2009-12-17, 23:45 | Link #5101 | |
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He needs to give a better reason on why it is necessary to deny citizenship than that, IMHO. An extension of the "granting of citizenship" rule used by the French Foreign Legion to determine if a candidate is of quality would be better, I feel. You want productive and capable people who can and will contribute to society.
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2009-12-18, 00:02 | Link #5102 |
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I don't believe this is racism. A culture that requires that one gender cover up completely is at odds with a another that believes in equality and letting people have the freedom to choose what to where. Never mind that obscuring one's identity is an obvious security risk. Given the infamous laws and practices in Middle Eastern countries, the French have a legitimate reason to protect their own secular culture.
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2009-12-18, 01:16 | Link #5103 | |
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Remember the old news that a Predator drone that wasn't responding to commands? I think the whole system has already been hacked.
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2009-12-18, 02:12 | Link #5104 | |
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From what little I know about the Predators... The RAW video was broadcast out from the aircraft as an open source feed. It was a downlink ONLY, meaning a person can only receive the signal. 0% chance of sending anything back on that feed into the aircraft. All flight control feeds are sent and received via either satellite link, or UHF radio link, and those are secured by a 256bit data encryption algorithm in addition to the specialized crypto equipment that the 256bit algorithm is loaded into. The crypto gear takes that 256bit algorithm and further scrabbles it. Now before anyone says, "Well they could get their hands on the equipment and codes." military crypto gear and codes are a controlled items that are required to be inventoried at a minimum once every 24 hours. Also those codes require 2 people to be present when removed from the safe to load into the crypto, and both people have to sign off on the inventory sheet as having removed those codes and returning them. The physical security for those types of things is pretty damn high for the obvious reason. That being said, the terrorists and rouge states can get all the equipment they want to try and hack into those data links but unless they have the specific crypto gear used on the aircraft programed to the same specifications plus the 256bit code key, they've got nothing but a pile of high end electronic hardware. Even if they had just one piece of the puzzle, it gets them nowhere, and those codes change all the time so even if they were able to break the 256 bit code, by the time they figured it out, the code is no longer being used. |
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2009-12-18, 02:46 | Link #5105 | |
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Thus, gassing was declared "inhumane" under the U.S. Constitution's provisions against cruel and unusual punishment. All jurisdictions where the death penalty is practiced have switched to lethal injection as the primary mode of capital punishment, and we already know that has it's own problems. |
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2009-12-18, 02:55 | Link #5106 | |
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I think in an evironment with asymetric warfare (and vast amounts of space and possible hideout places), the unmanned (little) drones are the most useful tools when it comes to recon and covered target engagement (assassination operations).
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2009-12-18, 03:10 | Link #5107 | |
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2009-12-18, 08:16 | Link #5108 | |
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I suppose they're right that it was probably Neo-Nazis who did this... or perhaps they have the intention of selling it to Neo-Nazis? It's a pretty pathetic thing to do.
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2009-12-18, 08:37 | Link #5109 | |
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2009-12-18, 08:52 | Link #5110 | |
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I guess the people who stole it may well be intending to keep it for themselves. There sure are many strange people in this world.
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2009-12-18, 09:08 | Link #5111 |
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There is already a consolidation of them over here (though not exactly kleptomaniacs) if you haven't noticed. I guarantee 99%, if not 100% of the regulars here belong to that category*.
* - Inclusive of the site staff and admin
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2009-12-18, 09:55 | Link #5112 | |
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Wonder how that estate's postman got around. Eventually LTA auctioned the rest and proceeds went to charity. |
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2009-12-18, 12:04 | Link #5113 | |
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2009-12-18, 16:02 | Link #5114 | |
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Yet another example of "large corporation buys small profitable brand and proceeds to destroy everything that made it work and then discard the carcass". No one seems to be able to explain how this benefits the economy and community... only that the executives that made the decisions leading to these trainwrecks get their bonuses and loot anyway.
oh... and leaves thousands of workers spinning in the dust.... http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/19/bu...er=rss&emc=rss Quote:
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2009-12-18, 18:41 | Link #5115 |
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From little i know about auto industry/history, Saab already knew their car business was unprofitable by the late 1980s when they split the company into the heavy truck business (which is profitable) and the car business (which has not been profitable). Volvo was split the same way (and now Ford is stuck with that unprofitable car business).
GM was kinda dumb enough to come in and buy Saab Automobiles believing they could turn it around into an asset. Buying Saab was GM's huge mistake (kinda like founding Saturn, etc). They did absolutely everything they could to make Saab efficient, reliable and profitable. It failed, every Saab product failed, the company completely failed. Nothing about the parts Saab used from GM were subpar compared to when the company was independent. Everything was a vast, vast improvement. If Saab (and Volvo for that matter) had valid business cases and had any hope at all the Swedish government or EU would step in to preserve them. But they don't and the governments realize that all these companies would be are permanent wokers charities. It was apparent to me and objective industry observers years ago that Saab was a basket case that GM was wasting their time with. No different than Saturn and Pontiac (or Mercury). |
2009-12-18, 20:49 | Link #5116 | |
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2009-12-19, 00:13 | Link #5118 | |
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Climate Pact Falls Short
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2009-12-19, 00:29 | Link #5119 | |
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