like the outcome.
At 6/12/06 08:15 PM, Begoner wrote: Really? What would be so hard about just going in there with soldiers and solely apprehending Zarqawi (and giving him a fair trial, I might add) instead of just bombing the shit out of his house, killing him and everybody inside it.
He had the poor man's radar, he paid kids with cells phones to cover the area around him and call at the first sign of abnormal activity. Hence he was always able to bugger off.:
I'm not arguing that there is any parallel between the number of casualties -- only that the slaughtering of two innocent people in cold blood cannot be justified, just as 9/11 cannot be justified.
It would be even more unjustified to allow one who is responsible for the deaths of hundreds or possibly thousands to escape because we were squeamish about hitting a couple of people. We chose the lesser of two evils.
Not really, for multiple reasons. First of all, bombs aren't that expensive and are produced by the selfsame companies which are greatly profiting from the war in the first place.
Are you saying that the decision by some spec ops Colonel was based not on military feasibility, but on wanting to make his brother-in-law's stock portfolio go up by 1/4 cent. Not very damn likely.
Whaaaa! The agony of delete!
My very long and in depth rebuttal to Fab was just killed at the touch of a wrong button so I'll give you the bullet points.
Nobody gets 'free' service everyone either pays a telecom directly or pays an ISP who in turn pays a telecom.
Both sides want regulation. One side wants regulation changes that allow them to prioritize packets.
This sounds ok but leaves the market vulnerable to artificial throughput depression in order to force people to pay for premium service.
This will not solve last mile problems. The large cost involved dictate last mile conditions, not internet regulation.
Poor business decisions and planning put the telecoms in their current straits not any inherent inprofitability of the industry.
I'll flesh this out more later if the motivation returns to me.
At 6/12/06 07:39 PM, Begoner wrote: While we're at it, let's abolish all concecpt of "innocent" and "guilty" and indiscriminately murder everybody's who is related to a murderer. That'll teach them a lesson.
Nice hyperbole, as much as we would have loved to be able to run in there, grab him and save poor little wifey we couldn't. We tried a few times and the bastard always was able to bugger off and kill some more people, many of whom were far less culpable then his wife. So, by hard calculation, if in killing him it would take his wife and kid out as whole save more lives, it becomes a simple choice.
I'm sure bin Laden was justified in 9/11 because it was the fault of the US citizens working in the WTC for "rolling" with a "terrorist" state that commits war crimes and sells information about WMDs to countries like Iran.
Oh our crimes were the far more heinous ones of not thinking Israel should be pushed into the ocean and thinking that the house of Saud may not be the worst thing that has ever happened to Saudi Arabia. (We may very well be wrong on that last one.) So yeah, the logical way to counter political decisions is to slaughter thousands of people that were not even in government or had any real influence over it. We killed only 6 and 4 of those bastards had it coming, being, ya know, terrorists.
and if you run off about Iraqi civilians killed in Iraq I am going to reach through this computer and slap you for being either dumb or deliberately obtuse.
At 6/12/06 07:24 PM, FAB0L0US wrote: The kid is unfortunate, he had no choice in any of the situations. But, like I said, shit happens when you roll with terrorists and thugs.
Hey I feel sorry for the wife too. Seeing as how she was all of 13 and probably had never had any say over anything in her life when her family passed her off to a infamous 37 year old terrorist.
But to paraphrse what you said "When you sleep with pigs........"
A few days ago 40 year old Zarqawi was killed along with his 16 year old wife and 18 month old son. Assuming a standard 9 month gestation period took place, that would mean that a 37-38 year old Zarqawi knocked up a 13-14 year old girl. I guess he really did wish to be like his prophet.
Religion of Peace or Religion of Pederasty?
Oh, and this is from someone who until recently, worked in the telecom field. We all knew that the bean counters up top were fucking us and themselves. Now after canning us they want Federal regulations to bail themselves out before the market kills there precious jobs as well. So, yes, I am less then sympathetic to Mr. Whittington's plight.
At 6/12/06 03:43 AM, FAB0L0US wrote: “Now what they would like to do is use my pipes free, but I ain't going to let them do that,” Edward Whitacre, CEO of SBC Telecommunications was recently replied to a question in an interview. And let me be the first to say it, damn. That is harsh. But wait, is there more?
The easy answer is "Whether it is by direct pay from a corporation or ISP, or indirect pay in the form of transport exchange agreements, your are getting paid for everything that goes down your pipes. Your own incompetency and piss poor ability to regulate yourselves have lead to your anemic growth. You simply want to effectively be able to charge people twice for the same bandwidth. Cry me a river asshole."
There are a lot of good things in the COPE act but Edward Whitacre's crying is not a compelling reason for us to change anything.
At 6/11/06 06:58 AM, ReiperX wrote: I've been thru PMO training when I was fapped out to it, they let us shoot on a range. And then they made us run 3 miles and then shoot on the range again. I almost had a perfect score the first time, second time my score was very low.
We went through something similar to that but with push ups, buzzers, sirens, and flashing lights involved. It's amazing how even that level of tension will really destroy your aim. Shooting is definitely something best done calm. Ironically, this is the state that you are least likely to be in if you need to shoot someone.
Although I question the lack of motivation and dedication the you subscribe to LEOs you do address a real problem of poor marksmanship common amonst them. The problem is not a deficiency in firearms training, it is a difficulty in combat training. Anybody can put holes in a silhouette on a range, but get someone shooting back at you and things can get down right difficult.
The military uses several methods to train your 'lizard brain'; your subconscious and reflexes into using good technique when your adrenalin is set to armeggedon and your brain is screaming in survivor mode. Problem is, you can only train your 'lizard brain' to act one way and that is the way you will react under extreme pressure. While it is perfectly acceptable (nay advisable) for a solider to drop to the ground and start shooting at the first sign of a threat, this would not be good for a police officer. This is why soldiers make bad cops and vice versa.
Remember also, even with better equipment and training the military misses, a lot. You will hear on a news report that they took out 15 insurgents, what you don't hear is that they expended 5000 rounds in doing so. Here is a perfect example of how fucked up things are in a firefight. Remember the major players in this story are all experienced combat soldiers, not a beat cop who has pulled his sidearm in the line of duty for the first time.
She shells Shia by the seashore.
