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Link quote:WASHINGTON - The world faces an estimated 50 percent chance of a nuclear, biological, chemical or radiological attack over the next five years, according to national security analysts surveyed for a congressional study released Wednesday. Using a poll of 85 nonproliferation and national security experts, the report also estimated the risk of attack by weapons of mass destruction at as high as 70 percent over the coming decade. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee surveyed analysts around the world in late 2004 and early this year to determine what they thought was the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction. The study was commissioned by committee Chairman Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., whose nonproliferation efforts in Congress have been credited with helping the states of the former Soviet Union lessen their stockpiles of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. "The bottom line is this: For the foreseeable future, the United States and other nations will face an existential threat from the intersection of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction," Lugar said in a statement. Committee aides sent out surveys asking respondents the percentage probability that a biological, chemical, nuclear and radiological attack would occur over the next five and 10 years. "If one compounds these answers, the odds of some type of WMD attack occurring during the next decade are extremely high," the report said, using the acronym for weapons of mass destruction. The study said the risks of biological or chemical attacks were comparable to or slightly higher than the risk of a nuclear attack. However, the study found a "significantly higher" risk of a radiological attack. It also said: -Three-fourths of those surveyed said one or two new countries would acquire nuclear weapons during the next five years, and as many as five new countries could have such weapons over the next 10 years. -Four-fifths of those surveyed said their country was not spending enough money on nonproliferation efforts. -Survey respondents also agreed that terrorists - rather than governments - were more likely to carry out a nuclear attack.at least that's what security analysts say.

quote:Originally posted by Cmdr Chavik: If you like, try the book The Wreck of The River of Stars by Michael Flynn. Fairly decent. Believable solar sail tech descriptions. The Starflight Handbook by Eugene Mallove is also very good book. I will take a look at Micheal Flynn's book.

The theory on how the solar sail works is interesting! Keep the articles coming LostinSpace

I wonder how long before it's back on e-bay b/c of expensive insurance!

quote:Originally posted by Grayfox: i remember having the multiple beep prob once (told me my something was up with my vid card) the way i solved it was to remove it, then reinstall it back into the slot and make sure it was pushed all the way in and it worked fine after that, but that was a long time ago with an old pci vid card... This is a good idea, the card may have worked it's way loose. also Kal try using this software EVEREST Home Edition It does a good job of identifying hardware in you machine and it is free.

quote: If it will save the lives of the people that the terrorist is trying to kill, then so be it!!ah, but that is a big IF! In fact, in my opinion, the whole stunt now has done more harm than good.

quote:Originally posted by LostInSpace: Kind of sounds like the card might be running a bit too fast and or hot for the system.possible, if he shutdown his system and waited around an hour and booted it back up and the problem went away, I might think it was a heat issue. But the second card more or less rules that out. quote:Could also be a power supply problem. Sometimes the power supply of your system does degrade over time. Not sure of the power requirement differnces between an Nvidia and ATI.I thought the same too, Nvidia is a power hog, but a 6800 GT runs fine with a 400 watt psu. I would suspect that he would have more spontaneous rebooting and lockups if it was a failing psu.

Do you know who manufactured your motherboard? Asus, Abit, etc? If you do what was the model?

PC2100 would have a DDR speed of 266.

KATHLEEN PARKER: DON'T USE WOMEN TO HUMILIATE PRISONERS quote:By now we can concede that America's prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is not a torture-driven gulag and that Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., is at risk of implosion by hyperbole. And we can thank insurgents for providing that perspective. The discovery a few days ago of a torture house in Iraq that included electrical wires, a noose, handcuffs and four badly beaten Iraqis provided a timely reminder of what torture is -- physical brutality toward a human being. And what it is not -- bad manners toward a book. Even a sacred one. As for Durbin's comparison of Guantanamo to Stalin's gulags, Hitler's concentration camps and Pol Pot's human-skull pyramids, one can only surmise that the Illinois senator suffered a temporary fugue or a bout of Tourette's. Durbin tried again to apologize Tuesday. But what he should have said was: "I deeply regret giving aid to the enemy and insulting the millions who suffered and died at the hands of history's most brutal tyrants," instead of offering another belated clarification. The problem with Durbin's rhetorical excess, meanwhile, is that he makes it easy -- and wrong -- to dismiss any and all concerns about prisoner treatment at Gitmo and elsewhere. Just because we're not Hitler or Stalin or Pol Pot doesn't mean our civil rights record couldn't use some burnishing. What we know about Abu Ghraib, thanks to the home boys' and girls' photo-journaling, makes decent people cringe, while some reports from Guantanamo should leave conscionable Americans ashamed. FBI reports from Guantanamo, for instance, record numerous incidents of physical abuse that don't square with the Geneva Conventions. Regardless of whether Gitmo inmates qualify under the conventions -- as "enemy combatants," they're not technically entitled to those protections -- their treatment at least should be consistent with Americans' "fundamental nature," as former President Bill Clinton put it in a recent Financial Times interview. In the same interview, Clinton urged that the United States either close Gitmo or clean house. Remove the women While there are plenty of good reasons to keep Gitmo open -- we need some place to hold suspected terrorists, after all -- cleaning house seems an excellent idea. Let's begin by getting rid of the women. As an act of self-respect, as well as diplomacy, we should get women out of male prisons and interrogation centers and put an end to this ignorant, politically correct (forgive the redundancy), morally subversive, counterproductive policy of using women to sexually humiliate men as a means of breaking them down for questioning. From under exactly what rock did the perpetrators of these filthy methods crawl? Various reports out of Gitmo suggest a consistent pattern of X-rated behavior by women toward men. (For a list taken from documents recently released to the American Civil Liberties Union under the Freedom of Information Act, go to aclu.org/torturefoia/released/052505/.) Even if such behavior weren't offensive to the Muslim world we're trying to charm with our democratic ways, it should be condemned by us. Instead, it is apparently a policy, if unspoken, to use women in ways we never would condone in civilian life and that certainly would get men punished if roles were reversed. The MO even has a name: the "sex-up" approach. Pithy. In one particularly loathsome example related by a former U.S. Army linguist, Sgt. Erik Saar, during an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes," a female interrogator put her hands in her pants, where she had hidden red ink. She then wiped her reddened hands on the detainee's face, telling him it was menstrual blood. Again, this clearly doesn't qualify as "torture" compared with electric shock and beatings, but it's still wrong as ballet boots. The war on terror, which is also a battle of perception, is daunting enough without our handing ammo to the enemy. Women have a legitimate role in the military and the war on terror, but playing the man-baiting whore is surely a sin of miscasting. And Gitmo, while not the killing camps of Stalin, Pol Pot and Hitler, is not America either.

wow, these politicians are sure protecting us from these violent games Doom, Night trap, 25 to life, GTA heh, wait a minute they missed two games! Postal 1 and 2, makes the violence in "25 to life" lame!

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of two Marines who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Lance Cpl. Erik R. Heldt, 26, of Hermann, Mo. Capt. John W. Maloney, 36, of Chicopee, Mass. Both Marines died June 16 when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations near Ar Ramadi, Iraq. They were assigned to 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif. During Operation Iraqi Freedom their unit was attached to 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward).Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Staff Sgt. Christopher N. Piper, 43, of Marblehead, Mass., died on June 16 at the Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, from injuries sustained on June 3 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle in Orgun-E, Afghanistan. He was assigned the 1st Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group, Fort Bragg, N.C.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Spc. Anthony S. Cometa, 21, of Las Vegas, Nev., died June 16 in Safwan, Kuwait, when his HMMWV rolled over. He was assigned to the Army National Guard's 1864th Transportation Company, 106th Transportation Battalion, Henderson, Nev.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Lance Cpl. Chad B. Maynard, 19, of Montrose, Colo., died June 15 when his vehicle hit an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations near Ar Ramadi, Iraq. He was assigned to 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif. During Operation Iraqi Freedom, his unit was operating with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division of the U.S. Army, which was attached to 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward).Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Pfc. Nathan B. Clemons, 20, of Winchester, Tenn., died June 14 from wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle while conducting combat operations against enemy forces near Ar Rutbah, Iraq. He was assigned to the 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a sailor who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Petty Officer 2nd Class Cesar O. Baez, 37, of Pomona, Calif., died June 15, as a result of enemy small arms fire while conducting combat operations in al-Anbar province, Iraq. Baez was a Hospital Corpsman assigned to 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward).Link May you rest in peace...

quote: The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. Anthony G. Jones, 25, of Greenville, S.C., died June 14 in Baghdad, Iraq, where an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle. Sgt. Jones was assigned to the 104th Transportation Company, 36th Engineer Group, 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized), Fort Benning, Ga.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Pfc. Michael R. Hayes, 29, of Morgantown, Ky., died June 14 in Baghdad, Iraq, where a rocket-propelled grenade hit his HMMWV while he was providing security cordon for an improvised explosive device found earlier. Hayes was assigned to the Army National GuardÔÇÖs 617th Military Police Company, Richmond, Ky.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of four Marines who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Lance Cpl. Jonathan R. Flores, 18, of San Antonio, Texas Cpl. Jesse Jaime, 22, of Henderson, Nev. Cpl. Tyler S. Trovillion, 23, of Richardson, Texas Lance Cpl. Dion M. Whitley, 21, of Los Angeles, Calif. All four Marines died June 15 when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations near Ar Ramadi, Iraq. All four Marines were assigned to 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif. During Operation Iraqi Freedom, their unit was operating with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division of the U.S. Army, which was attached to 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward).Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Pfc. Joshua P. Klinger, 21, from Easton, Pa., died June 14 as a result of an explosion from an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces near Fallujah, Iraq. He was assigned to 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.Link May you rest in peace...

quote: The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died on June 13 in Ramadi, Iraq, where their military vehicle came under a grenade attack while conducting combat operations. Both soldiers were assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo. The soldiers are: Sgt. Larry R. Kuhns Jr., 24, of Austintown, Ohio. Spc. Anthony D. Kinslow, 21, of Westerville, Ohio.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. David J. Murray, 23, of Clinton, La., died June 9 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle. Murray was assigned to the Army National Guard's 1088th Engineering Battalion, New Roads, La.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Cpl. Stanley J. Lapinski, 35, of Las Vegas, Nev., died June 11 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle. Lapinski was assigned to the Army's 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Lance Cpl. John J. Mattek Jr., 24, of Stevens Point, Wis., died June 13 from wounds received as a result of an explosion while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, on June 8. He was assigned to the 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Regimental Combat Team-2, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.Link May you rest in peace...