Obama can't countermand the order?

Obama can't force the Iraqi's duly elected government to sign an agreement they won't sign without using force and forcibly removing said elected government that we supported. How hard is it for you to fucking understand that. They did NOT want us there anymore, and there is NOTHING anyone could have done to keep that going short of military force against the Iraqi government. Maybe we should have pulled another Bush and dissolved the existing government and watched the whole thing slide into anarchy with the US troops as the pin cushions everyone is shooting at.

Is that what you are suggesting? Obama should have used military force to force the Iraqi's to do what you think they should have? You know the American people didn't want to be there anymore either, by a WIDE margin. So fuck the Iraqi's and the American people, you will force EVERYONE to have American troops in a shithole country that doesn't make 2 whits of difference to the US.

So, the civilian uprising that happened when we left was better than the one that the Shia would have stage-managed?

Yes it would have been far worse, the Shia's and their militia's would have turned against the US harshly. The highest violence of the Iraq war was when the Shia militias and the Sunni insurgents were both attacking the US forces. Had we breached the agreement and remained it wouldn't have just been the militias, it would have been everyone. Only a fool would ignore such strong public opinion.

ISIS is a catch-22. Either you fix it from outside or acknowledge that a Caliphate is in the cards.

Or we could simply let them do their thing and let them turn the Muslim world against them. Personally I'm of the opinion that we should just let the middle east have the war that the western world has been suppressing for the last 100 years. The same war they've been fighting for the last 1000 years. But you know, fools like you that ignore history and want to play world cop just don't get it. This fight is none of our fucking business. We shouldn't risk a single American life. We should have never invaded that area to begin with and caused this whole problem and we will only make it worse by being involved.

But you are clearly the same as those fuckers that want America to play world police while cutting taxes and running up huge deficits. You want to go to war and be the worlds big bad bully but you aren't going to pay for it. You're the same as those ignorant politicians that want to ignore the bad stuff America has done in history, probably in the hope that we can do the same bad stuff over again.

This country would be far better off if we start worrying about our own problems rather than the rest of the worlds.

The Republican precedent is to NOT pay for wars. It's to kick the can down the road so the government debt to social security becomes unplayable and the whole system goes under. They've been working on this playbook for more than two decades now.

Bush signed the withdrawl order, not Obama. That's the reason people keep bringing it up. Discount history all you want.

Had we refused to leave on the withdrawal date we would have been the center of the largest civilian uprising ever. The entire country would have turned against us. The Iraqi's are uniformly against ANY foreign troops on their soil. After a 10 year occupation and millions dead I hardly blame them.

Here's something else to consider. ISIS is an end of the world cult. They believe there is going to be some final battle that ends the world in the area they control between the forces of Islam and the forces of "Rome". They NEED foreign troops to engage them to prove their end of the world scenario. You want to give them what they want?

What you mean is he should have imperialistically intervened in a grassroots campaign to overthrow a dictator and helped that dictator suppress the wants and needs of the people. Neocons like you are disgusting people.

It's time America stopped trying to play the worlds cops. These conflicts have LONG been simmering. It only ends badly when we get involved. Freedom isn't free, if these countries and people really want freedom they are going to have to shed blood and kill the fuckers that are in the way. Only then will they truly appreciate freedom and it's costs.

A foreign entity wouldn't have targeted a 20 year old weather satellite. They would have hit a major new spy sat. The only one with an interest to target a bird that old would be the US. If the argument is that it was shot down with some energy weapon the most likely perpetrator is the USA.

That Russian politician was part of the Yeltsin administration that Putin had promised immunity to when he took control. This killing is very scary politically for what it means.

They had hot baths because otherwise they didn't bathe.

China might have supported Vietnam during the US war but Vietnam and China have gone to war and not just once and if you go far enough back in history you will find China and Vietnam have been enemies far longer than they've been friends. IIRC China has actually invaded and occupied vietnam several times.

You appear to be unaware of how power is priced. I suggest you research the matter before you make comments such as the one you did.

Here's just a few things to think about.

Power prices fluctuate all day long. Residential prices are regulated at the average price the utility pays for power. This is frequently well above the price they pay for the power in all but the one or two hours a day where there is peak use.

Solar power generates the bulk of it's use when commercial power rates are the highest. So the utility is paying the customer 12 cents a kilowatt but then selling it to the business down the road for 32 cents.

Power is purchased in two ways. There are long term contracts where pricing is very low but the utility is required to take all the power. And then their is peaking power where payment is made on a supply-demand model. For example, the utility purchases their base load at somewhere around 4-5 cents a kwh, but peaking prices could reach 20+ cents.

Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich to be precise.

Instead you need to compare the costs and benefits of legalized dope

The only comparison that should be made is, does the guy smoking/drinking "X" impede on your personal rights. If the answer is no there shouldn't even be a law on the subject. Alcohol and drug prohibition do not work because they are trying to protect people from themselves. Prohibition actually makes the problem far worse by not only increasing the desire to do them, but putting crime networks behind the highly lucrative trade and sale.

Prohibition has failed twice now, it doesn't work and you'd do well to acknowledge that fact. You'd also do well to get off the Nanny state bandwagon.

Budda also abandoned his wife and children to find "enlightenment".

In the US the maximum fraud liability for any fraud reported within 24 hours of discovering the card is lost (not from when it was lost) is $50.

This is federal law, they try to stick you with anything more than $50 and they would be up for some serious penalties and as a result they won't. Most just wave the transactions because alienating a customer for $50 isn't worth it.

It doesn't matter what the technology or fraud prevention is because they simply can't charge the customer if the customer reports the fraud when it's discovered.

Geez you could at least READ the summary. I know its the basic assumption that people didn't read the article but you would think you'd do more than the editors of slashdot and actually read the summary.

eDP v1.4a will be able to support 8K displays, thanks to a segmented panel architecture known as Multi-SST Operation (MSO).

Right there in the summary exactly what you repeated like it wasn't in there.

Version 1 Neatreciepts scanner. It's a rebranded common brand with a changed USB ID. Linux recognizes it fine but on windows it's a nightmare to get it working. I have lots of examples like this where I can use it on linux but not on a new version of windows.