the6ofpopes

The best thing to do is upload your T's to another tracker, all you need to do is edit the T info & add a comment saying "The Nite lives on" so everyone knows where it originated & people can complete there's T's that hadn't finished yet & more people can enjoy them.

Lets not forget that the US isn't the only country using the Abrams tank. Egypt has 555 M1A1 tanks & another 200 on order. Saudi Arabia has 315 M1A2 tanks Kuwait has 218 M1A2 tanks Australia ordered 59 M1A1 tanks for service by 2007 Considering the Abrams tank could fire on average 1,000 meters further than any Iraqi tank it's pretty obvious why there were none lost. Add to that the fact the Abrams never came within 3 miles of the enemy & what enemy there was were nothing more than conscripted militia with 50yr old weapons. All of which were waving white flags long before the US even fired there 1st shot. However your helicopters don't fair near as well, two blackhawks downed in Somalia & in Iraq I stopped counting after the 1st dozen or so, these weren't downed by military forces but rebels & terrorist using rifles in most cases & I heard even rocks in one case. I wouldn't rely on any government to consider risks, yours mine or anyone elses for that matter, money & power is a politicians only motive today. Risks well they'll worry about that part later......if & when they get caught!! Rocky Flates, isn't that the glowing area in the US we always see in photos from the space shuttle as it passes over. Sorry couldn't help myself, resistance is futile....

I think were all on the same page as you bbbb regarding the use of nukes. :cyclops: :cyclops: :cyclops: But accidents do happen & that's what frightens me most about any type of expansion of use, of nuclear technology beyond simply providing power to the masses.

I realize we've been using nuclear power for many yrs & we've come a long way with it, but I don't consider it safe. It's relatively safe in the way were currently using it, mostly as a power source in place of coal, locked away inside relatively secure facilities with safeguard on top of safeguard. But once you start putting it into vehicles of war like tanks & helicopters you now run a large risk of it falling into enemy hands during conflicts. Not only that but the current military use in subs & aircraft carriers is a very limited use & each has many safeguards & highly trained personel to monitor them, plus plenty of soldiers & defences on those vessels. A tank is a very small & vulnerable vehicle compared to an aircraft carrier or sub, helicopters are just as vulnerable as we've seen in Iraq & other recent conflicts. I know I'm sounding very pessimistic but I think you have to be, if your always optimistic you'll never see the pitfalls until it's to late.

I think if the US government or military is relying on other countries to allow them to drive or fly nuke powered vehicles through there countries in the future if the need arises, then the US has sadly mistaken the extent of friendship they have with other countries. Good relations or not, the fact is radiation would be involved. No government would commit that kind of political suicide. If the American people are willing to have nuke powered vehicles driving past there houses & schools that's there choice. I don't dispute the possible benefits nuke power could have. But from what I know of nuclear energy, mankind is still at least 50 to 100 yrs away from using it safely. It's bad enough were pushing the use of battery powered vehicles, which are twice as wasteful as using oil & just as much of an environmental problem. I very much doubt another world war would ever occur, there'll likely be more Iraq type situations arise in the coming years, but they'll be dealt with. Terrorism on the other can't be defeated, it never has & never will be, the US isn't winning the war on terror there just escalating it to new levels. Think of terrorists as a bunch of computer hackers......now follow that analogy through & you'll see it'll never end.

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Many of your aircraft carriers & subs are already nuke powered. As for tanks, jets & helicopters, going nuke power with them is just plain stupid. So lets just see what happens if the US's oil supply is stopped...... How many countries do you think will allow the US to fly nuke powered aircraft over there soil or let an invasion force drive nuke powered tanks across there land? Aside from the country your invading that's a big fat zero. Not to mention that these nuke powered vehicles would be spending every minute of everyday just moving personel & have absolutely no time to fight a war, remember there's no oil. Oh lets not forget the US needs permission to use another country as a staging ground or to fly aircraft in that countries air space. This isn't something new either all commercial aircraft have been subject to treaty agreements to allow them access to other countries airspace. Anyway you have all these nuke powered vehicles, tanks jets & helicopters & your oil supply is cut & six days has past, most of the US is at a stand still with all remaining oil being reservered for the military, now what happens? Well the world saw a good picture of what would happen in the US already, it was called Katrina! All US military would be brought back to the US to act as police & you'd have no way of fighting any kind of war with another country, you'd be to busy fighting yourselves. While it's true the Alberta tar sands contain the largest oil reserves in the world, there's just one little problem it's also the most expensive oil in the world to extract. In 10yrs, maybe 20yrs or 30yrs from now we may have the technology to extract it cheaply enough for the Alberta tar sands to really mean anything. But right now it's no different than the futuristic nuke ppowered tanks.

Military expansion is nothing more than a get richer scheme by the rich & powerfull, who run most countries anyway. The US like most other countries are not true Democracies, there what's known as Liberal Democracies, there isn't a true Democracy on the planet. If you want an end to terrorism & high oil prices.....learn how to conserve. Although with China's growing modernization & continual purchase of oil & oil related industries worldwide, I very much doubt we'll ever see prices go lower, artificially inflated pricing is always going to be the industry norm. The only reason the US is even in Iraq is oil, the US imports 75% of there oil & only has reserves for 5 days. Imagine that, on the 6th day the US would be totally crippled, helpless as a baby! What good is your big military if it can't go anywhere.

At the rate oil prices are going it'll be at $500 a barrel long before 2050 anyway, without it being a rarity. There's more oil in the Alberta tar sands, somewhere in the area of 300 billion barrels worth, makes that 9.5 billion barrels in Alaska look like a waste of time doesn't it. What we have here is a crisis, a crisis of greed!

The World Wildlife Fund, has a petition up you may be interested in. It's in regards to the oil drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge in Alaska, I'm also not a member of the WWF, just trying to do my part to save some of the planet. Canadian http://wwf.ca/HowYouCanHelp/DoNotDrill/donotdrill.asp US http://takeaction.worldwildlife.org/action...ep=2&item=24456

When we die we move onto the next step in our evolution, pretty simple really......why do I always have to explain this to everyone?

Day job warehouse manager, after that on the comp till I can't keep my eye's focused any longer, this usually involves writing all evening. What do I write?, well I'm a fair (maybe even good) Political journalist, but considered an expert in Canadian Constitutional (specifically the Charter of Rights) & Copyright issues. I also write on tech issues, typically discounting erroneous claims made by special interest groups, pollsters/consultants & industry groups trying to sway political leaders to there side.

I knew he was a war vet but never knew he took six bullets. Yes he's Canadian along with William Shatner He'll be missed.....RIP James!

It does say they "targeted" but doesn't actually say what they managed to take down, we'll have to wait a few days to see what they really managed to do. They'll probably release a statement claiming a major victory in the coming days...... "The investigations targeted “release groups†that are the original sources of pirated works that can be distributed worldwide in hours." This paragraph says it all "FBI agents and investigators in the other nations conducted 90 searches starting Wednesday, arresting four people, seizing hundreds of computers and shutting down at least eight major online distribution servers for pirated works." 8 servers?? that's it!!, not much of a victory if you ask me. Guess nobody told the FBI there's 1000's of servers out there distributing copyrighted material.