Art - I had your viewpoint for quite a while and to some extent still do, yet I was forced after some serious thought to consider if the American response had not actually augmented relations between the countries; for it drew out a statement from Rice condemning torture and saying it would not...
A fair point but one must also consider that numerous immmoderate years have passed since the dawning of the nuclear age in Pakistan and India - we have had a massive polarisation in the world between the East and the West, tensions on both sides are extremely high and a very fine balance has...
I was speaking with the Head of the UK branch of a charity who deals with poverty and he gave poverty in these terms.
In Britain, the brink of disaster is being homeless with no means to uspport your self. Destitution is when you cannot feed yourself in a bed sit. Poverty is when you cannot...
After the Cuban Missile Crisis JFK said
"We no longer live in a world where only the actual firing of weapons represents a sufficient challenge to a nation's security to constitute maximum peril. Nuclear weapons are so destructive and ballistic missiles are so swift, that any substantially...
No, the Russian Government, made a baseless claim that the Ukrainian's had been stealing gas from the Russian pipeline that feeds a large amount of Europe.
So, the Russian's cut off the gas supply for three days on January 1st until the Ukrainian Gov't agreed to double the amount they paid...
Modern constitutional theory is incredibly interesting. Let us consider the case when a country has just gone through a revolution, and in most revolutions the insurgency has a head figure. Once power has been won by these insurgents, if they choose to affect widescale reform of the government's...
Russian aggression was about their cutting of the gas pipe lines to the rest of Europe, and demanding an increase (disproportionately) from its former satellite Ukraine
and yes no confidance - will amend 1st post
Following the Ukranian vs. Russian oil stand off last week, 250 of the Ukrainian's 450 deputies have put their names to a vote of non confidance in the government, who have agreed to double their payment to Russia.
Does this sound like anyone to a state standing up to Russian aggression in...
Can i ask what do people think about women heads of state (such as Rice/Clinton would be) and relations with strictly Islamic states who practise fundamentalist shia law?
My brain clearly disengaged and crumbled you are correct I am wrong, show me the hole to crawl into!
I meant 'Crisis de los Misiles' - and this was a slightly major nuke issue (42 if I'm correct)!
Sorry again
I've used/seen used both of the LCD projectors and smartboards.
Smartboards, I feel, are very good in some subjects, such as chemistry where a member of faculty can go through a sheet of theory on the smartboard and save all of the lessons additional explanation notes onto that sheet as...
Hmmmm
Iran/generic non westernised state seen to have a right leaning, islamic, government, can never be allowed to have nuclear weapons.
This is the view of most western governments, especially the US. Ever since the Bay of Pigs fiasco where the US/USSR came so close to instigating nuclear...
Now now we know everything has an explanation
No we haven't however I doubt that such lengths would be gone to. My interpretation of the trick is that the first is acomplished by palming and probably a bit of magnetism (his ring?!)
The second is a 'set' table, a table with a hole, the...
No i was thinking about that and I realized that a non-newt or form etc wouldn't work as objects (including his arm) rest on the table - and the table does not deform also a foam would not work as it would not have the transparent and refldective properties required
And with the salt shaker, note how he hides the emergence point - there is a hole in the table most likely, his choice of table is NOT random - note the lighting (very bright for an underground bar!) and in particular with the salt shaker trick he covers up over half of the table - I'm guessing...
Watch his hands, the one under the table does not move until the coin is produced and after the coin has 'disappeared' from the top of the table the hand above the table does no move. Thus I think it is fair to say that he hides the coin (he chooses a small one on purpose) and hides it between...
Playing devisl advocate and not for one moment saying this is my view point or not, however :
People will bulk buy long lasting foods! Will not go to foreign competitors - take freedom fries as an example.
I was mainly referring to the first Gulf conflict where the Iraqi people, who had begun to throw off the shakckles of oppression, were let down by the US. And also Afghanistan.
The most important words in that quote are 'fear of'. The apparent evils and dangers of something are what matters...
SOS - the destruction of a country's infratructure to the point that foreign troops are needed is an issue that crosses all partisan boundaries, and 'cut and run' is the US most loved strategy I beleived.
THat is not the point, I proposed that as human nature is a constant across humanity the development of asociety cannot be put squarely at its door, it is rather that the factors I outlined previously efect devlopment
NS
"If you leave me now, you take away the very heart of me"
Iraq has lost nigh on all of its professionals and intellectuals with the outbreak of war and the following insurgency. This has led to doctors, engineers, pharmicuticals and other key people running from Iraq like Colin Jackson (a...
Here's a question for you, when a country institutes a policy of isolationsim, either for the economic benefits or other reasons, is it bound to use that principle across the board, without individual case analysis. For example, if a fictional country 'Polin' declares a policy of isolationsim...
Thus the argument becomes what tends man towards one form of order and organisation or another. For example, why are there matriacal systems in the amazon, why did nepotism emerge in Europe constantly thoroughout the middle ages, and why did Russia 'want' communism?
Once one deduces that this...
US post-war (WWI) was very isolationist - this view in my mind is based mainly on the Senate's attitude (reflecting US public opinion) to the Versaille Peace Conference and League of Nations; and also on Wilson's speeches and motions post-war.
Democratic governments are only one solution - why not consider an autocracy, a dictatorship or a monarchy.
And in a government for a country which has only rich people (like the Cayman Islands !) should only be considered with the rich :tongue2:
This is a quote from a large range of the AP and is symtamatic of the will of the people (Iraqi) and the logistics of establishing a state.
To clarify as my post my appear - from first hand experience and hearsay and interviews I and others have conducted, the people of Iraq despise US...
I'm running XP on this company laptop and the IT guys would no nuts if i went to *nix or BSD or such like!
I don't mind gmail etc but I am always on the lok out for alternatives and also ways to separate out accounts to specific groups of contacts, ie all friends on one, all business on...
An update, my ADSL router which provides the broadband link has just been repaired and this has allowed me to investigate the problem more, it is now apparent NO other programs except IE can access internet!
any ideas why/any solution?
I have been using Firefox v happily for a long time now, however, after upgrading to Version 1.5 on my laptop it has lost the ability to access the internet!
Some additional info:
the laptop connects to the web via a wireless LAN,
firefox DOES load but displays the 'Page cannot be...
Dyna-Soar for a dinosaur :P - only joking I like the concept of the X-20 and it has a part to play in space travel history but look to the future now...its only just begun...
Hey,
In this land of intelligence there must be a french speaker about!
I am asking because I need to compose a brief text (1/2 a page) on sports in french, incorporating as many of the following as possible: passive, pluperfect, perfect, imperfect and future tenses. The text needs to talk...
I refer to my earlier point - the multiple theories that predcit numerous other particles, have been experimentally verified but not for the graviton - I was implying that their ability to standing up to testing so far puts the graviton in good stead!
Danger: Lifting reentry is a workable terminology and is better defined (IMHO) as a method by which the incoming space vehicle is given a projectile like flight plan rather than slamming straight into earth! Yes the controlling of height is the main benefit but significant heating problems...
I was not saying that by a 'proof' gravitons do not exist, that the whole of QFT falls to the floor going aaaaaaah. Rather I was saying that the graviton almost certainly exists as the theory that predicts its existence has so much experimental support and theoretical support.
Yet one must...
I read yur post and was worried! So i found the specific links!
http://www.particleadventure.org/particleadventure/frameless/gravity.html
and
http://www.particleadventure.org/particleadventure/frameless/chart_cutouts/forces.jpg
gravitons are explicitly mentioned on both :P
By theory they MUST exist or the theory which predicted other particle properties and force carrier particles is wrong!
CERN are building (and have nearly finished building) the new particle accelerator that will hopefully show that gravitons exist in 'the flesh' not merely on paper.
Gravitons are thought to exist, and are the carrier particle for gravity - a good site for explaining this is [PLAIN]www.particleadventure.org/particleadventure/[/URL]