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From: Howard Brazee on 27 Apr 2010 15:18 On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:29:12 -0400, Mark Subtlework <MSW(a)khkhhkhkhkhk.com> wrote: >You send police and firemen on the streets, you shut electricity down on >the metro rails and you shout "Highjacked plane heading for NY: head for >the metro fast. You'll be safe there." > >I would possibily have cost some casualties, but certainly less than the >crash on the North Tower. In the U.S., we don't secure the rails, after all we have not been attacked there yet. Terrorists only attack rails in countries like Japan and Spain. -- "In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found, than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department." - James Madison
From: Alan Baker on 27 Apr 2010 17:08 In article <hr77uo$5cm$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Mark Subtlework <MSW(a)khkhhkhkhkhk.com> wrote: > On 04/27/2010 01:39 PM, Alan Baker wrote: > > >>> There's also the huge problem of shooting down a plane full of innocent > >>> people because of what the hijackers *might* do. > >> > >> Right. So, you clear the streets in NY and you shoot at the last minute. > > > > Wow. > > > > Which streets do you clear? How long does that take? > > MTA New York City Transit is one of the oldest and most extensive public > transportation systems in the world, with 468 stations in operation. > > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Subway> > > Back to Steve Jobs hijacking Apple. You've answered neither question. -- "The iPhone doesn't have a speaker phone" -- "I checked very carefully" -- "I checked Apple's web pages" -- Edwin on the iPhone "It is Mac OS X, not BSD.' -- 'From Mac OS to BSD Unix." -- "It's BSD Unix with Apple's APIs and GUI on top of it' -- 'nothing but BSD Unix' (Edwin on Mac OS X) '[The IBM PC] could boot multiple OS, such as DOS, C/PM, GEM, etc.' -- 'I claimed nothing about GEM other than it was available software for the IBM PC. (Edwin on GEM) 'Solaris is just a marketing rename of Sun OS.' -- 'Sun OS is not included on the timeline of Solaris because it's a different OS.' (Edwin on Sun)
From: Edwin on 27 Apr 2010 18:03 On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:53:12 -0700, Alan Baker wrote: > In article <1hlppovcpf6iq.1g15i4wacikqo$.dlg(a)40tude.net>, > Edwin <thorne25(a)juno.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:42:37 -0700, Alan Baker wrote: >> >>> In article <hr77gv$25n$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, >>> Mark Subtlework <MSW(a)khkhhkhkhkhk.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On 04/27/2010 12:45 PM, Kurt Ullman wrote: >>>>> In article<hr721o$rop$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, >>>>> Mark Subtlework<MSW(a)khkhhkhkhkhk.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Right. So, you clear the streets in NY and you shoot at the last minute. >>>>> >>>>> Good luck with that. And don't forget about inertia, those planes don't >>>>> just stop and drop straight down. Unless you splash them into the water >>>>> or on farm land before they get near the cities, you don't really gain >>>>> that much. Assuming you can clear out a few hundred square blocks of NYC >>>>> after you know where they are going. >>>> >>>> You clear all the streets. You put TV, radio, police and firemen with >>>> megaphones to contribution. >>>> >>>> Enough. Back to how Jobs hijacked Apple. >>> >>> Mark: you are completely ignorant of these matters, so by all means go >>> back to being ignorant about things that are on topic for these groups >> >> You'll never see more irony in your lifetime than has just been generated >> by Alan Baker in his single reply. > > Don't you read your own posts? I assume you ask merely for ironic effect.
From: Fa-groon on 28 Apr 2010 02:32 On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:03:14 -0700, JF Mezei wrote (in article <4bd7b384$0$5329$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>): > Matthew Russotto wrote: > >> Vader was not a member of the Imperial Government at all, as far as I >> can tell. He was just the Emperor's personal enforcer. > > Remember that Vader made senator Amadella pregnant illegally and that he > then killed her. While the emperor knew about this, he didn't tell > others. While this information was revealed to us in the documentary, > the empire troopers and generals were not aware of this. > > In terms of job title, wasn't Vader given a high ranking job within the > military portion of the empire ? Technically a government employee :-) > Jezus are you nerds SICK. Star Wars ARE KIDS' MOVIES! What are adults doing actually having a SERIOUS discussion about movies made for 10-year olds???!!!! You guys'll be discussing "Sesame Street" characters next!
From: Rupert Bear on 28 Apr 2010 03:20
In article <0001HW.C7FD2499002FED7FF01846D8(a)news.giganews.com>, Fa-groon <fa-groon(a)mad.com> wrote: > Jesus, are you nerds sick? Star Wars are kids' movies! What are adults doing > actually having a serious discussion about movies made for 10 year > olds? You guys'll be discussing "Sesame Street" characters next! If you want, we could discuss kids' anthropomorphic cartoons like "Arthur," "SWAT Kats" and "Rupert Bear." |