Portland Oregon is very white. Atlanta isn't, there was that change. Speech is different, I grew up speaking North Central American English so Pacific Northwest English is similar, but Southern sounds alot different.
Dress, bustle of the city, the heat, it was very alien.
A few years later I lived in western Florida (Niceville/Fort Walton Beach) and its a different sort of rural folk living around there than say outside Eugene Oregon's rural redneck.
Heck, from South Dakota to Oregon was different, rural folk in Oregon and Washington really don't get out much, I mean I worked with people in Newberg OR (30 miles from Portland) who'd been to the city once or twice in their lives. People on the Reservation in South Dakota have all been to Rapid City (150 miles) and most have been to Denver, Albuquerque, Omaha and/or Kansas City.
Because not all of mankind lives in a global society. The rich and mobile do, but the majority of humans don't have that luxury.
Nations still exist because the majority of the peoples that live in nations want their nations to continue, they don't want to live in a global society. That is true even in the rich and mobile nations.
Who in the EU wants social laws and punishments to be leveled from EU norms to strike a balance with Saudi Arabia, Iran or the People's Republic of China?
Hell, ask Canadians in British Columbia what they think about joining Washington and/or Oregon and they are scared to death of it.
Thats funny, while I've lived in the Great Plains, the Pacific Northwest, western Florida and now Alaska, I never pretend that I know what other parts of the US are like. The US is very different as you go from place to place, there is no "American culture" despite what MTV and Hollywood would have you think.
The government is mostly the same, the banks and restaurants are generally the same and there is a common language(s), but thats about it. Some parts are white, some red, some black.
Getting on a plane in Portland OR and getting off it in Atlanta and going downtown felt more different than when I went from Tel Aviv to Munich.
John Keegan said in Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America, that as a European coming to the US, he felt the great unifiers were restaurant chains and brands. Applebees, Dennys, McDonalds, Coca-Cola, Taco Bells everywhere gives Americans a sense they are in the same country. At least as much as the flag does
Theres a neat documentary that's been on InHD/Mojo and HDNet about South Africa's use of animals at military bases to keep critters from causing problems. I think its about AFB Hoedspruit
Actually, the steps to dictatorship in modern history come really fast. Look at post World War One Italian or German history, or the rise of the Soviet Union, post war German Democratic Republic, Khmer Rouge. It doesn't happen slowly in little steps, it always happens fast, with a revolution or popular political swing.
Hell, even the rise of Augustus or Sulla in the Western Roman Empire happened very quickly and because of public support for emergency leadership.
Well, theres no Stasi agent sitting in the attic of where I live listening to me, so we've not become our former adversaries.
Theres no GULAG chain across Alaska either.
According to the Soviet Criminal Code, agitation or propaganda carried on for the purpose of weakening Soviet authority, or circulating materials or literature that defamed the Soviet State and social system were punishable by imprisonment for a term of 2–5 years; for a second offense, punishable for a term of 3–10 years.
If that was happening now in the US, then David Letterman would be in court right now for claiming President Obama is going to be a one-term President.
The passport system in the Soviet Union restricted migration of citizens within the country through the residential permit/registration system and the use of internal passports.
That doesn't exist here, I was able to move from Washington to Alaska without any permits what so ever. Just car insurance, proof of cat vaccination and valid Passport to get back into the US. Not even a search.
OMON are the special forces for Russian Militia, so like of like a Green Beret or Marine Recon in the National Guard/Reserves.
So a step up from riot police and SWAT and they conduct military operations in Nagorno-Karabakh, Chechnya and Georgia. They tend to do alot of killing when they are in action.
They did alot of riot and SWAT in the 80s and 90s, but have gone more anti-terror, security and military in the last 15 years.
SOBR/OMSN, Vityaz and now 604th Red Banner Center of Special Purpose of the MVD of Russia do more of the high intensity SWAT stuff now it sounds like
Excepting private property and Federal Military Reservations, you can pretty much hike wherever you want in the US, like on the bulk of the National Forest, National Wildlife, National Park, State Park, BLM lands.
The Federal Government owns nearly 650 million acres of land - almost 30 percent of the land area of the United States.
Its Russia. You can't just hike across it to wherever you want.
It'd like a radio transmitter in northern Canada or Alaska, there aren't roads, not many airfields, its going to be out of helicopter range, the weather sucks and for added difficultly, there is an integrated air defense network.
Yes, the NSA spies on the Internet and phone calls, the difference between the US (and EU for that matter, don't be so naive to think they don't monitor communications too - the UK does it, France got pissy because they weren't invited into UK–USA Security Agreement) and Iran is simple.
During a protest if I text a friend "we are going to protest Obama/Bush/Clinton/Gore/Bob", the NSA won't do a damned thing. If I am in Iran and text a friend "we are going to protest Ali Khamenei", VEVAK will send gunmen or police down to arrest me or shoot me.
That is why the US federal government, for all its faults and flaws, is better than Iran's government.
I was joking because I expected someone to pop up with America is way worse than the DPRK.
Now, I'm no teabagger, heck in local elections I vote against measures the teabaggers support and made sure to figure out which local Republicans were teabaggers and which were "RINOs" so I'd not make a mistake and vote for them.
Places with forced labor for the entire family of an accused, places with 5-25% yearly mortality rates aren't jails.
So they are what, People's Happy Time Vacation Work Experience?
Kwan-li-so No.22 Haengyong has 50,000 prisoners, name one prison in the US that holds that many people.
The biggest jail complex in the US is the LA County jail system, 20,000 people. Rikers Island holds 12-14,000, both LA county and Rikers are short term housing.
How many people are in US jails right now? - 2.3 million in prison or jail What country in the world has the biggest surveillance program know to man? - US internationally, DPRK for domestic monitoring What country has been found spying on its own people? - US, UK, Australia, France, China, Taiwan, DPRK, Israel, list goes on In percents, what country has the largest amount of people in jail? - USA In what country has torture been declared perfectly legal? - China, Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Philippines, the list goes on What countries has been involved in torture in conjunction with electronic surveillance? - See above What country has sentenced people to death based on eavesdropping? - Not the US if that's what you are fishing for.
Also ask yourself these questions:
Are americans much more probable to commit crimes than any other people, in the whole world? - Nope Is it possible some people currently in US jails are innocent? - Yep Is it totally impossible a part of these are in essence political prisoners? - Sure they could in "essence" be, but they didn't get there just for voting the wrong way or protesting on a street corner. Just like a Nazi in an American POW camp in 1944 is in essence a political prisoner.
I saw many street corners this morning and there were no police harassing anyone.
In fact I didn't see any police on my drive to work, I did see a police car, but the officer was not in the vehicle.
There are no Guardian Councils in the United States, there is no Basij militia running around killing people who protest.
What religious group controls part of the US Federal Government?
The US isn't fighting the Park51 building, many people are against it, but the US government, the New York State government and the New York City government have done nothing to block it.
As for not being one of the persecuted groups in the US, my father is Prairie Band Potawatomi and my mother is German Jew, explain how that mix isn't a "persecuted group".
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Portland Oregon is very white. Atlanta isn't, there was that change. Speech is different, I grew up speaking North Central American English so Pacific Northwest English is similar, but Southern sounds alot different.
Dress, bustle of the city, the heat, it was very alien.
A few years later I lived in western Florida (Niceville/Fort Walton Beach) and its a different sort of rural folk living around there than say outside Eugene Oregon's rural redneck.
Heck, from South Dakota to Oregon was different, rural folk in Oregon and Washington really don't get out much, I mean I worked with people in Newberg OR (30 miles from Portland) who'd been to the city once or twice in their lives. People on the Reservation in South Dakota have all been to Rapid City (150 miles) and most have been to Denver, Albuquerque, Omaha and/or Kansas City.
Because not all of mankind lives in a global society. The rich and mobile do, but the majority of humans don't have that luxury.
Nations still exist because the majority of the peoples that live in nations want their nations to continue, they don't want to live in a global society. That is true even in the rich and mobile nations.
Who in the EU wants social laws and punishments to be leveled from EU norms to strike a balance with Saudi Arabia, Iran or the People's Republic of China?
Hell, ask Canadians in British Columbia what they think about joining Washington and/or Oregon and they are scared to death of it.
Thats funny, while I've lived in the Great Plains, the Pacific Northwest, western Florida and now Alaska, I never pretend that I know what other parts of the US are like. The US is very different as you go from place to place, there is no "American culture" despite what MTV and Hollywood would have you think.
The government is mostly the same, the banks and restaurants are generally the same and there is a common language(s), but thats about it. Some parts are white, some red, some black.
Getting on a plane in Portland OR and getting off it in Atlanta and going downtown felt more different than when I went from Tel Aviv to Munich.
John Keegan said in Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America, that as a European coming to the US, he felt the great unifiers were restaurant chains and brands. Applebees, Dennys, McDonalds, Coca-Cola, Taco Bells everywhere gives Americans a sense they are in the same country. At least as much as the flag does
Theres a neat documentary that's been on InHD/Mojo and HDNet about South Africa's use of animals at military bases to keep critters from causing problems. I think its about AFB Hoedspruit
USAF's name is the Fighting Falcon, but everyone that works with them calls them Vipers, yea from Battlestar Galactica in the late '70s.
http://viperpatches.jetmax.us/Swirl_USAF_01.htm
http://www.f-16.net/articles_article10.html?module=pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=2&pid=27
Even the yearly exercise where USAF F-16s go to Romania and train with the newly rebuilt MiG-21s is called Viper Lance.
F-16=Viper
MiG-21 LanceR=Lance
The old owner most likely took his hardware with him. So the poster will need some C-band gear
http://skyvision.com/store/dtv.html
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Actually, the steps to dictatorship in modern history come really fast. Look at post World War One Italian or German history, or the rise of the Soviet Union, post war German Democratic Republic, Khmer Rouge. It doesn't happen slowly in little steps, it always happens fast, with a revolution or popular political swing.
Hell, even the rise of Augustus or Sulla in the Western Roman Empire happened very quickly and because of public support for emergency leadership.
No I've not.
So where are the GULAG for political prisoners in Arizona?
http://maps.google.com/
Point them out.
Where is the law making agitation or propaganda or circulating materials or literature that defamed the state and social system a crime in Arizona?
Where is Arizona's internal passport system?
google.com or bing.com, I want some links.
Kagan is made of authoritarianism. Scalia, Thomas and Alito are the ones you want on this kind of a case.
Well, theres no Stasi agent sitting in the attic of where I live listening to me, so we've not become our former adversaries.
Theres no GULAG chain across Alaska either.
According to the Soviet Criminal Code, agitation or propaganda carried on for the purpose of weakening Soviet authority, or circulating materials or literature that defamed the Soviet State and social system were punishable by imprisonment for a term of 2–5 years; for a second offense, punishable for a term of 3–10 years.
If that was happening now in the US, then David Letterman would be in court right now for claiming President Obama is going to be a one-term President.
The passport system in the Soviet Union restricted migration of citizens within the country through the residential permit/registration system and the use of internal passports.
That doesn't exist here, I was able to move from Washington to Alaska without any permits what so ever. Just car insurance, proof of cat vaccination and valid Passport to get back into the US. Not even a search.
OMON are the special forces for Russian Militia, so like of like a Green Beret or Marine Recon in the National Guard/Reserves.
So a step up from riot police and SWAT and they conduct military operations in Nagorno-Karabakh, Chechnya and Georgia. They tend to do alot of killing when they are in action.
They did alot of riot and SWAT in the 80s and 90s, but have gone more anti-terror, security and military in the last 15 years.
SOBR/OMSN, Vityaz and now 604th Red Banner Center of Special Purpose of the MVD of Russia do more of the high intensity SWAT stuff now it sounds like
That made me laugh.
Yea, I'd like to watch the You Tube of how that worked out.
Guy walks up to some OMON guys, points to patch and explains how it's HOMO backwards.
Its not a nation or a country so not in the scope of what sznupi asked now is it?
Greenland might be wide open though.
OMON troops on bears.
Thats some 21st century bear cavalry right there.
Excepting private property and Federal Military Reservations, you can pretty much hike wherever you want in the US, like on the bulk of the National Forest, National Wildlife, National Park, State Park, BLM lands.
The Federal Government owns nearly 650 million acres of land - almost 30 percent of the land area of the United States.
http://www.nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/pdf/fedlands/fedlands3.pdf
But I doubt there is any nation on the planet where someone can roam over all 100% of it
If it's 40 miles from Moscow its inside the Moscow Military District so it's undoubtably secure and monitored.
So instead of weather, bears and wolves theres just going to be the Moscow detachments of Alpha Group, Vympel or more likely OMON.
Its Russia. You can't just hike across it to wherever you want.
It'd like a radio transmitter in northern Canada or Alaska, there aren't roads, not many airfields, its going to be out of helicopter range, the weather sucks and for added difficultly, there is an integrated air defense network.
And bears. And wolves, alot of wolves and bears.
Depends on the resource. Sure maybe half the rock oil is gone, but not half the copper, gold, iron, lead, methane, carbon, uranium, etc.
So how exactly has the planet lost half it's resources?
Yes, the NSA spies on the Internet and phone calls, the difference between the US (and EU for that matter, don't be so naive to think they don't monitor communications too - the UK does it, France got pissy because they weren't invited into UK–USA Security Agreement) and Iran is simple.
During a protest if I text a friend "we are going to protest Obama/Bush/Clinton/Gore/Bob", the NSA won't do a damned thing. If I am in Iran and text a friend "we are going to protest Ali Khamenei", VEVAK will send gunmen or police down to arrest me or shoot me.
That is why the US federal government, for all its faults and flaws, is better than Iran's government.
I was joking because I expected someone to pop up with America is way worse than the DPRK.
Now, I'm no teabagger, heck in local elections I vote against measures the teabaggers support and made sure to figure out which local Republicans were teabaggers and which were "RINOs" so I'd not make a mistake and vote for them.
So GULAG weren't jails either right?
Places with forced labor for the entire family of an accused, places with 5-25% yearly mortality rates aren't jails.
So they are what, People's Happy Time Vacation Work Experience?
Kwan-li-so No.22 Haengyong has 50,000 prisoners, name one prison in the US that holds that many people.
The biggest jail complex in the US is the LA County jail system, 20,000 people. Rikers Island holds 12-14,000, both LA county and Rikers are short term housing.
No,US states jails men and women for statutory rape and child abuse.
In almost every state if a man and woman really want to get married and one is young they can get parental permission.
Age of consent laws are established by the state, not the US Federal Government.
You are talking about pre-Revolution Iran, when the US backed them, not post-Revolution Iran, aka Iran for the last 31 years.
How many people are in US jails right now? - 2.3 million in prison or jail
What country in the world has the biggest surveillance program know to man? - US internationally, DPRK for domestic monitoring
What country has been found spying on its own people? - US, UK, Australia, France, China, Taiwan, DPRK, Israel, list goes on
In percents, what country has the largest amount of people in jail? - USA
In what country has torture been declared perfectly legal? - China, Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Philippines, the list goes on
What countries has been involved in torture in conjunction with electronic surveillance? - See above
What country has sentenced people to death based on eavesdropping? - Not the US if that's what you are fishing for.
Also ask yourself these questions:
Are americans much more probable to commit crimes than any other people, in the whole world? - Nope
Is it possible some people currently in US jails are innocent? - Yep
Is it totally impossible a part of these are in essence political prisoners? - Sure they could in "essence" be, but they didn't get there just for voting the wrong way or protesting on a street corner. Just like a Nazi in an American POW camp in 1944 is in essence a political prisoner.
I saw many street corners this morning and there were no police harassing anyone.
In fact I didn't see any police on my drive to work, I did see a police car, but the officer was not in the vehicle.
There are no Guardian Councils in the United States, there is no Basij militia running around killing people who protest.
What religious group controls part of the US Federal Government?
The US isn't fighting the Park51 building, many people are against it, but the US government, the New York State government and the New York City government have done nothing to block it.
As for not being one of the persecuted groups in the US, my father is Prairie Band Potawatomi and my mother is German Jew, explain how that mix isn't a "persecuted group".