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QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 12, 2006 -> 07:13 PM) Under the nonproliferation treaty, Iran is allowed to enrich uranium for energy uses. That, as far as I understand it, is all that people have thus far been able to prove that they've been doing. Even the technology that they imported from Khan's network (which we already knew they did btw) has thus far only been shown to be in use for civilian purposes. We shouldn't be surprised by this...but we should take advantage of it now that we have it. I agree in principle with you, but I'll add 1 more thing...by all accounts, time is on our side. Iran simply does not have the equipment to do the job faster than within a decade. Even if they have twice as much stuff as we know about, we still have 5 years. If they're not interested in negotiating, then we'll be able to bring a much greater amount of both diplomatic pressure and eventually force in order to force them to back down. But we have to be willing to sit down first. I wonder if energy starved North Korea would be willing to give crazy I want a bomb the Zionists Iran some nuclear technology for some oil. Sounds like both sides have something the other needs, and a mutual enemy. HMMMM sound like a match made in heaven. We keep pussy footing around the obvious. Iran wants a nuclear weapon, and they want to destroy their buddies the Israelies. I know you have Professor Coles unbiased opinion on this, but I think the huge mountain of evidence that basically says, if it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and waddles like one. Maybe its a duck after all. In a few years, if we dont fix this. This will be the only way to solve the Iran crisis if they get a nuke. Glass in the desert.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ May 12, 2006 -> 10:04 PM) A smoking drunk child at that...... Her mum needs a shovel to the head to knock some sense into her for some of the silly comments she made.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ May 12, 2006 -> 09:51 PM) So was it actually a rape? It almost sounds like she's looking forward to having a baby. Last week she wanted a pony, a unicorn, and a care bear. I bet you if you ask her next week she may want a doggie. She is a child and has no common sense about ideas of sex or having babies.

QUOTE(soxhawks @ May 12, 2006 -> 09:53 PM) At least we got one win off Santana this year. This loss does not bother for antoher reason, we got to see Montero get exposed for the fraud that he is in a blowout instead of a close game. Montero is Mike Jackson redux.

Hopefully Bmac has a great start on Tuesday. Maybe it will get Ozzie thinking the next time Judy gets rocked.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 12, 2006 -> 09:21 PM) So...which is higher right now, my BAC after social hour, or Garland's WHIP? Judy was at 1.46 with the old whip before the game. You would have to drink yourself into a coma to hit that. Its hard to believe people are hitting .316 against him coming into the game. Judys ERA is now at 6.34. So far this year. He has had 2 good starts against the Royals and their terrible offense. He had a decent start agaisnt the terrible hitting Mariners. But he got rocked by the mighty twins, tigers, the angels and the royals in one game. I know last year was a fluke, but this is his worst season in a while.

So if Judy keeps getting raped on a every 5th day status, do we see Bmac out of the pen and into the rotation.

This is why I like the rainout yesterday. Judy probably s***s the bed anyway. We have a hard time beating Santana with a great effort. So his pwning of our O, and Judys crapping the bed can happen the same night. I like the rest of the matchups anyways. We should win the next 3.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ May 12, 2006 -> 08:55 PM) You must have me confused with someone else. I said BUerhle was having a better season at that point last year and he was, but quite a bit. I never once said otherwise. And I'm sure that we would all say that to Terry Ryan. But that's not what I'm talking about. Actually I call bulls*** on that. There are plenty of people that remember your little Buerhle is better than Santana stuff. You changed it to, well he is better at that point after the season ended because I called you on it enough.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ May 12, 2006 -> 08:52 PM) LOL. Uh no. Jose is dominating Santana so far this year. I'm sure Santana will get into Santana-esque numbers, but even if he does, it's not as good as JOse if he keeps it up. BUt who knows if he will. That's why I said it'll be interesting to see where they are. Jose has been the best pitcher in baseball since the All-star break last year til right now though and it's not particularly close. Your the same guy who said you would take Buerhle over Johan. Trust me if Kenny could trade one of our starters straight up for Johan, he would say have your pick TR.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ May 12, 2006 -> 08:48 PM) Might as well let him save our bullpen for the series. Pitch as long as he can. At least if Judy is going to pitch like this maybe we should flip flop him and Bmac. The money he makes now is silly, but he hasnt shown too much improvement outside of facing the mighty royals offense.

Happy Birthday

Too bad the hunters never caught Manbearpig. Now that is something to have a story about.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 11, 2006 -> 11:55 PM) How many times have we actually sat ourselves down for 1 on 1 negotiations with North Korea in the past 6 years? How high of a priority was it for us when North Korea announced they were going to build the bomb in late 2002, and then we detected signatures of them reprocessing fuel rods along the DMZ in early 2003? Why exactly were we unwilling to offer up a non-aggression pact with that nation? Neither side has negotiated in good faith in those discussions. And it wound up with NK getting the bomb. Where would the harm have been in actually trying? So here's the one argument I will make on Iran. And saying "It won't work" doesn't even do it damage, because it's so strong. According to the current CIA estimates, Iran is 10 years from a bomb. We won't be invading Iran this year, or most likely next year. Our allies are in no shape to do so, and neither is our army. Even if those CIA estimates are off by a factor of 2, we still have 5 years. So what exactly is the harm in trying? If it fails, so what, it fails, and suddenly we find ourselves replete with allies because we actually tried. If it succeeds, we avoid a war, the price of oil plummets, and thousands to millions of lives are saved. There is absolutely no reason not to at least try to sit down with Iran right now, at a summit, face to face, and try to negotiate a settlement that prevents Iran from getting the bomb. If a year from now it totally fails, then all it's done is take a year that we'd spend trying to rebuild our army anyway, and made us look a lot better in the eyes of the countries who might help out. Right now, the price of peace with that country is as low as its ever going to get. From here on out, the price of oil will only go up, which will make Iran stronger and less willing to negotiate, and make China and Russia even more obstinate. Iran will only get closer to the bomb, which will make them less likely to negotiate. And they know the U.S. can't invade right now, which gives them motivation to settle this now before the U.S. army returns to full force. Things will only get harder the longer we wait. And it is absolutely impossible for there to be any harm done to the U.S. by sitting down and negotiating. Those estimates are based on Iran developing all of the technology by themselves. As we have seen with Korea you can get some help from the outside to accelerate your nuclear program. Korea already sends their missle technology over for money, why not some tips and tricks on how to get around the difficult technical problems of nuclear weapons. I have the stomach to sit with the peace process, I hope you have the stomach if we have to detonate a thermonuclear weapon over Tehran in about 5 to 10 years.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 12, 2006 -> 10:29 AM) Of course...when you avoid speaking out against the President or his war, avoid donating to alternative candidates, and never worry that you're somehow going to go to an airport and discover you've been put on a no-fly list, you have nothing to worry about. Oh, unless your name winds up resembling a terrorist, like that guy in Oregon a year ago or so. I love the tinfoil hat talk. You really need to put down your copy of 1984 and realize that the government really doesnt care about Joe Citizen. I doubt if they care about Joe Liberal like yourself. They care about Joe Bin Laden and his phone calls.

I could care less if the government knows who I call or who calls me or if they listen to my calls. I have always assumed that the shared media transport of our phone system is not a private system. I say things on the phone that I could care less that the world knows. You realize that when you talk on your cell phone that the signal is not point to point, that a doppler affect happens and the signal kind of goes everywhere. The weak levels of encryption and data obstification can be cracked by a person with minimal technology skills, a credit card, and your local Radio Shack. There are websites where people can just buy your records. If you use Vonage or any other VOIP technology, your phone calls go out unencrypted and can be hijacked just like any other data stream. I would suggest that if you are so worried and paranoid then invoke some technology and you can sleep better at night. Phones. Use something like Skype, which is from the creators of KaZaa. It uses a peer to peer model that is based on an encrypted data stream with a AES cipher. Then again if the person on the other side isnt using Skype then you are screwed. So make sure everyone you know uses it and the big bad government cant get you. Use point to point encryption software such as stunnel and use a chat client to connect a voip call. Data Your email is open the minute you click send. Its in clear text and anyone can intercept it. If your payload or your message is to sensitive. Use a strong bit cipher encryption package to encrypt your email. You can use PGP, however I would suggest using Twofish, Blowfish, or AES to encrypt your payload. Also make sure that you md5 hash your entire operating system, and burn the hashes to a RO drive. Then compare your binaries to it for verification that the government didnt hijack your system. Also make sure that you are running a rootkit revealer to make sure your application layer is not lying to you. In reality, we all take risks when we use electronic mediums for communications. I would be more worried about spyware, and people trying to make your system into a botnet than I would be on the NSA listening to my wife and her mom discuss recipes. In the end we are talking about pedabytes if not exabytes of data. Search filters are used most likely with some artificial intelligence to get hits. This is a mountain of data, so really do you think that there is an analyst that has enough time to sit and listen to you blabbing to your friend about the sox or how your day was, probably not.

Well it takes all kinds I guess. The class action claim filed by Michael Cohn, a Los Angeles psychologist, alleges that thousands of males and fans under age 18 are entitled to $4,000 in damages each because they were treated unequally at last May's promotion. Women over 18 received the gifts. My favorite quote "They claimed they didn't have any more bags, but my client said there was a mountain of bags stacked so high a show dog couldn't have jumped over them," said Alfred Rava, Cohn's San Diego-based attorney.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 11, 2006 -> 03:26 PM) Here are 2 more attempts at translating the whole paragraph of Ahmadinejad's speech. In both of them, if you read the full thing and don't focus on that 1 clause alone, it becomes clear that the clause you're questioning is taken as happening the same way as the overthrow of the Shah. I give up, he is a real sweet guy who is just mistranslated.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 11, 2006 -> 02:48 PM) "wiped off the map" is the most specific mistranslation. In fact, that particular phrase doesn't even exist in Farsi. Here's a different translation, with context, from Professor Cole (U Michigan) The one quick question you should ask yourself with a quote like that is...how American does it sound? To me, the phrase "Wiped off the map" makes perfect sense and I know its exact meaning, but that is a slang American phrase. Without the context, its direct translation would basically be me literally taking a map and cleaning it. In other words, the exact same slang phrase would have to exist in Farsi for that to be what Ahmadinejad said, and given how unique slang is in this country, the odds of that boggle my mind. This guy is not a good guy, but we're going to get ourselves into trouble if we let the wrong people doing translations make policy for us. Cole's translation is biased and his motives are horses***. He is an apologist for all things crazy. I am sure that he would translate Ossama Bin Laden video as a guy who said he is sorry for the towers falling. Here is the original arabic. srail ghiyam-e mossalahaane bar zed-e mamaalek-e eslami nemoodeh ast va bar doval va mamaalek-eeslami ghal-o-gham aan lazem ast. Here is the translation from the Institute for Imam Khomeini. Israel has declared armed struggle against Islamic countries and its destruction is a must for all governments and nations of Islam. Maybe the history professor knows more farsi than I, but I dont think he knows more than the rest of the world. He is just putting his bulls*** slant on it, just like he does with all of his crazy terrorist do no wrong crap.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 11, 2006 -> 01:46 PM) First of all, Ahmadinejad is not in command of Iran's military, so even if he wanted to do that, he'd have a bit of a problem...Ayatollah Khameni is actually at the top. Secondly, I believe that his statement that he doesn't want to see Israel exist has been massively misinterpreted. Most people have bought into him saying that Iran would attack Israel with that remark. I think that other translations have strongly suggested he was actually quoting something Khomeni said about the Soviet Union...saying basically that he hoped it would vanish from time or something to that effect. Basically it was a statement calling for something akin to regime change...his words were almost a direct quote from Khomeni, and Khomeni had no intention of attacking the Soviets when he said them. He's not a nice guy, and yes he is a holocaust denier, etc., but thus far, the evidence doesn't show him willing to launch an aggressive war against Israel. \ Massively misinterpreted? Are you serious? Ahmadinejad has repeatedly spoken out against Israel and provoked a world outcry in October when he said Israel should be “wiped off the map.” Do you really think this means that he is pushing for elections to remove the jews from israel. Or to the fact that he wants them wiped ou. Come on now. You cant sugar coat the Iranian president.

QUOTE(Wealz @ May 11, 2006 -> 01:50 PM) Depends where it's made up. The Angels could say that was our last trip to Chicago, have them play the make up game when their back in town in September. I dont think thats how it works. We had to go to Boston last year and play a makeup game in September.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ May 11, 2006 -> 11:06 AM) I was logged in and tried to load the chat and got this Just FYI Jas, I got the same thing as kyyle. I am using Suns latest JRE jre1.5.0_06. I use java all the time in Firefox to manage some equipment via a web browser.

QUOTE(Wealz @ May 11, 2006 -> 01:34 PM) No doubt this is a bit of gamesmanship by the Sox since their bullpen could use a day off with the re-shuffling of roles due to Contreras' injury and Haeger's less than stellar performance last night. It actually doesn't look too bad here in Oak Lawn. Kudos to the organization for puting winning in front of profits. They will get the profits and more in fact with a rainout today. Do you think there will be more people buying this ticket now with a rainy day, or maybe in August when the races heat up and School is out.

QUOTE(SoxPride56 @ May 11, 2006 -> 01:26 PM) Your right, tonights game has been canceled, an announcement will be coming within an hour. That sets up the next series as Santana vs Garland Radke vs Vazquez Silva vs Buerhle Baker vs Garcia Brandon will then go against the Drays next week. And then it sets up the Cubs series as Buerhle, Garcia and the Count going against the flubbers. I like it.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 11, 2006 -> 01:06 PM) During the Cuban missile crisis, Nikita Kruschev sent 2 letters within 2 days to Kennedy, one saying the Russians would remove the missiles if the U.S. pledged not to invade Cuba, and another saying the Russians would remove the missiles if the U.S. removed its missiles from Turkey. The Kennedy admin. decided to ignore the 2nd letter and accepted the offer from the first letter. The Iranians may have learned a lesson from that. It appears that one of Ayatollah Khameni's representatives has sent a 2nd letter to the U.S., which both decries some U.S. actions but also offers more sound basis for negotiations than the rambling letter that Ahmadinjad's sent to Bush a few days ago. This is nothing new. This guy was on one show last week talking one way, while his president talks another. One is a direct letter to the president, and this is something from a lower level guy. This is smoke and mirrors to keep things moving so they can keep the status quo going on. The President of Iran doesnt think Israel should exist. He questioned its existance in the previous letter, in all of his ramblings. He belongs to a religious sect that believes that when a war between the arabs and jews happen that Mohammed will come to save the world. He is insane. I see Iran getting a nuke, then lobbing it over to Israel and waiting for Mohammed to save them.