Or there would have been a total breakthrough by the Allies and Germany would have been totally divided by France, Britain and Italy.
The US entry into WWI is part of ending the war, however the US isn't responsable for post war German feeling, the break up of the German overseas empire or the post-war humiliation of Germany.
After living with that Iguana for 16 years, I know he makes choices when he wants to.
Like when told to "stop running across the room!" He will skirt the walls, trying to avoid detection, to get to his goal. Or if he's been locked in his room because humans have been on vacation, he will spend two or three weeks trying to get to my shoes so he can poop in them. Not any shoes, just his owner's shoes.
Observe Ravens in an urban setting, they make rational choices, observe food and objects closely, test for traps, coordinate as a group, it's not just instinct.
"The fox which digs a hole which exposes the worm and the bird which takes the worm don't really have the capacity to make a choice."
If you'd spent anytime observing birds and bird behavior, you'd know that some birds very well have the capacity to make a choice. Humans aren't the only animals on the planet that kill other members of their own species or members of other species just for the sake of killing or territory.
I have an older (16 year old) Green Iguana who understands the concept of glass and doors,* he will go taunt smaller lizards (Central Inland Bearded Dragons, Uromasytxs) who don't understand how glass works. He will get them spun up with head bobs, then leave to go piss off the others, once all the smaller lizards are upset, he will retire to his room to bask.
* - Not all lizard species understand what glass is, even larger ones like Agamid lizards, so they spent hours "glass surfing". Monitors and Iguana often figure out what glass is, and sometimes even mirrors.
3-4x the overall US tax rate is up into the 99-120% rates, I've lived overseas and taxes weren't that high.
US - Income Tax 0–35% (federal) 0–10.55% (states) - note I now live in a 0% state, its really nice. US - Payroll Tax - 15.3–2.9% US - Sales Tax - 0-10.25% (states and local) - note I live in a 0% state and city, really nice US - top bracket in highest tax area would be 60.25%, lowest employed person will be 2.9%
I paid something like 19-20% with Federal, misc taxes and fuel tax in 2010.
US taxation as GDP is 26.9%, Denmark is the most taxed country in the world with a tax-to-GDP ratio of 48.9%
Farming labor in the US isn't restricted by minimum wage, so farmers in Georgia could hire documented migrant workers and pay them less than minimum wage still, but they won't they are trying to create an issue so there are still illegal workers they can pay even less and threaten them with deportation.
We didn't put Germany into the economic situation it was in following World War I, the United Kingdom, France and Italy did.
In January 1921, the total sum due was decided by an Inter-Allied Reparations Commission and was set at 269 billion gold marks (the equivalent of around 100,000 tonnes of pure gold), about £13 billion or US$64 billion ($785 billion in 2011). The US pushed and pushed to lower the sum, first with the Dawes Plan and then with the Young Plan.
Belgium, the United Kingdom, and certain British Dominions, France, and Japan all took German territories overseas while France, Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, Belgium and Czechoslovakia took German territory in Europe, the United States didn't take German territory, didn't steal German industry, the US rejected Versailles because Congress and the American public thought it was too harsh.
Yes the US "lost" the Vietnam War, we bombed the North into a peace treaty with the US and South Vietnam, Congress stopping providing military aid to North Vietnam, then after the bulk of US forces had left South Vietnam the North invaded and overran the country. So a nation that wasn't defeated in any major battle, who had a peace treaty and didn't have forces there anymore "failed" when South Vietnam was over run.
Mexico isn't a poor country though, it just has a terrible income equality ratio. The poor in Mexico are very poor while the rich are very rich.
Many of the "Mexicans" coming to the US aren't actually from Mexico, but from farther south who are escaping through Mexico to get to the US, oh and the War on Drugs and Narco Gangs isn't helping.
But it's not an invasion, calling it an invasion shows that you don't know what an invasion is.
An invasion is a military offensive consisting of all, or large parts of the armed forces of one geopolitical entity aggressively entering territory controlled by another such entity. Until brigade sized units of the Ejercito Mexicano roll into Arizona, it's not an invasion.
Until the 2010 model year, it used the LNJ, made in China for the Chinese and Canadian market and the LY7.
Now it uses the LY7 V6, which is a new technology V6, from 2004 on, and the LAF i4, which has been built in various versions since the early 70s for US, Australia, Brazil, Europe and the Middle East.
LNJ is a 60 degree GM V-6, it's been in constant production since 1980, sorry I missed the 4 cylinder, the LAF, its family has only been in production since the early 70s.
But you are right about the LY7, it's newer 2004-on
The LNJ isn't in the Equinox anymore, and when it was it was only Chinese and Canadian.
Tesla Roadster - 0 to 60 mph (0 to 97 km/h) in 3.9 seconds, 14-mile (0.40 km) test at 12.6 sec giving 102.6 mph, top speed 125 mph Ferrari 458 Italia - 0-100 km/h (62 mph) acceleration is under 3.4 seconds, 14-mile (0.40 km) test at 11.5 at 125 mph, top speed 202 mph
A Tesla Roadster isn't even Corvette Z06 class 2010 Chevy Corvette Z06 - 0-60 mph time of 3.6 seconds and 1/4 mile in 11.8 seconds at 122 mph, top speed 192 - for 25,000 less than a Roadster
You aren't going through "a couple feet of snow" in a full sized truck either unless you have a snow plow on the front.
As soon as the snow is deep enough to start rubbing against your undercarriage as you go through it, you'll loose momentum and/or get high centered on it.
Even with snow tires and chains, in really deep snow you'll get stuck.
I've driven in 16 years of South Dakota, Minnesota and Alaska winters, time split 50/50 between front wheel drive and four wheel drive full sized.
Goose applies to the female in particular while gander applies to the male in particular. Young birds before fledging are called goslings. A group of geese on the ground is called a gaggle; when geese fly in formation, they are called a wedge or a skein.
Can we also sue Great Britain, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, the People's Republic of China, and France for arming the "proto-Taliban"?
And France, South Africa, Great Britain, People's Republic of China and the former members of the Soviet Union for arming Iraq under Saddam? You look at the TO&E for Iraq before Desert Storm and after it, there isn't much that was made in the USA there.
As for Iran, gotta go after the French, the Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan administrations for that, oh and the Israelis too.
The United States does not spend all that to insure there won't be any way. The US spends all that and has that giant military established to "provide the military forces needed to deter war and to protect the security of our country."
Cutting the US defense budget by 90% would strip the entire US military down to something just a little bigger than the current US Marine Corps or a little smaller than the French Armed Forces.
China could make Shenzhen happen overnight because China had a centralized command economy with a recent history of forcing people to work to death in great numbers. Africa doesn't have any of that going for it.
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Or there would have been a total breakthrough by the Allies and Germany would have been totally divided by France, Britain and Italy.
The US entry into WWI is part of ending the war, however the US isn't responsable for post war German feeling, the break up of the German overseas empire or the post-war humiliation of Germany.
After living with that Iguana for 16 years, I know he makes choices when he wants to.
Like when told to "stop running across the room!" He will skirt the walls, trying to avoid detection, to get to his goal. Or if he's been locked in his room because humans have been on vacation, he will spend two or three weeks trying to get to my shoes so he can poop in them. Not any shoes, just his owner's shoes.
Observe Ravens in an urban setting, they make rational choices, observe food and objects closely, test for traps, coordinate as a group, it's not just instinct.
"The fox which digs a hole which exposes the worm and the bird which takes the worm don't really have the capacity to make a choice."
If you'd spent anytime observing birds and bird behavior, you'd know that some birds very well have the capacity to make a choice. Humans aren't the only animals on the planet that kill other members of their own species or members of other species just for the sake of killing or territory.
I have an older (16 year old) Green Iguana who understands the concept of glass and doors,* he will go taunt smaller lizards (Central Inland Bearded Dragons, Uromasytxs) who don't understand how glass works. He will get them spun up with head bobs, then leave to go piss off the others, once all the smaller lizards are upset, he will retire to his room to bask.
* - Not all lizard species understand what glass is, even larger ones like Agamid lizards, so they spent hours "glass surfing". Monitors and Iguana often figure out what glass is, and sometimes even mirrors.
3-4x the overall US tax rate is up into the 99-120% rates, I've lived overseas and taxes weren't that high.
US - Income Tax 0–35% (federal) 0–10.55% (states) - note I now live in a 0% state, its really nice.
US - Payroll Tax - 15.3–2.9%
US - Sales Tax - 0-10.25% (states and local) - note I live in a 0% state and city, really nice
US - top bracket in highest tax area would be 60.25%, lowest employed person will be 2.9%
I paid something like 19-20% with Federal, misc taxes and fuel tax in 2010.
US taxation as GDP is 26.9%, Denmark is the most taxed country in the world with a tax-to-GDP ratio of 48.9%
Googling a name someone gives you isn't legal identification in the US or anywhere else in the world.
Farming labor in the US isn't restricted by minimum wage, so farmers in Georgia could hire documented migrant workers and pay them less than minimum wage still, but they won't they are trying to create an issue so there are still illegal workers they can pay even less and threaten them with deportation.
We didn't put Germany into the economic situation it was in following World War I, the United Kingdom, France and Italy did.
In January 1921, the total sum due was decided by an Inter-Allied Reparations Commission and was set at 269 billion gold marks (the equivalent of around 100,000 tonnes of pure gold), about £13 billion or US$64 billion ($785 billion in 2011). The US pushed and pushed to lower the sum, first with the Dawes Plan and then with the Young Plan.
Belgium, the United Kingdom, and certain British Dominions, France, and Japan all took German territories overseas while France, Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, Belgium and Czechoslovakia took German territory in Europe, the United States didn't take German territory, didn't steal German industry, the US rejected Versailles because Congress and the American public thought it was too harsh.
Yes the US "lost" the Vietnam War, we bombed the North into a peace treaty with the US and South Vietnam, Congress stopping providing military aid to North Vietnam, then after the bulk of US forces had left South Vietnam the North invaded and overran the country. So a nation that wasn't defeated in any major battle, who had a peace treaty and didn't have forces there anymore "failed" when South Vietnam was over run.
Mexico isn't a poor country though, it just has a terrible income equality ratio. The poor in Mexico are very poor while the rich are very rich.
Many of the "Mexicans" coming to the US aren't actually from Mexico, but from farther south who are escaping through Mexico to get to the US, oh and the War on Drugs and Narco Gangs isn't helping.
But it's not an invasion, calling it an invasion shows that you don't know what an invasion is.
An invasion is a military offensive consisting of all, or large parts of the armed forces of one geopolitical entity aggressively entering territory controlled by another such entity. Until brigade sized units of the Ejercito Mexicano roll into Arizona, it's not an invasion.
Like invading Pakistan and destroying the ISI?
Until the 2010 model year, it used the LNJ, made in China for the Chinese and Canadian market and the LY7.
Now it uses the LY7 V6, which is a new technology V6, from 2004 on, and the LAF i4, which has been built in various versions since the early 70s for US, Australia, Brazil, Europe and the Middle East.
LNJ is a 60 degree GM V-6, it's been in constant production since 1980, sorry I missed the 4 cylinder, the LAF, its family has only been in production since the early 70s.
But you are right about the LY7, it's newer 2004-on
The LNJ isn't in the Equinox anymore, and when it was it was only Chinese and Canadian.
Ferrari class?
Tesla Roadster - 0 to 60 mph (0 to 97 km/h) in 3.9 seconds, 14-mile (0.40 km) test at 12.6 sec giving 102.6 mph, top speed 125 mph
Ferrari 458 Italia - 0-100 km/h (62 mph) acceleration is under 3.4 seconds, 14-mile (0.40 km) test at 11.5 at 125 mph, top speed 202 mph
A Tesla Roadster isn't even Corvette Z06 class
2010 Chevy Corvette Z06 - 0-60 mph time of 3.6 seconds and 1/4 mile in 11.8 seconds at 122 mph, top speed 192 - for 25,000 less than a Roadster
Equinox is classed as a medium CUV and both engines, 3.4 L LNJ V6 and 3.6 L LY7 V6, are pretty rock solid V6s.
You aren't going through "a couple feet of snow" in a full sized truck either unless you have a snow plow on the front.
As soon as the snow is deep enough to start rubbing against your undercarriage as you go through it, you'll loose momentum and/or get high centered on it.
Even with snow tires and chains, in really deep snow you'll get stuck.
I've driven in 16 years of South Dakota, Minnesota and Alaska winters, time split 50/50 between front wheel drive and four wheel drive full sized.
India has had a problem with Google, Mapquest and everyone else since the Mumbai Terror Attacks in 2008.
Remember that? 164 dead, over 300 wounded and the terrorists used Google Earth to pan the attacks and figure out where to go.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/3691723/Mumbai-attacks-Indian-suit-against-Google-Earth-over-image-use-by-terrorists.html
So maybe India has a reason to have a problem with Google Streetview
This lost funding on Friday 6-17-11
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/20/railgun-laser-weapon-lose-senate-funding-face-uncertain-future/
I've been in Irish bars here in the states that still are pro-Republican bars. Some even still have donation jars for the "fighters".
The IRA also got a lot of arms from the Soviet Bloc, especially from the Czechs and Libya, some money from the KGB, but a lot more money from the US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army_arms_importation
A gander is a male goose.
Goose applies to the female in particular while gander applies to the male in particular. Young birds before fledging are called goslings. A group of geese on the ground is called a gaggle; when geese fly in formation, they are called a wedge or a skein.
Can we also sue Great Britain, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, the People's Republic of China, and France for arming the "proto-Taliban"?
And France, South Africa, Great Britain, People's Republic of China and the former members of the Soviet Union for arming Iraq under Saddam? You look at the TO&E for Iraq before Desert Storm and after it, there isn't much that was made in the USA there.
As for Iran, gotta go after the French, the Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan administrations for that, oh and the Israelis too.
There wasn't peace in Europe three years ago when Georgia and Russia fought. Nor was there peace in Europe during the Madrid or the London bombings.
Nor was there peace in Europe from 1991 to 1999 when the Balkans were at war.
Ingushetia and Chechnya are still at war, both of which are on the European continent.
The United States does not spend all that to insure there won't be any way. The US spends all that and has that giant military established to "provide the military forces needed to deter war and to protect the security of our country."
http://www.defense.gov/about/#mission
Cutting the US defense budget by 90% would strip the entire US military down to something just a little bigger than the current US Marine Corps or a little smaller than the French Armed Forces.
Japan is considered to be 6-12 months from a weaponized thermonuclear warhead if they decided they wanted on.
They also have a Peacekeeper/SS-25 class rocket that could be weaponized quite easily.
http://www.largeassociates.com/R3126-A1-%20final.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_nuclear_weapon_program#De_facto_nuclear_state
Only if all the Californians who have left must return to California within 90 days.
China had things happen Africa hasn't, in case history isn't your thing...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_with_Chinese_characteristics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_economic_reform
Oh yea, roads, rivers and canals like - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canal_(China)
China could make Shenzhen happen overnight because China had a centralized command economy with a recent history of forcing people to work to death in great numbers. Africa doesn't have any of that going for it.