Interesting…

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It looks like Iran has finally agreed to suspend uranium enrichment, after first agreeing, then backing out of the agreement, and then delaying a few weeks.

Hypothesis: they wanted to delay a few weeks to get their enrichment program to a checkpoint state before any inspection regime started. Purpose could be to get it into a state where it could easily be resumed, or to get it into a state where it’s no longer obvious to inspectors. This suggests that their nuclear weapons program could be farther along than is commonly known.

Published in: on November 9, 2003 at 00:38  Comments (3)  
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Lovely line…

From an FAS report (interesting read) on the potential use of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles against passenger aircraft, a little bit of bureaucratese:

“the penalties of dropping incendiary flares on populated areas near airports are prohibitive.”

Well, I certainly can’t argue with that.

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I just received spam with the subject line “Juicy, plump, chubby girls!”

Unfortunately, I deleted it before thinking to check whether they were offering porn or cannibalism.

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Strange dreams…

Dreamt that Google had decided to become a biotech company, and I was assigned to “think of something interesting and do it.” I ended up working on sunflowers with a couple of other people; it was pretty neat. Even better was the brawl later on when some woman decided to start spraying everyone in the area with ham extract – I missed most of the melee, since by the time I got there the cops were carting people off, but a good, somewhat violent time was had by all.

Yes, this is odd. On top of this, I seem to have woken up with a pagan/Christian fusion song stuck in my head – “Magna Mater Dolorosa.” Not sure where that came from.

Published in: on November 5, 2003 at 09:36  Comments (6)  

Spy vs. Spy

OK, I’ve had enough with trying to maintain a separate subject-matter filter for politics posts. Instead I’ll just hide them behind a cut tag, so nobody is exposed to them without warning, and use an appropriate icon that conveys the seriousness and gravity of the matter.

Yup, this one should about do.

Published in: on November 5, 2003 at 00:16  Comments (3)  

Fun and games in Mother Russia

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OK, time for some general ruminations on the state of affairs w.r.t. Russia…
Long notes on oil and intelligence

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