The United States, France and the United Kingdom basing aircraft in Saudi Arabia, some of the aircraft were even at Medina's airport, to bombard a former client of the United States, France and the Soviet Union is very postmodern.
"Fight against terrorism" is under military issues, terrorism is the concern about terrorism, domestic (OKC bombing, Olympic Park, Virginia Sniper, abortion clinics) and foreign (9-11, Shoe Bomber, etc) as well as things like TSA overreaction to terrorism.
WTC in '93, Africa Embassy Bombings, USS Cole, WTC and Pentagon attacks were not in response to invading another country, but in response to the US and Saudi governments having the nerve to have US military assets in Saudi Arabia. So a post-modern response by people with a 7th century tribal mindset to a post-modern alliance.
In the time it took him to write the article about how a Mac doesn't work for him (not all web developers, just him), he could have gotten BootCamp and whatever other OS he wants to use to work, or set up a virtual machine.
Instead of fixing the issue, or admitting he doesn't know what the fark he is doing on a Mac, he bitched about the machine and OS being the problem.
I didn't say that was my view on the US public in regards to US foreign policy, but those are the things American citizens and voters typically care about.
For 2010 the big topics for voters are - the economy, jobs, terrorism, social security, education, medicare, the deficit. Social Security, Economy, Education, Medicare, the Deficit all tie into the tax rate/economy really.
But are you glad the US kept Germany from occupying Iceland in the early 1940s?
As an American, I can tell you the reason why people don't give a crap about the US Government actions is because we really don't care what the US is doing to foreign nationals or foreign countries.
We care about the tax rate, the price of gasoline, the price of food and the employment rate.
Until 1875 people came to the United States and were allowed the vote straight off the boat, the Page Act of 1875 started to limit people based on race, but unfettered immigration mostly continued without limit.
In 1848 the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo extended U.S. citizenship to approximately 60,000 Mexican residents of the New Mexico Territory and 4,000 living in California. An additional 2500 odd California residents also become U.S. citizens.
No 3 to 5 year process, it was just done with the stroke of a pen.
My family history is American Indian (who weren't citizens until 1924 - another stroke of the pen), Polish Jew (they showed up in 1895), English (pre American Revolution family in Virginia) and Danish Jew (they showed up between 1896 and '98). None of them had to apply and go through all the legal nonsense we have today.
I want more people in the United States, I want people to be able to come here and get citizenship quickly so they can work legally and pay into the system.
Citizenship process shouldn't take more than 12 months and the only limit to it should be an arbitrary number, like 1,000,000 people a year.
The person I replied to said "That's practically the budget of a country." My reply of GDP was to show it's much much more than the budget of a country, but more than all the gross product of all the nations on Earth for a year.
Why did there have to be a single point of origin?
Archaea are very different from other extant organisms, why couldn't some extremophiles have evolved down at the vents or in the crust while others did up near the surface?
How is China monitoring all the calls, or is it just numbers on a black list?
I couldn't imagine that the US intelligence apparatus with all it's funding, hardware and employees could manage a program like this in the US, how does China do it?
China's Most Favored Trading Partner or as it's known now Permanent normal trade relations was in effect from the mid 1800s until 1951, renewed in 1980, dropped in 1989 and renewed in 2000. It wasn't an "award" its simply a status to allow bilateral trade.
Only two countries don't have NTR with the United States, the DPRK and Cuba.
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The United States, France and the United Kingdom basing aircraft in Saudi Arabia, some of the aircraft were even at Medina's airport, to bombard a former client of the United States, France and the Soviet Union is very postmodern.
Cool, I have a 10.10 disk sitting on my desk as the emergency boot and recover data disk, I might have to install it.
"Fight against terrorism" is under military issues, terrorism is the concern about terrorism, domestic (OKC bombing, Olympic Park, Virginia Sniper, abortion clinics) and foreign (9-11, Shoe Bomber, etc) as well as things like TSA overreaction to terrorism.
WTC in '93, Africa Embassy Bombings, USS Cole, WTC and Pentagon attacks were not in response to invading another country, but in response to the US and Saudi governments having the nerve to have US military assets in Saudi Arabia. So a post-modern response by people with a 7th century tribal mindset to a post-modern alliance.
Sometimes Ubuntu doesn't like working with the Wifi card in a Mac, at least they didn't when I looked in November, is that fixed yet?
In the time it took him to write the article about how a Mac doesn't work for him (not all web developers, just him), he could have gotten BootCamp and whatever other OS he wants to use to work, or set up a virtual machine.
Instead of fixing the issue, or admitting he doesn't know what the fark he is doing on a Mac, he bitched about the machine and OS being the problem.
Terrorism as something Americans think about isn't about gas/oil prices or foreign relations. We have a recent history of domestic terrorists too.
Look at Abortion Rights/Pro Life movement, the Black Panthers, SLA or OKC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing
Just this month here in Alaska there was a plot to kill a Judge, an IRS agent and Alaska state police over unpaid taxes and minor arrests.
I didn't say that was my view on the US public in regards to US foreign policy, but those are the things American citizens and voters typically care about.
For 2010 the big topics for voters are - the economy, jobs, terrorism, social security, education, medicare, the deficit. Social Security, Economy, Education, Medicare, the Deficit all tie into the tax rate/economy really.
http://www.good.is/post/interactive-infographic-what-issues-do-american-voters-care-about/
But are you glad the US kept Germany from occupying Iceland in the early 1940s?
As an American, I can tell you the reason why people don't give a crap about the US Government actions is because we really don't care what the US is doing to foreign nationals or foreign countries.
We care about the tax rate, the price of gasoline, the price of food and the employment rate.
People and animals do live in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Zone though.
Thousands of people, many of them elderly, refused to leave 25 years ago, now about 4-500 live there.
Animal life is exploding there as well, with very little animal mutations seen so far.
The Tea Party has 17 members in the House (out of 241 Republicans) and 10 members in the Senate (out of 47 Republicans) so they don't "run" Congress.
The United States isn't over populated and people still want to have kids.
No, because suburbs expand until a natural boundary or legal boundary is reached.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_sprawl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_growth_boundary#United_States
What about Angels and Jinn?
Islam views ghosts and ghost sightings as pre-Islamic superstition
It is a "corrupt belief to think we will become ghosts after death. After death what will happen, will be exactly what is told by Qur'an and Ahadith."
http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/showthread.php?26432-Muslim-view-on-ghosts
However they believe in Jinn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinn
I had all the zeros typed out at one point, thought "well thats stupid" and you are totally correct.
Yes, long and short billion and trillion are really farking stupid to still have.
Until 1875 people came to the United States and were allowed the vote straight off the boat, the Page Act of 1875 started to limit people based on race, but unfettered immigration mostly continued without limit.
In 1848 the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo extended U.S. citizenship to approximately 60,000 Mexican residents of the New Mexico Territory and 4,000 living in California. An additional 2500 odd California residents also become U.S. citizens.
No 3 to 5 year process, it was just done with the stroke of a pen.
My family history is American Indian (who weren't citizens until 1924 - another stroke of the pen), Polish Jew (they showed up in 1895), English (pre American Revolution family in Virginia) and Danish Jew (they showed up between 1896 and '98). None of them had to apply and go through all the legal nonsense we have today.
12 months should be the goal the US strives for.
Why is amnesty for illegals a bad thing?
I want more people in the United States, I want people to be able to come here and get citizenship quickly so they can work legally and pay into the system.
Citizenship process shouldn't take more than 12 months and the only limit to it should be an arbitrary number, like 1,000,000 people a year.
The person I replied to said "That's practically the budget of a country." My reply of GDP was to show it's much much more than the budget of a country, but more than all the gross product of all the nations on Earth for a year.
75 trillion dollars is more than the GDP of the planet in 2010.
62 trillion dollars was the total global GDP in 2010 according to the IMF
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
Since homosexuality is exhibited in other mammals and birds, it's clear that God didn't make anyone to be "one way and one way only".
Why did there have to be a single point of origin?
Archaea are very different from other extant organisms, why couldn't some extremophiles have evolved down at the vents or in the crust while others did up near the surface?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaea
How is China monitoring all the calls, or is it just numbers on a black list?
I couldn't imagine that the US intelligence apparatus with all it's funding, hardware and employees could manage a program like this in the US, how does China do it?
US and Iran are at about 600-700 million dollars a year in trade now
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_–_United_States_relations#Economic_relations
No, its not 90% from China.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_partners_of_the_United_States
Less than 25% of US imports from from China, and China is the third largest importer of US goods.
China's Most Favored Trading Partner or as it's known now Permanent normal trade relations was in effect from the mid 1800s until 1951, renewed in 1980, dropped in 1989 and renewed in 2000. It wasn't an "award" its simply a status to allow bilateral trade.
Only two countries don't have NTR with the United States, the DPRK and Cuba.