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iirc from the msdn sparse info regarding prepping for Win64, Win64 will support 32-bit apps in a mini-vm, like how old NT used to do for 16-bit apps. NT 3.51 was the last edition to do it right, with full isolation for the Win32 VM's, the posix vm, the OS2 vm, and the Win16 vm from the executive layer. Since 32-bit stuff will be running inside a virtual box, and getting padded to fit into 64-bit addressing, 32-bit drivers will not be supported, as they can not directly access executive resources. Furthermore, 16-bit apps will no longer be supported, as padding 75% of their bit length results in too much abstraction.

Click on the links for 3200x1200x32 versions. First two are 3 squads of West JAM-HD vs East JAM-HD at a double Scorpio CH-53E crash on North Tonal. Second two are a BAS UH-60L hovering off the stern of the BIS LST.

Speaking of WW2 connections, US-German POW relations were 'ok', as far as POW deals were concerned. In the pacific however, things were different. If you were captured by the Japanese, you were 'obiviously' a wuss who didn't give it his all, or a traitor to your own native country, and regardless of that, were guilty of fighting against the most holy emperor, plus being a white pig (sub-human) to boot. Therefore, the 'humane' thing was to give you the 'justice' you deserved, all the way from Bataan to the slave factories. Of course, if we start up the moral relativism debate all over again, that will really blow this OT and fan the flames, as has been done repeatedly before. Along with Avon's point, which I think makes the distinction between 'resistance (liberation)' and 'terrorism', I'm thinking that the main difference is that there are groups of people who have as their primary goal, the death of all persons not of their ethnic origin, and also of their same religious persuasion. They hold it as their duty to ensure the erradication of those targets. On the other hand, you have people of all sorts that ultimately want some form of life. Whether they plan on a reformed or corrupt rule is secondary to the fact that they ultimately want some sort of nation.

This, is the chili oil icing on the proverbial hot tamale cake: Dual Nvidia 6800 SLI.

Bah, hypeage. Anybody with a recent ATI or Nvidia card can pop multiple monitors on a box, and you can add additional PCI cards as well. The puRam HD is a nice bit though, the 9800p/xt leaves something to be desired in that catagory, a x800 or 6800 would be more appropiate. DIY, and you won't regret it.

That was absolutely hilarious Tex, and probably pretty close to reality. Now change the drinks from booze to coffee, quadruple postering-badgering-and-filibustering, you might get close to things in the ME.

King Fahd addresses the nation on surrender of terrorists Interesting read.

You know, I thought we kept all the wordy silliness here, but this is a hilarious statement from Saudi ambassador Bandar bin Sultan: Oooo powerful words... scary... June 15th Press Release from Saudi Arabian D.C. Embassy

Could anyone explain why dropping 500 pounders is not acceptable warfare practice? Yeah, it may break the windows of the neighbor's house, but the signifcant damage would be coming from poor construction quality. That said, here is the scenario: Information comes in that an alleged bad dude is in location x. To travel to location x involves time y and visibility z. If you notice on little domestic SWAT operations, there is a command post, tons of vehicles, and a pile of infrastructure for a single crazy guy with a pistol. Now scale that to a house with tiny windows suspected to be hiding anti-tank gear and heavy machine guns. Remember back when Saddam's kids got waxed. They got a tip, sent in a squad, squad got pushed back by extremely heavy automatic weapons fire. So they laid seige and called for whoever was in the building to come out with their hands up. They said they'd rather die. Do you just walk away at that point and sing Kumbayah? No, you finish the job. So they pumped a couple TOW's (steerable from a distance) in each window to clear out each room. For those of you who have not traveled in the middle east, many roads there are the size of some US sidewalks. There was a picture a couple days ago of an M1A1 stuck in a ditch because it had swerved to avoid traffic. The road was only twice the width of the tank. Many places that these raids take place, there is not sufficent egress to setup the equipment and safety perimeters required for successful operations against heavy weapons. The perimeters of the US bases, as well as the main roads into the towns are already under surveillence. That much is a given. So any attempt to move in squads with sufficent equipment to safely knock on a door and ask "Um, excuse me, we were wondering if Mr. Zarqawi would like to make a donation to the Iraqi children's relief fund" would be spotted, and the targets evacuated long before the squad's arrival. Dropping a bomb on the target solves all these problems. The blast range is small enough to minimize the amount of collateral damage and civilian casualties, obliterates the target, has little or no warning, and can respond much quicker that ground forces if the bomber is already in the air. Of course you can argue that it was uncertain if the suspect was in the location, or if the suspect was even related to the charge. That information is called 'intelligence', and means and operations usually are not made public, nor should they be. If the suspects find out how the information is aquired, they will move to eliminate that leak. Secondly, you could argue that this is summary execution with out a fair trial, and execution based on an allegation (charge), instead of tried facts (conviction). Yes, that is correct, but things are different on the battlefield. In war, you are in a hostile situation with ambushes and active campaigning. Operation expectations are to involve presumed fatal activities. If you wait to obtain all the evidence, Or you can return fire and take offensive operations. Your choice.

In the 1700's, the british army and all the other european armies for that matter, marched in close ranks on open fields with shiny uniforms. We yanks snuck through the bushes, dressed in 'irregular' farm grubs and buckskins, and made ambushes. To the british, that type of guerilla tactics could well have been considered terrorism, while in comparison the military enforcement of royal edicts was viewed as 'terrorism'. But contrast that with the Indians. There were Indians fighting for and among themselves, some for us, some for the British, some for the French, and some for the Spanish. They were regarded as savages by those who fought against them, but not nearly so by those who fought with them.

I think that most people are comfortable with the classical notion of wars over boundries and other such political issues. For example, the US Revolutionary War was fought over economic and political policy regarding the British management of the colonies at that time. We entered WW2 on the premise that US and Allied property was at risk or had been illegally occupied. In the conclusion of WW2, the Allies embarked on significant programs of reigme change, 'civilizing', and cultural 'reform' in Germany and Japan. That was not viewed as 'terror', because of the racist supierority involved, ie you pet dog does not have equivelient human rights.

This is a discussion of is 'terrorism' really 'terrorism', not who is a 'terrorist'. That debate is amply covered elsewhere.

Also consider Dresden and Tokyo. They got firebombed so bad that at times they had to call off the raids, as the thermals were making the bombers uncontrollable. And of course, the biggie - A-bombs. For all the talk of 'tactical' nukes and applications against hardened targets, the PR mongering has created a public perception that nuke's are 'uncivil' while torching tokyo is 'civil'. In reading a biography of Emperor Showa (Hirohito), the comment was made that he was out of the picture administratively during the war, the operations of the governement having been turned over by his grandfather Meiji. Only when the junta came to him with their tails between their legs because none could admit defeat and live (pansies), that he was in a position to declare what the others wanted but could not say.

Local farmer's cows got poisoned, FBI called into investigate, rumors running wild, all in my town: ~20 cows poisoned in Enumclaw, WA Theories: 1) Teamsters union members (mad over bad contract) 2) Earth Liberation Front (torched a couple developments and car dealerships recently) 3) High school prank (HS just let out, hick town) 4) Terrorist conspiricy fronted through mexican ranch-hand drifters (that's how Seattle gets its dope) 5) Space aliens Since the investigation is over the scope of what the Sheriff can handle (technically) they called the FBI, which working with DHS, of course has to suspect terrorism from the start. Mooo....

Hold on a sec folks, basiclly all gmail does is run a parser against your mailbox, and crosslink in with google ads. Proper coding would have that code run as a user that google-people can't get at. For example, all you webmasters that have php/mysql sites, you have live db servers sitting out on the net. The catch is that they don't respond to external' queries, and proper net design in a larger datacenter like what google will need will physically isolate that. And if you look at the screenshots, the interface is beautifully simplistic. So much less screen bloat, and more efficent than yahoo and hotmail. pm'd.

In a real sense, to many Americans, western Europe was the 'fence' against Soviet expansion. Now with 'modern war' in a global environment, the 'border' or 'frontline' is each person's doorstep. The unfamiliarity of this situation is on factor that we use to assign the label of 'terror' to this form of warfare. The actual differences in the forms of military action, or 'upgrades' from sticks and stones, to clubs, to swords, to archery, to combined tactics, to cavalry, to explosive powered projectiles, and a-bombs. The other unfamilier factor is that 'terrorism' and 'anti-terrorism' implies some form of forced cultural change, as opposed to only regime change. Traditional warfare has tended to ignore cultures, and focused on political or economic factors. Hence the irreconcible debate on the purpose of the US involvement in Iraq. On one hand, you have a policy that results in only a transfer of the whip, on the other hand you have an attempt to change the cultural inclination to use the whip.

My long-winded point was that just because some 'silly' paper says the line goes 'there' doesn't mean that the courts will uphold it, or that it won't go unchallenged. Tying this back to the terrorism subject, the argument is constantly made in globalist terms that borders and lines are old-fashioned notions, and developments in Europe seem to be showing how ideal implementations could be done. The problem is that people in other parts of the world still insist on historical boundries, and that the stability of those lines is often called into question. For example, Israel is considering digging an expansive trench at the Rafah border to intercept under-border weapons smuggling tunnels. Theoretically, the border is only a mathematical vector between points defined on a treaty, and the width needed for the trench will come from condemned property. As we've seen in the Security fence debate, there are 'virtual' borders and 'real' borders. People that are having their land seized claim an 'unlawful' operating border at the edge of the fence width, while demanding return of the full property to the 'real' border. With the environmental setbacks here, in some cases folks are restricted from as much as half their property. But they still have to pay property taxes on the assesed value of the entire property without the setbacks.

Not even funny. Over here we have stuff like Homeowners' Associations, Neighborhood covenants, abusive county usage of emminent domain for seizure without compensation of property, growth management restrictions limiting rezoning and subdividing - topped by environmental setbacks carving the heart out of large property tracts. Notice nobody has gone and shot the sheriff in our county over this though. Rather, it has been bottled up in the courts for the last twenty years, so the county has had to adminstratively create new orders, which fortunately have even less legal founding. When my parents bought their property about 15 years ago, there was in the deed an attached easement for the east 30 feet of each of the parcels to the south. This was noted on several deeds held by all the parties going back some 70+ years to the first subdividing from the original section plat. However, the neighbor a few parcels south had had a friend do an informal (and inaccurate survey) when he purchased his piece ~30 years ago, and laid a gravel road on the 30 feet from his presumption of the property line. As it was adjacent to an overgrown ditch and seldom used, nothing was corrected at the time. When we purchased our property, we attempted to have the full easement cleared to allow for sufficent width for emergency vehicles, utilities, and 2-way traffic, in light of the granted 30 foot easement. The neighbor to the east, a krumedgeonly old geezer of dubious raport, decided to exercise his right to his property at that same time, and planted a railroad tie as a post on his property corner. Ironically at the same time, a contractor on our house suffered a collapsed lung and the volunteer firemen said that they would refuse service to our lane until the easement was corrected. We ended up taking this whole mess to court. The old geezer was of the opinion (and still posts signs to the effect) that "Trespassors will be shot, survivors will be violated". The judge actually ruled against us and the geezer, saying that the 'historical' road took precedence over the 'legal' road, despite sworn testimony from the defendants stating that they had only seen one cattle truck in 10 years ever use that road.

Using detail settings under "normal", aggresive XP memory management, and judicious addon management via mod folders, you should be ok with 512mb. Running up to "Very_high" though, with tons of addons placed in a mission, and bloatware/spyware etc in XP, 1gb may not be enough.

Was he there officially? The 3 Japanese hostages freed several months ago have had to go into hiding back home, having been socially austrocized for going to Iraq against the warning of the Japanese governement to stay home. Having 'disgraced' themselves, their families are in mourning about the disrespectful behaviour of their insolent kids. Food for thought.

So where's the Canadians in this debate, ay?

Out har in teh sticks wah'll get purty fed up with yur abusing awr english. 'Course the old man on the corner speaks a little french now and again, or mostly all the time actually. At least your troubles are legalized. Here we've got brokering houses smuggling and supporting illegal immigrant compounds. The people get squirrelled away in out-of-the-way communities, rotated around, and employed under the table at all the fast food places and other business establishments. The owners leave much of the employee oversight and hiring to the line managers, but forget that they the owners are the ones that will get nailed by the feds.

What ever did give you such a quaint notion? Many cultures today still conciously or subconciously do not make that significant distinction. Heck, radically environmentalists here in the US put cows above humans, because of bovine victimization and deliberate human floricide and faunacide. I can see my neighbor's rodeo cattle out my window. They are some of the most schizophrenic bi-polar psychotic critters alive. And who determines the line? Is it Vienna in 1683? Is it Grenada in 1492? The Crusades starting in 1095? The pre-May 1948 line, the post-may 1948 line? the pre-1967 line or the post 1967 line? The pre-1973 line or the post 1973 line? The security fence line, or property lines approved by the pre-1967 Jordanian ministry of Palestinian Affairs? When you can make a reliable method of drawing mutually agreed upon lines in the sand with working DMZ's, let me know. The only one that has come close is the Sinai Peninsula, and that has lots of tunnels under the border at Rafah.

It is obviously quite natural to be concerned more about 'your' casulties than 'their' casulties. Having said that, a little background. On 9/11(9/12 local time), I was in a remote area of west-central Japan. We got a phone call that America had been attacked, stuff had blown up, and that was all the caller knew. The post office was next door, and was running the tape of the towers coming down. We asked when the airports would re-open. Nobody knew. I didn't know that the airports had re-opened, or that I would even have a means of coming home, or what the conditions were, until the slow boat mail came in some 2 months later. There was an 'Extra' paper printed that day, and a few pictures in the main paper the next day, but by a week or two later, it was off the Japanese news radar. If you recall, there was a plane crash due to mechanical failure shortly after 9/11 in NYC. A man approached me on the street and said <Gee, that's too bad, you guys got hit again> I wanted to retort back <Wait a sec, don't you get it? It's just like...> Then I thought <wait, you don't see Pearl Harbor the same way we do, do you?> One significant difference that we tend to overlook is that the world outside of the Middle East acknowledges the neutrality of 'civilians'. That is not commonly accepted by the terrorists. Palestinian terrorists have routinely cited the fact of mandatory Israeli military service as justification their allegation that their victims are in fact combatants. The rationalization given for killing children is that they will inevitablly follow in their parents' footsteps, so better speed them on to hell. As we saw in the case of Nick Berg and Paul Johnson, even being sympathetic or agreeable is not enough. The most radical fringe elements view other people in three ways: brothers, apostate muslim infidels, and foriegn crusaders or idolators. There is no middle ground for them. No diplomatic immunity, no independent journalistic security, if you are not fighting alongside them, you are their active enemy, and therefore an 'enemy combatant'.

does nobody else here recall that gordon freeman worked at innsbruck before being transfered to black mesa? the administrator is not going to be pleased... on the other hand, this may help out steam.