From: panteltje on 8 Oct 2006 10:06 science_for_jihad(a)yahoo.com schreef: > Jihad needs competent scientists in the fields of nuclear physics, > chemistry and biology. Qualified scientists and engineers at the > Master/Ph.D. level and above are encouraged to apply. Readiness to > travel and to pass a preliminary examination is required. Would you like to see my design for a veil seeking missile?
From: T Wake on 8 Oct 2006 10:08 "John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote in message news:bgrhi2dri7ejkovr8e8ojll00s0ums6i86(a)4ax.com... > On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 10:46:58 +0100, "T Wake" > <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: > >> >>"joseph2k" <quiettechblue(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message >>news:ceXVg.3010$NE6.540(a)newssvr11.news.prodigy.com... > >>> I find that assessment odd in light of the ability of passenger planes >>> to >>> damage buildings like the World Trade Center towers impacts >>> demonstrated. >>> Equally to the point, when told to change course by any military, the >>> refusal does not demonstrate reasonable judgment. >> >>False analogy and lack of critical thinking has hindered your response. >> >>A warship is capable of manoeuvre which a building isn't. > > --- > Not when an aircraft poses a threat, perceived or real. That is, > for all intents and purposes, a ship might as well be dead in the > water when threatened by an aircraft. Was the ship in question unable to move or is this hypothetical? While a nation owes a duty of care to its service personell, in the West we have volunteer armed forces. People who take the job know that they are more at risk than civilians and either accept it or leave. The people in the WTC did not have that option and what happened to them was a terrible attrocity. The people in the Iran Air plane did not have that option and what happened to them was a terrible attrocity. >>A warship which is threatened by a civilian airliner in a commercial air >>lane can move away. I wasn't aware the WTC buildings had wheels. >> >>Still, the "might is right" response is enlightening. > > --- > Closer to "An ounce of prevention"... I'd think. What did it prevent?
From: Eeyore on 8 Oct 2006 10:15 John Fields wrote: > On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 10:46:58 +0100, "T Wake" > <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: > > Not when an aircraft poses a threat, perceived or real. That is, > for all intents and purposes, a ship might as well be dead in the > water when threatened by an aircraft. There was no threat. > >A warship which is threatened by a civilian airliner in a commercial air > >lane can move away. I wasn't aware the WTC buildings had wheels. > > > >Still, the "might is right" response is enlightening. > > --- > Closer to "An ounce of prevention"... I'd think. Preventing what ? Graham
From: Eeyore on 8 Oct 2006 10:18 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > ><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >>> > >>>> ISTR that Bin Laden's next goal is to kill 3 million people > >>> > >>>Cite ? > >> > >> I don't have one since I can't access the web. > > > >That's a copout. How about any recollection at all of where you saw it, so > >others can try to verify? > > The time was around 2004. It was a site that translates that > news issued in Arabian. The essay counted 3,000,000 Arabs > who had been killed by the US since 1500s and 3 million > Americans would have to die to make things equal. You're saying that "a site" threatened 3 million Americans ? How feeble minded are you ? Graham
From: Eeyore on 8 Oct 2006 10:20
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > lparker(a)emory.edu (Lloyd Parker) wrote: > > >There isn't "tapping" anyway. The NSA monitors phone calls. ALL phone > calls. > > Computers flag those with certain words or phrases, or certain voices, or > >certain locales, etc. But we have no way of knowing which things cause calls > >to get flagged, nor do we have any assurance nobody is looking at the others. > > I wonder how many MIPS it would take to do all that you specify above. MIPS are dift cheap now. Think TIPS instead. Graham |