The domain you get email through is no different than your area code. I've got a mobile with a 503 area code still, hasn't been a problem in 907, even though 503 is about 2000 miles away.
The domain one uses, as long as it is safe for work, doesn't matter. So aol, hotmail, gmail, myname shouldn't matter, but this is/. so we're going to throw out the arguement and let people air their elitist ideas about how the domain *does* matter cause aol ain't cool.
So right now there are really three expanding super nations going on.
The US - trying it through hegemony - cultural and technology hegemony is the focus (technology, especially tying in militaries and military tech - EU/Israel/Turkey/Japan and now India)
Russia - trying to do it more like the Soviets, saber rattling and nukes - trying to regain what the Soviet Union lost.
China - trying to expand to what the Party thinks the borders of Greater China should be while modernizing 1.3 billion people.
The US and Russia are the weak ones right now, the US is dealing with crushing debt, while Russia has serious problems being tied to raw materials for wealth and a failing infrastructure, but China is more dependent on raw material imports than the US.
I think in the next 25 years the Russians and Chinese will clash.
India and Brazil are going to drift towards the US I think, Brazil will start to influence South America and west Africa more.
Nonsense. Third World doesn't mean primitive or poor, it means under developed, nonaligned, and or nondemocratic.
India was considered third world for much of the Cold War, yet it developed a space program and nuclear program. Same with Pakistan. Zimbabwe has been third world by all measures since it became a state, yet until recently it was a net exporter and was economically strong for the region.
Actually, prohibition wasn't so much a religious movement, but a pan-belief movement.
There were the religious groups, anti-immigrant groups (they didn't like the beer and alcohol drinking cultures from central, eastern and southern Europe), and the biggest part were was the suffrage movement.
Hegemony and empire are different. I think of it as how the cultural influence borders in Civ 3 worked.
While Europe Slept is a good book (written by someone on the American Left) that talks about American pervasive cultural influence in Europe along side Islam and the lack of a pan-European culture.
I'm a Cold War historian, so I do think of Third World as non-alligned, non-Democratic and/or non-NATO/non-WP.
Think about it, Africa and the Middle East for example, the nations that developed were the ones that aligned with NATO members - South Africa, Israel, Saudi, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Bahrain, Iran, UAE while Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Iraq languished behind.
Autos - yes there are many cars built in the US. GM, Ford, Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, and others all build cars and trucks in the United States. Like normal cars. The idea that all Americans drive are SUVs (a Hummer is an SUV) is ignorant.
Semiconductors - Since you don't know the Intel fab in Israel is at Kiryat Gat, not part of Jerusalem, the fabs in Oregon are currently the most advanced fabs, then Arizona, Israel follow suit technology wise.
Food - Many nations can't provide enough food for their own people. Russia is a prime example for importing wheat. Being able to produce and export food is a big deal as only six nations export 90% of the planet's grain exports.
Where do the enlightened researchers and engineers go in the world? To the United States.
Yes, the US is a superpower. The EU, China, Russia are great powers, but the US is the last superpower.
"A superpower is a state with a leading position in the international system and the ability to influence events and its own interests and project power on a worldwide scale to protect those interests; it is traditionally considered to be one step higher than a great power."
"It was a term first applied in 1944 to the United States, the Soviet Union, and the British Empire. Following World War II, as the British Empire transformed itself into the Commonwealth and its territories became independent, the Soviet Union and the United States generally came to be regarded as the only two superpowers, and confronted each other in the Cold War."
In 20 years the US will still be a Superpower, the EU might also rise to that, if they start to project power, as will China, if they make the right strategic investments in military systems.
Canada and the US have fought since 1867? Over salmon maybe and I've not seen the White House burned since Canada became a nation.
Oh you mean the War of 1812...the units that took Washington were British Army and Royal Navy units from the Peninsular War which attacked Washington because the Americans burned the capital of British Upper Canada.
Name another state that can project tens to hundreds of thousands of troops across the planet and fight for eight years. Name another state that has more than three aircraft carriers. Name another state that has more than ten aircraft carrier battlegroups. Name another state with more than half of the top 500 super computers - http://www.top500.org/stats/list/34/countries
The United States has a list of strengths no other nation or union of nations possesses. Russia has the natural resources, military technology and nukes but not the industrial base and ability to project power. While the US got involved with Iraq, Serbia, Afghanistan while bolstering South Korea, Israel and Kuwait, Russia was bogged down in Chechnya.
The EU has the industrial might and military technology and a good number of nukes, but little ability to project power and no political will to do so. Only the UK and France regularly use offensive military operations, but their militaries are a fraction of the US. The UK has maybe 3 division equivalents while France has 2.
China has older industrial might, older military technology and some nukes, but like Russia and the EU and everyone else can't project power. Going across the Straights of Taiwan will be the biggest thing China could do and even in the next 20 years, thats iffy.
"The term Third World arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned or neutral with either capitalism and NATO." When the US pulls out of NATO and becomes neutral, then it will be a Third World country.
As for empire, the US is not imperial, it is a hegemony.
"The most successful "terrorist" revolt in history was instigated by the middle and professional classes in the 13 colonies of the US."
Trolling or just ignorant? Anyway the Continental Congresses started out by establishing what North American colonies wanted, the United Kingdom debated but ultimately ignored it. Some of the colonies declared independence, the United Kingdom fought this, there was an open war. Just like the American Civil War rather than Algerian Independence from France.
The American Revolution was more like British Civil War than a Vietnam War. There were irregular forces fighting an irregular war on the frontier, and in the South, but for the vast majority of battles it was open and regular warfare. No blowing up ships or bombings in London.
Nope, most of the engineering degreed terrorists went to school in Europe, further more, most don't come from the oil-rich states, but from the Yemen/Sudan/Egypt/PA type states. Yes, most on 9/11 were Saudi, but even then the free educations in Saudi Arabia are in theology, not engineering.
Atta went to school in Germany, Yahya Ayyash got a engineering degree from BZU*, Ramzi Binalshibh was Yemeni and went to school in Germany.
And this connection isn't new, the Israelis talked about it in the book "The Hunt for the Engineer", Kaplan talked about it, engineering and terrorism have been linked for a decade or so.
* - I just missed being on the Egged 36 bus when Yahya Ayyash bombed it.
To treat nerve pain and Trigeminal neuralgia. Its a Medtronics and it's mounted pretty high up my spine, C-1, C-2 and C-3. Its mounted in my chest, right over my heart with wires across my chest through my shoulder and to my spine.
From my experience, it's not going to become a "niche cosmetic neurostim market", not for say 10-15 years. They are bulky, the wires are thick and I lost 30% strength and 40% of my mobility in the shoulder the wires run through.
"Quaternary glaciation, also known as the Pleistocene glaciation, the current ice age or simply the ice age, refers to the period of the last few million years (2.58 Ma to present) in which permanent ice sheets were established in Antarctica and perhaps Greenland, and fluctuating ice sheets have occurred elsewhere (for example, the Laurentide ice sheet)."
I don't think you understand numbers well. 120 m >.8-1.2 m
The ice age has never ended, the Earth has been in an ice age for 2.58 million years, this is an interglacial period where the glacial remnants, are receding. So right now the planet is between expansion of the glaciers.
The Dryas were very fast changes, much faster and more dramatic than anything thats going to happen in the next 100 years.
Which is the entire point, you say nothing has ever happened as dramatically or as fast as AGW is modeled to cause, but you know what, the very recent past shows much bigger climatic changes.
"During the glacial periods, what we see as the normal (i.e. interglacial) hydrologic system was completely interrupted throughout large areas of the world and was considerably modified in others. Due to the volume of ice on land, sea level was approximately 120 meters lower than present."
Compare to - "Values for predicted sea level rise over the course of the next century typically range from 90 to 880 mm, with a central value of 480 mm. Based on an analog to the deglaciation of North America at 9,000 years before present, some scientists predict sea level rise of 1.3 metres in the next century."
12,000 years ago the sea level rose 120 meters in a couple centuries, I'd say its much more dramatic than.8-1.3 meters.
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Against a Dark Background would lend itself to TV more than Culture, I think. Limited scope, it'd make a good fusion of Firefly and BSG.
Who to play Sharrow though?
Sorry but that's BS.
The domain you get email through is no different than your area code. I've got a mobile with a 503 area code still, hasn't been a problem in 907, even though 503 is about 2000 miles away.
This is all about elitism and stereotyping here.
The domain one uses, as long as it is safe for work, doesn't matter. So aol, hotmail, gmail, myname shouldn't matter, but this is /. so we're going to throw out the arguement and let people air their elitist ideas about how the domain *does* matter cause aol ain't cool.
American Indian healers were known as Shaman or Medicine Men, not witch doctors.
The Huffington Post is not a very good source for scientific articles.
For example, its a prime supporter of the Anti-Vax crowd.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/autism-vaccine-mercury
Barbaric societies generally didn't do research, so you lack a point.
By your standard Nazi Germany is going to be among the highest and least barbaric of modern societies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_welfare_in_Nazi_Germany
"...those who "still think they can continue to treat animals as inanimate property" will be sent to concentration camps."
Animal testing isn't just for disease, but for drugs, tape, sutures, everything.
Computer models aren't going to solve everything, animal testing and human tests will continue on for decades.
Explain to me how using a rat or a cat to test something that will save 1,000 human lives is barbaric and uncivilized.
How about a form that consents to animal testing or they don't get treated with anything that was developed with animals?
In a generation the absurd notion that animal testing is bad will die out.
I understand what you mean.
So right now there are really three expanding super nations going on.
The US - trying it through hegemony - cultural and technology hegemony is the focus (technology, especially tying in militaries and military tech - EU/Israel/Turkey/Japan and now India)
Russia - trying to do it more like the Soviets, saber rattling and nukes - trying to regain what the Soviet Union lost.
China - trying to expand to what the Party thinks the borders of Greater China should be while modernizing 1.3 billion people.
The US and Russia are the weak ones right now, the US is dealing with crushing debt, while Russia has serious problems being tied to raw materials for wealth and a failing infrastructure, but China is more dependent on raw material imports than the US.
I think in the next 25 years the Russians and Chinese will clash.
India and Brazil are going to drift towards the US I think, Brazil will start to influence South America and west Africa more.
Nonsense. Third World doesn't mean primitive or poor, it means under developed, nonaligned, and or nondemocratic.
India was considered third world for much of the Cold War, yet it developed a space program and nuclear program. Same with Pakistan. Zimbabwe has been third world by all measures since it became a state, yet until recently it was a net exporter and was economically strong for the region.
Actually, prohibition wasn't so much a religious movement, but a pan-belief movement.
There were the religious groups, anti-immigrant groups (they didn't like the beer and alcohol drinking cultures from central, eastern and southern Europe), and the biggest part were was the suffrage movement.
And it wasn't just the US, they did it in 1914 to 1925 in Russia and the Soviet Union, Canada, Iceland and other non-Islamic states -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_Russian_Empire_and_Soviet_Union
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperance_movement#United_States
Hegemony and empire are different. I think of it as how the cultural influence borders in Civ 3 worked.
While Europe Slept is a good book (written by someone on the American Left) that talks about American pervasive cultural influence in Europe along side Islam and the lack of a pan-European culture.
I'm a Cold War historian, so I do think of Third World as non-alligned, non-Democratic and/or non-NATO/non-WP.
Think about it, Africa and the Middle East for example, the nations that developed were the ones that aligned with NATO members - South Africa, Israel, Saudi, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Bahrain, Iran, UAE while Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Iraq languished behind.
Bzzzt wrong again...
Try looking at the link I posted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States_by_sector
Information - 2.8 billion
Autos - yes there are many cars built in the US. GM, Ford, Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, and others all build cars and trucks in the United States. Like normal cars. The idea that all Americans drive are SUVs (a Hummer is an SUV) is ignorant.
Semiconductors - Since you don't know the Intel fab in Israel is at Kiryat Gat, not part of Jerusalem, the fabs in Oregon are currently the most advanced fabs, then Arizona, Israel follow suit technology wise.
Food - Many nations can't provide enough food for their own people. Russia is a prime example for importing wheat. Being able to produce and export food is a big deal as only six nations export 90% of the planet's grain exports.
You aren't ranting, just ignorant. Its OK.
What does the United States make anymore?
Software
Aircraft
Microprocessors
Automobiles
Food
And a crapload more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States
Where do the enlightened researchers and engineers go in the world? To the United States.
Yes, the US is a superpower. The EU, China, Russia are great powers, but the US is the last superpower.
"A superpower is a state with a leading position in the international system and the ability to influence events and its own interests and project power on a worldwide scale to protect those interests; it is traditionally considered to be one step higher than a great power."
"It was a term first applied in 1944 to the United States, the Soviet Union, and the British Empire. Following World War II, as the British Empire transformed itself into the Commonwealth and its territories became independent, the Soviet Union and the United States generally came to be regarded as the only two superpowers, and confronted each other in the Cold War."
In 20 years the US will still be a Superpower, the EU might also rise to that, if they start to project power, as will China, if they make the right strategic investments in military systems.
"TSA fails to account for any manner of diversity in the human population. Anyone who doesn't conform to the gender stereotype."
Gender isn't a stereotype, its biological.
Canada and the US have fought since 1867? Over salmon maybe and I've not seen the White House burned since Canada became a nation.
Oh you mean the War of 1812...the units that took Washington were British Army and Royal Navy units from the Peninsular War which attacked Washington because the Americans burned the capital of British Upper Canada.
The US isn't the world's superpower?
Name another state that can project tens to hundreds of thousands of troops across the planet and fight for eight years.
Name another state that has more than three aircraft carriers.
Name another state that has more than ten aircraft carrier battlegroups.
Name another state with more than half of the top 500 super computers - http://www.top500.org/stats/list/34/countries
The United States has a list of strengths no other nation or union of nations possesses. Russia has the natural resources, military technology and nukes but not the industrial base and ability to project power. While the US got involved with Iraq, Serbia, Afghanistan while bolstering South Korea, Israel and Kuwait, Russia was bogged down in Chechnya.
The EU has the industrial might and military technology and a good number of nukes, but little ability to project power and no political will to do so. Only the UK and France regularly use offensive military operations, but their militaries are a fraction of the US. The UK has maybe 3 division equivalents while France has 2.
China has older industrial might, older military technology and some nukes, but like Russia and the EU and everyone else can't project power. Going across the Straights of Taiwan will be the biggest thing China could do and even in the next 20 years, thats iffy.
Do you understand what a Third World country is?
"The term Third World arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned or neutral with either capitalism and NATO." When the US pulls out of NATO and becomes neutral, then it will be a Third World country.
As for empire, the US is not imperial, it is a hegemony.
Novell should me on the list, in 2000 they still had a good chunk of the LAN, sure down from say 1995, but a chunk, now where are they?
SGI should be on the list as well.
30 users, 2.5 techs. One does half tech and travel scheduling. All Macs, all two years older or newer.
"The most successful "terrorist" revolt in history was instigated by the middle and professional classes in the 13 colonies of the US."
Trolling or just ignorant? Anyway the Continental Congresses started out by establishing what North American colonies wanted, the United Kingdom debated but ultimately ignored it. Some of the colonies declared independence, the United Kingdom fought this, there was an open war. Just like the American Civil War rather than Algerian Independence from France.
The American Revolution was more like British Civil War than a Vietnam War. There were irregular forces fighting an irregular war on the frontier, and in the South, but for the vast majority of battles it was open and regular warfare. No blowing up ships or bombings in London.
Nope, most of the engineering degreed terrorists went to school in Europe, further more, most don't come from the oil-rich states, but from the Yemen/Sudan/Egypt/PA type states. Yes, most on 9/11 were Saudi, but even then the free educations in Saudi Arabia are in theology, not engineering.
Atta went to school in Germany, Yahya Ayyash got a engineering degree from BZU*, Ramzi Binalshibh was Yemeni and went to school in Germany.
And this connection isn't new, the Israelis talked about it in the book "The Hunt for the Engineer", Kaplan talked about it, engineering and terrorism have been linked for a decade or so.
* - I just missed being on the Egged 36 bus when Yahya Ayyash bombed it.
To treat nerve pain and Trigeminal neuralgia. Its a Medtronics and it's mounted pretty high up my spine, C-1, C-2 and C-3. Its mounted in my chest, right over my heart with wires across my chest through my shoulder and to my spine.
From my experience, it's not going to become a "niche cosmetic neurostim market", not for say 10-15 years. They are bulky, the wires are thick and I lost 30% strength and 40% of my mobility in the shoulder the wires run through.
I'm not redefining ice age. My goodness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_glaciation
"Quaternary glaciation, also known as the Pleistocene glaciation, the current ice age or simply the ice age, refers to the period of the last few million years (2.58 Ma to present) in which permanent ice sheets were established in Antarctica and perhaps Greenland, and fluctuating ice sheets have occurred elsewhere (for example, the Laurentide ice sheet)."
I don't think you understand numbers well. 120 m > .8-1.2 m
The ice age has never ended, the Earth has been in an ice age for 2.58 million years, this is an interglacial period where the glacial remnants, are receding. So right now the planet is between expansion of the glaciers.
The Dryas were very fast changes, much faster and more dramatic than anything thats going to happen in the next 100 years.
Which is the entire point, you say nothing has ever happened as dramatically or as fast as AGW is modeled to cause, but you know what, the very recent past shows much bigger climatic changes.
"During the glacial periods, what we see as the normal (i.e. interglacial) hydrologic system was completely interrupted throughout large areas of the world and was considerably modified in others. Due to the volume of ice on land, sea level was approximately 120 meters lower than present."
Compare to - "Values for predicted sea level rise over the course of the next century typically range from 90 to 880 mm, with a central value of 480 mm. Based on an analog to the deglaciation of North America at 9,000 years before present, some scientists predict sea level rise of 1.3 metres in the next century."
12,000 years ago the sea level rose 120 meters in a couple centuries, I'd say its much more dramatic than .8-1.3 meters.