It was clearly about control of oil reserves.

- Specifically not allowing large amounts of the worlds reserves to remain in the hands of a government deemed not co-operative to American interests.

The "IRAQ oil law " passed in 2007 takes control of oil from being nationalised under iraqi government contol and passes control to foreign, e.g US companies.

Even Alan Greenspan ex chairman of the Federal reserve has publicly admitted what those in the establishment have known from the start:

"Our leaders are doing what they "think" is the best for the world "

You live in a dreamworld if you believe that.

Oh no - looks like someone has gone one better with a magic compression algorithm

"I now know how to compress any file to 50 bytes.
The file can be of any length, and random data
compress well.

Step 1 - take your binary file, and invert every "1" bit.
Make an note in the command section to encode
the position of the original "1" bits. It is well known that
command sections never exceed about 50 bytes.

Step 2 - compress the remaining data. This is particularly
easy as it is all "0". You could just note the length.

Step 3 (optional) - if the length would take more than
about 50 bytes to represent, we can effectively compress
that too. Thus any file can be reduced to about 100 bytes.
Conceptually, we could do a third stage, but that would
only be needed if the file size was bigger than the product
of the age of the universe, and the number of known fish. "

Beat that

Flint has been challenged by "Jym" on google compression groups

OK. Then let's do the following bet.

******************************************
1/ The bet starts on Monday Spetember the first, 00:00 GMT.

2/ The bet pauses once you produce a program that implements HCM.

3/ The bet stops once a program implementing HCM has been checked to (for   
a given n of your choice)
     * Compress every n bits strings into a strictly less than n bits string
AND * Compress two different n bits strings in two different results.

4/ While the bet run and is not paused, you give me 1 euro each day.

5/ At the time the bet stops, I give you 1,000,000 euros.

******************************************

Will he take up the challenge?

yes its a math thing.

A math thing that proves what you want is impossible.

"One American is worth 100,000 third worlders"

you gotta be a mentally retarded to even say that as a joke

arsehole

Killing twats like you would be doing the world a big favour

Cougar his question was : "if you just cf/to what would the ideal ratio be "

Your reply had nothing to do with that.

Also your reply doesnt make a whole lotta sense.

"the best (most productive banker) is a POP. but you have to stay low NW so that your wizzies can protect your pop."

How do suggest A pop banker keeps a low NW ? Pop makes NW, so theres no way to have big pop and low NW.

Yell

I could understand editing a post that contained gratuitous swearing, but the whole point of that was-  its a quote that is completely relevant to the thread.

Editing that is just silly.

Oldbie yr wrong about that- 172 planets were involved, they had retaken 118 of them at that time, 54 left not retaken.

"I don't really understand why Russia is bristling so much over a defense system"

I dont think USA would be happy if russia installed a "defence system" in  mexico

oh p-lease

look up Facism = right wing

Anyone who thinks Hitler was left wing really is educationally sub-normal