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It seems to me the best way to solve the Iraqi situation is to hold fast in Iraq for another 6-8 months. They are going to have to anyways, so might as well suck it up, put some reinforcements in there, and shore up their losses for the short-term.
At the same time, they should continue their police/army recruiting in Iraq, but instead of keeping them centralized in their training camps in Iraq, export the trainees to a neighbouring country for all their training (think the clones from starwars) If they can't smuggle in explosives, they will have a lot harder time disrupting training/graduating. At the same time they are training their new army/police force, they should setup serious military support/defenses around the police stations and build them like fortresses.
Then, in 6-8 months when they have a fully trained army of a few thousand Iraqis they bring them back into the country, install them into their new fortresses, and pullout.

Just a preliminary idea here.
Brain is built with massive redundancies right? For those of you who don't know, it is. Anyway, create a small device that will continue to pump small amounts of blood across the surface of the brain just inside the skull in case of heart failure. Couple of lithium ion batteries in a small device implanted in your chest, kinda like a pacemaker, cept its a small pump waiting for your heart to fail, then it kicks in and supplies blood to your brain for a while. Since this blood needs to be oxygenated, may need to have some sort of tracheal connection, low enough you would never feel it, but high enough to be propped open by the throat. Gettin ahead of myself here, anyhow, think about it, lemme know.

-walt

You know, the Nazis had pieces of framework that they made the Jews download.

This was a reference to the .net framework btw.

Has anyone else noticed the funeral scene in the commercial and how 80% of the scenes shown don't have Patrick Stewert in them?

Someone needs to make a plugin for the Google Homepage that connects to your gmail for storage space, and holds mp3's. You know, just a playlist you upload, I think there's a couple gigs of space in there, little app that lets you use that space for mp3 storage, and interfaces with the google homepage to let you access/play them from wherever you are.

So Morgellons disease sucks. It feels like theres bug's crawling under your skin, you sweat sticky balls of tar, you develop lesions that never heal, and then the weird shit starts happening. Apparently people grow fibres out of these wounds, but not all the time, sometimes the wounds release spores. Seems to be something of an outbreak of this in Southern Texas.

So there's an article on /. right now about the NSA's spying habits. I'm sure most of you have read it by now, but to paraphrase, the NSA reported back in December that it was recording international calls. Today, an employee at the NSA says that actually, it's just all the calls ever made in/to/from the USA. This is GROSSLY illegal, I mean, besides the fact that it's in their constitution and whatnot, the president just says its necessary to continue the war on terror.
For one, Congress never actually declared war on anyone, which is required for them to keep troops deployed on a presidential order longer than 90 days. Two, these laws that they keep saying exist for war-time measures may or maynot actually exist since they are classified.
After an investigation was launched by the Justice Department back in December into the wire tapping, the NSA refused to give them security clearance to access the records, and because of a lack of evidence, the case was dismissed!
WTF! The government commits a crime, lies about it repeatedly, and then when another branch of the government goes to investigate it, it just shuts down the investigation.


"By the most brutal methods of terrorism, a regime sought to maintain an existence that was condemned by the overwhelming majority of its people...I have tried to persuade the responsible authorities that it is impossible for a great nation, because it is unworthy of it, to stand by and watch millions belonging to a great, an ancient civilized people be denied rights by their government... I have endeavoured to find some way to alleviate a tragic fate. One agreement was signed only to be broken. I then tried a second time to bring about an understanding. A few weeks later, we were forced to the conclusion that the government [of Austria] had no intention of carrying out this agreement in the spirit that had inspired it, but in order to create an excuse. I have determined, therefore, to place the help of our country at the service of these millions. Since this morning, our soldiers are on the march across all of Austria's frontiers."

-- Adolf Hitler, March 12, 1938, justifying the German invasion of Austria.

"We have no interest in oppressing other people. We are not moved by hatred against any other nation. We bear no grudge. I know how grave a thing war is. I wanted to spare our people such an evil. It is not so much the country [of Czechoslovakia]; it is rather its leader [Dr. Edward Benes]. He has led a reign of terror. He has hurled countless people into the profoundest misery. Through his continuous terrorism, he has succeeded in reducing millions of his people to silence. The Czech maintenance of a tremendous military arsenal can only be regarded as a focus of danger. We have displayed a truly unexampled patience, but I am no longer willing to remain inactive while this madman ill-treats millions of human beings."

-- Adolf Hitler, April 14, 1939, justifying the German invasion of Czechoslovakia.

"The wave of appalling terrorism against the [minority] inhabitants of Poland, and the atrocities that have been taking place in that country are terrible for the victims, but intolerable for a Great Power which has been expected to remain a passive onlooker. We will not continue to tolerate the persecution of the minority, the killing of many, and their forcible removal under the most cruel conditions. I see no way by which I can induce the government of Poland to adopt a peaceful solution. But I should despair of any honourable future for my own people if we were not, in one way or another, to solve this question."

-- Adolf Hitler, August 23, 1939, justifying the German invasion of Poland.


edit. I saw a stat somewhere that said in the last decade in the USA, 4 million people have died from smoking related illness' 400,000 have died from car accidents, and 4000 have been killed in terrorism related activities. And yet more has been spent on the war on terror than the transportation and public health systems combined.

Also something I heard today, Halliburton is getting all it's contracts as 'no bid' which means as it sounds, nobody bidding against you. That means they can charge the Iraq government anything it wants to rebuild whatever it rebuilds. And since the money Iraq has comes from aide money from the US, it's really just bush/dick handing US taxpayer money over to dick's company.

The universe by and large is empty, we can look and look and look and very likely never see anything or anyone intelligent. But what if we are looking in the wrong place? String theory predicts 11 dimensions, we only occupy 3 or 4 depending on who/what you talk to, what if alternate life forms are all around us? Here on Earth, over on Mars, all over the place, but we just can't observe them because we don't have the know-how to observe these dimensions.

That may be intentional though, from what we know of our reality on the quantum scale (where shit gets weird) merely observing something alters it, functionally destroys possibilities, an unobserved object exists in every possible state until we observe it. At that point the waveform collapses down to our 4-dimensional version of it. See 'Schrodingers Cat' or how light behaves on the quantum level for more information on that. So what if other forms of life exist in those multiple states? Spread across all 11 dimensions, or just across a couple, whenever we would look at them, they would be forever reduced to the simple state we see them in. It would be like taking a person, and stripping off a dimension or two from them, no depth, width, height, that sort of thing. Maybe some advanced cultures that live in those places noticed what we do to our own reality and cut us off from them permenantly?

I've been saying for years now that there's a huge hole in the technology tree. It's like we're missing a basic fundamental of science. I couldn't figure out which branch of science it was, seeing as you tend to think that all the main branches of science are known and understood. You know the stuff I'm talking about us missing, antigravity machines, force fields, 'phasors' so to speak.
I was doing some reading today and it kinda came to me, high-power science, if you have enough energy available in a small enough area you can feasibly do anything. The problem is that the only ways we know of getting power are extremely inefficient for high-energy work, nuclear power is about the best we can do and that is still waaay to big for portable devices. So what we're missing here is energy right? If it was free, so to speak, we could add more and more 'free' energy generators together, and following the law of accelerating returns, within a few decades we would have the quadcore cpu equivelant of portable high energy devices (think portable force fields.) So the problem is now brought down to getting free energy. Now this might seem conspiracy theoristish, but I imagine that the people that tend to fund energy research projects tend to stay away from the free energy research programs, as their interests lay in getting returns on their investments. So we don't have free energy because it's not profitable, and more than likely would cause some serious injury to the world energy market (can't sell something you can get for free, then again... water.) Those problems aside, free energy for all would vastly increase our abilities as a civilization in all areas of life from exploration to starvation to disarmament. The current electromagnetic model is wrong, it is incomplete and has errors. Everything has mass, mass is energy, everything has energy and everything is energy. We just need to figure out how to tap into that free energy. I'm pretty sure it's zero point energy, and I'm going to start doing some indepth research, maybe some experiments, if I disappear, assume it was political.


-w

First off, this kid: http://www.break.com/top_rated/patiencechild.html
needs some ritalin or something.
Second off, Rome was an empire and it collapsed, the USA is an empire and is in the process of a collapse.
Third, fibreglass is itchy. I started making my custom-fit sub/amp box last night, took two hours to lay down the first layer and I used about 6x as much as I thought I would. Bottom line being, if you need to do a lot of fibreglass work, don't goto a big box store for your supplies, goto a marine shop. Also, latex gloves, long sleeves, and a respirator are really really really required. If you do get some fibreglass on you, don't wash it with hot water, that'll open up the pores and you will be one sorry s.o.b. instead, use cold water and only brush downwards, this will close your pores tight and draw the material out.

I might start an invention blurb in here, most of my ideas come and go, in fact almost all of them have gone, so I'm going to journalize them here.