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LOL, who didn't see that one coming

quote:Originally posted by DocHoliday: [QB] I assume DU is still radioactive, so after the target is effectively obliterated, it is also now radioactive? Which is basically an added bonus in warefare.. Yes and No, DU emits Alpha, Beta and Gamma radiation, However it is mostly an Alpha radiation emitter. This can be blocked by skin, paper, etc. The Beta radiation can supposedly be stoped by the battle dress utility uniform. DU is a weak Gamma emitter to the point It could be ignored. The main hazard is if you inhale particles from DU.

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died March 7, in Ramadi, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near their screening area. The two men were assigned to the ArmyÔÇÖs 44th Engineer Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Camp Howze, Korea. The soldiers were: Sgt. Andrew L. Bossert, 24, of Fountain City, Wis., Pfc. Michael W. Franklin, 22, of Coudersport, Pa.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:Originally posted by Scrivener: That's actually a very intriguing idea. Were such a thing proposed in America, lawsuits would be flying that very hour.That is possible, I know the local Botanical Garden used to have a few of the planets listed in the article.

Sounds neat. Will have to wait for it to come out for the PC though.

quote:Originally posted by Cc: So what isotope are we talking about? I assume U 238.yep quote: Since U 235 makes bombs.and U 234

Depleted uranium is what is left over when most of the highly radioactive types (isotopes) of uranium are removed for use as nuclear fuel or nuclear weapons. The depleted uranium used in armor-piercing munitions and in enhanced armor protection for some Abrams tanks is also used in civilian industry, primarily for stabilizers in airplanes and boats.

Link quote:By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY When 9-year-old Trey Chapman went on an overnight school trip recently, his parents handed him a cell phone so they could keep in touch. Trey's dad, James Chapman, 38, a salesman from Greensboro, N.C., liked the idea so much that he wanted to get Trey his own phone, mostly to help with daily logistics, such as picking up his son when he was done with basketball practice. But Chapman was wary of an adult cell phone that would give his son entree to the world - and vice versa. Then he saw a new kind of cell phone being sold in the Southeast. The phone, to be announced nationwide today, is designed just for kids Trey's age. It's plastic and has a cool design, flashing lights and big buttons so kids can call their parents - or 911 - with a single touch. Best of all, as far as Chapman is concerned, it has lots of controls that allow parents to limit whom kids can talk to. He bought it a month ago, and Trey has been using it ever since. Little did Chapman know that he had jumped on an emerging national trend. Cell phones, which are practically de rigueur for teenagers, are finding their way into the even smaller hands of preteens. Only 1% of children under 9 owned cell phones in 2004, according to the Boston-based Yankee Group. But that didn't include the kids who carried adult cell phones on an as-needed basis. Chapman purchased the preteen phone from a new Linconshire, Ill., company called Firefly Mobile. The phone has no keypad, so all phone numbers must be preprogrammed. "I've got control," Chapman says. The phone is available now through SunCom Wireless in the Southeast. In May, parents elsewhere can buy it on the Web from Firefly (fireflymobile.com) for $100, including 30 minutes of talk time. In July, the phones will be available at Target, but the price is not set. Mattel, partnering with Single Touch, plans to introduce a Barbie cell phone this summer for girls 8 to 14. Parents will be able to control the phone through a Web site. The $50 phone comes with 30 minutes of talk time. And Hasbro is introducing a walkie-talkie system for kids called ChatNow, which looks and feels like a cell phone and allows children to chat within a 2-mile radius. Expect more options by the end of the year, says technology analyst Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group in San Jose. "Kids want phones. Parents want the kids to have phones so they can call for help or call for a pickup." But "an adult phone opens itself up to certain challenges and risks the parents are not willing to take." Some parents would say no to preteen phones under any circumstances. But others are more concerned about safety - and cost. They don't want their preteens running up huge bills. Plans for Firefly will be determined by cell phone providers. For instance, Chapman says he pays $20 a month through SunCom Wireless for Trey's phone. The phones to be sold at Target will come with prepaid plans. "What parents told us is they want to know who their kids are talking to - and probably even more important, who's talking to their kids," says Firefly CEO Robin Abrams, formerly of Apple and Palm. She says phones come with a clip to prevent loss, but Firefly will sell separate phone leashes and child-size headsets. But not everyone is cheering the idea. "This isn't a cell phone," says Paul Saffo of the Institute for the Future in Menlo Park, Calif. "This is a dog leash. This is a sucker purchase for every paranoid parent." After the novelty wears off, kids will find ways to lose their phones or tell their parents they're "out of range," he predicts. "The parents are going to think they're saving money by buying this brain-damaged phone for their kids. But all it's going to do is cause the kids to want a real cell phone that much earlier. As if they don't want it already." Trey, who has had the phone for a few months, says he likes the features, especially the easy-to-use buttons - one for mom and one for dad. Whether the phones take off or not, the pressure is on. "Parents may as well just resign themselves that just as soon as their child is old enough to type and hold a phone that they're going to demand one," Saffo says. "It won't be long before no self-respecting kindergartner is going to start school without a cell phone."

quote:Originally posted by LostInSpace: Here's some possible pics of the car damage The Jawa Report: Images of Sgrena's Car quote:If this is the car then it would contradict earlier reports that Sgrena's rescuers had used a truck. I don't think that is Sgrena's car.

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of four soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died on Mar. 4 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq when an improvised explosive device detonated near their patrol. The four soldiers were assigned to the 1st Infantry Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, Fort Carson, Colo. The soldiers are: Capt. Sean Grimes, 31, of Southfield, Mich. Sgt. 1st Class Donald W. Eacho, 38, of Black Creek, Wis. Cpl. Stephen M. McGowan, 26, of Newark, Del. Spc. Wade Michael Twyman, 27, of Vista, Calif.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Spc. Adriana N. Salem, 21, of Elk Grove Village, Ill., died Mar. 4 in Remagen, Iraq when her military vehicle rolled over. Salem was assigned to the 3rd Forward Support Battalion, Division Support Command, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga. The incident is under investigation.Link May you rest in peace...

It's a Windows Media file and you can download it here http://a.wimp.com:8000/v/chaingun.wmv

heh, reading the instructions help 4570.04

quote:Originally posted by Wolferz: WTF? I don't recall posting that twice.... Has Resnig been farting around with the website again?Wow, and almost six hours between posts!

1559.43 with just random clicking. Guess I should read the instructions now.

If anyone is looking for a good Voice Recognition software this thread has information about Shoot.

quote:Originally posted by Jaguar: I have friends that are in Iraq right now, and more then one of them has heard about this, one of them is based close to where this occurred. So then what are they saying about this incident as far as details go? for example, how far away was the car when they decided to open fire on it? About how many rounds struck the car? Where where the occupants sitting in the car? What kinds of machine guns where used to fire upon the car? etc etc The media has been immensely vague at the moment. Perhaps your contacts can add some detail to this.

Except it was not a checkpoint according to Sgrena, However at the moment there are so many different versions of this story floating around who knows what happened that night.

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Staff Sgt. Juan M. Solorio, 32, of Dallas, Texas, died March 4 in Mosul, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle as his unit was being attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire. Solorio was assigned to the Army's 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Lewis, Wash.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. 1st Class Michael D. Jones, 43, of Unity, Maine, died March 3 in Syracuse, N.Y., of a non-combat related illness. He had just returned from duty in Iraq. Jones was assigned to the Army National Guard's 133rd Engineer Battalion, Belfast, Maine.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of two Soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. The soldiers died on Mar. 2 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their military vehicle. Both soldiers were assigned to the Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry Regiment, Manhattan, New York, N. Y. The Soldiers are: Spc. Azhar Ali, 27 of Flushing, N.Y. Spc. Wai P. Lwin, 27, of Queens, N.Y.Link May you rest in peace...

Privateer Remake is about to be released barring no other problem is found with the game. It is based on the VegaStrike game engine. Privateer lives again

Shame this could have been prevented with better communication between those involved.

Link quote:By Liz Sly Tribune foreign correspondent The women at Nasar's beauty salon were Christian and Muslim, Sunni and Shiite, but they spoke with one voice on an issue that worries them all. "I'm sure they will form an Islamic government and our freedom will be gone," Suzan Sarkon, 30, said as she settled in to get her long black hair trimmed. "We've never lived freely in Iraq (news - web sites), and now I think we never will." "I will commit suicide if that happens," vowed Karama Saeed, 27, who said she cried when she heard that the group led by the secularist interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi won only 14 percent of the vote in Iraq's landmark election. "No," she said, reconsidering. "I will leave the country." As Iraq embarks on its uncertain journey toward crafting a new constitution, Iraqi women have perhaps more to win or lose in the process than anyone. Since the election results were confirmed, many women have expressed deep concerns about the direction in which they see their country headed. A coalition of Islamist Shiite parties won the largest share of the seats in Iraq's new National Assembly. The parties have nominated an Islamic scholar to be prime minister, and though they insist they do not want to impose a religious government on Iraq, they have made it clear they expect Islam to feature in the new constitution. Yanar Mohammed, a women's rights campaigner, has no doubt that the parties represented in the Shiite coalition, the United Iraqi Alliance, intend to use their majority to introduce Shariah, or Islamic law, into the constitution that the assembly will write. Fearing marginalization "This was their mandate. It's their policy. If you are an Islamist party, it's the priority on your agenda," she said. "Ibrahim al-Jaafari is well-decorated to look like a Western man, but he has this 100 percent Islamic agenda, and women will be inferior if he takes over." Though al-Jaafari, the Shiite candidate for prime minister, and other Shiite leaders have said they do not want an Iranian-style Islamic government, they have said repeatedly that they will not allow laws that "contradict Islam" and that the "Islamic identity" of Iraq should be preserved--wording that, if included in the constitution, would open the door to the application of Islamic law in many areas of life that mostly affect women, experts say. At a minimum, that likely will mean applying Shariah to civil and family laws, according fewer rights to women than men in areas such as marriage, divorce and inheritance, said Joyce Wiley, an authority on Iraqi Shiites at the University of South Carolina. "I'm afraid it's not going to be very good for women," she said. Salama Khafaji, a newly elected Shiite legislator, says women have no reason to fear Shariah. Many women who voted for the Shiite coalition support the idea of Islamic laws, which does not mean they want to impose their views on other women, she said. "Many women choose to wear hijab," said Khafaji, who always wears a black head-to-toe abaya. "It will be voluntary." But a climate in which religious values are being asserted by the country's government may make it difficult for women who don't want to cover themselves to resist social pressures to conform, said Mohammed, who plans to organize a march demanding a secular constitution on March 8. The marked increase in the number of women wearing head scarves these days is only the most outwardly visible sign of the creeping Islamization of society that has already taken place since the U.S. invasion, leaving many women living under a de facto form of Islamic rule, she said. "There are armed men everywhere. If you go without the protection of the scarf, they can stop you and you may get assaulted," Mohammed said. "And there's pressure from husbands and fathers. Being good and chaste means you put a veil on. They tell you it's voluntary, but how can it be voluntary when there's that much pressure on you?" The liberation promised by the U.S. invasion has so far eluded most Iraqi women. With gunmen roaming the streets and kidnappings a daily occurrence, protective fathers and anxious husbands keep their daughters and wives at home. Women have been targeted for failing to cover their heads and for expressing views such as those of Mohammed, who has received several death threats. These days a trip to the beauty salon is one of the few escapes for women who no longer feel safe going out on the streets. At Nasar's, in one of Baghdad's safer neighborhoods, customers linger after their beauty treatments, smoking cigarettes, sipping sweet black coffee and talking about their increasingly restricted lives. "Everyone I know stays home. It's been two years since I went out with my friends," said Tara Husham, 22, whose Muslim father and Christian mother say she must be home by 5 p.m. `Destroying us' "Our lives have been devastated," said customer Saeed, a Christian and mother of two who barely dares to go out since she was chased last month by gunmen she believes were trying to kidnap her. "It's destroying us psychologically." "If there is Islamic law, it will be worse," Husham said. "Islamic law is very traditional--women must obey everything men say. It means democracy will be denied to us." As she spoke, a figure cloaked in black entered the salon, striking a stark contrast with the other women dressed in jeans and tight sweaters. Tearing off her head scarf and shaking loose her blond-streaked hair, Anwar Sobhi, 30, explained that she traveled from a neighborhood overrun by radical Sunni insurgents, where graffiti on the walls threatens death to women who don't cover their hair and where the beauty salons were forced to close months ago because they are deemed un-Islamic. "Of course, I don't want to dress like this. ... I want to wear what I like," said Sobhi, who is Shiite. "When I was a child, my parents used to try to make me wear hijab to school, and when I got around the corner I would take it off. It was just like suffocation." She only began covering up last month, after she was threatened by armed men. "Where I live, not even one lady can go out without completely covering her hair," she said. "It's just too dangerous." The other women listened with sympathy and alarm. "If George Bush (news - web sites) thinks this is liberation, then he should make his own wife and daughters wear hijab," said Hanan Azzawi, 36, one of the salon's stylists. A strong streak of secularism runs through Iraqi society, the legacy of decades of rule by the quasi-socialist Baath Party. And it is by no means guaranteed that the Islamists, who hold a slim majority of the seats in the National Assembly, will be able to enforce their demands. Allawi has mounted a challenge to al-Jaafari's candidacy, and he is wooing women legislators, who have been given a third of the seats under Iraq's election rules. Approval of the new constitution requires a two-thirds majority, and the secularist Kurds, who hold more than a quarter of the seats, also are opposed to Islamic law. The women at Nasar's say they hope Allawi prevails, and if he doesn't, they are counting on help from another source. "If America lets the Shiites rule Iraq, they will make a union with Iran (news - web sites) and it will create a very big power in the Middle East," said Husham, who finds it hard to believe U.S. forces invaded Iraq to install an Islamic government. "I'm sure America doesn't want that. I'm sure they have a plan." If not, Azzawi, the stylist, says she expects Bush to help out. "He will have to issue visas for America with this new constitution, because we will all be leaving," she said. "Do they need hairdressers in America?"

All that work when he could have had true love when he met the third person.