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Mushroom Cloud Reported Over North Korea
cbrocious writes "Yahoo! News is reporting a mushroom cloud over North Korea that occured on Thursday in Yanggang province near the border with China. 'The explosion in Kim Hyong Jik county blasted a crater big enough to be noticed by a satellite, the source said.'"
Just like in Jakarta, also Thursday.
latin, which actually has a predictable structure.
WTF are you talking about? Do you actually know any latin?
Because if you did, you'd probably know Latin is quite the other way around. The six cases make sentence word order almost irrelevant, and therefore, nearly any word order can constitute a valid sentence.
How is that a "predictable structure"? Further reading.
when you think of all the neural activity and cognitive skills required to identify piss in a boot, and then the motor control and coordination required to actually empty it, it really is a miracle of sorts, isn't it?
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
Is that like Kazaa?
Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'.
Probably not.
I might not be a wit, but at least I am more than half way there.
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Your example of the AIDS help that America gives to Africa is just one small example of the terrible hypocrisy that plagues the American hating world. No other country has sacrificed so much and given so much for complete strangers
A quick Google led me to the verification of a counter-argument to the AIDS protestors. I had heard that the United States federal government spends more on AIDS research than the rest of the world, combined. So this is not counting private research efforts, which expands this gap even further. I found out the precise claim is that America, in fiscal 2002 and 2003, spent more than the rest of the world combined. Accounting for fully 50% of global expenditures in each of 2002 and 2003 is not as impressive a claim as spending more in one year than the rest of the world combined, but it is still a metric assload of money, considering America is not the source of 50% of AIDS cases in the world (source).
But wait, there's more. American taxpayers, starting with the current fiscal year, are spending not just more than the rest of the world's nations combined, but nearly twice as much! So we are going from about 50% to nearly 200% in one year, and it's still not enough for these protestors! So why are we still spat upon? Apparently because:
I'm incredulous at this point. Let me see if I have this right. Because we decide not to fund the UN effort, for whatever reason, we are the equivalent of evil incarnate, as if we spent zero on AIDS activities. Let's say for the sake of argument we don't quite trust the UN with a big wad of cash (ever seen an audit of UN finances that will stand up to scrutiny?) and try for once to be responsible with how taxpayer dollars are spent. The net result, whatever the root cause of the decision not to go through the UN, is someone's pet organization is maligned.
So instead of saying, "well, it's your money so you get to spend it the best way you see fit," or try to make UN finances transparent to the outside world so we can actually trust them with tons of cash, or do something constructive to find out why the UN was not chosen and fix that, they point the fingers at them dirty Americans and scream that we're just religious nutcases that want to bomb the rest of the world into mega-corporation submission. At the same time we don't choose the UN as the recipient of the increased funding, we still spend so much of our tax dollars on the UN AIDS organization we supposedly don't care about that we outstrip every other nation's funding for that very organization! And we're still hated for it!? Honestly, I don't even know why we Americans even try to be more nice than absolutely necessary to maintain civil but cool relationships with those who won't be satisfied no matter what we do. We're going to be hated and vilified regardless of our actions.
I guarantee you that if an American mega-corporate pharmaceutical finds a cure for AIDS, it still won't be enough for these protestors. They'll have to take a loss "for the good of mankind", and sell it at or below cost.