You can't enter the US without being interrogated? I've entered the US dozens of times, pre and post 9/11 and I've never been interrogated.
Here is what it was like the last time I entered the US (September 2009, Port Of Entry-Alcan) - Can I see your ID? Where you going? How did you get into Canada with that Iguana? Oh...have a safe trip.
That was my "interrogation" while entering the US with a truck full of belongings and a 12 foot trailer.
You can however move around the US without handlers. You can stay in whatever motel/hotel you can afford without it being bugged and without government minders watching you.
Because the DPRK is pushing more GDP into the program and there is the threat of prison for the scientists and engineers, families, parents and grandparents.
The danger from the DPRK is the massive amounts of conventional artillery and battlefield rockets they have, not nukes. FROGs and SCUDs can be shot down by Patriots, the US and RoK will hammer them with long range PGMs like MRLS and with airpower.
Seoul would have to be at least nuked before the US would deploy nuclear weapons that close to Russia and China.
Yea, if you took the time to google you'd find that you are wrong. So obviously you don't.
"In this election, the enormously popular Washington essentially ran unopposed." The only real issue to be decided was who would be chosen as vice president. Under the system then in place, each elector cast two votes; if a person received a vote from a majority of the electors, that person became president, and the runner-up became vice president. All 69 electors cast one vote each for Washington. Their other votes were divided among eleven other candidates; John Adams received the most, becoming vice president. The Twelfth Amendment, ratified in 1804, would change this procedure, requiring each elector to cast distinct votes for president and vice president.
You stated that there was no electoral college for the first elections and "the States pick the president of the Union." That is incorrect, there was an electoral college, and while the states elected the electors, that didn't mean the state legislatures voted on the candidate, so no the states never picked the President of the United States.
I call shenanigans. I moved from Washington to Alaska last fall and had hundreds of CD-Rs and DVD-Rs with video, images, software, MP3s and had no troubles. Hell there were dozens of black memorex CD-Rs visible in our cars for he Canadians and US to see.
American Hegemony and imperialism started when the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery told every Indian Tribe they met that they all had a Great Chief to the East and they needed to visit.
Only a few land owning women could vote in pre-Revolution America, as in a handful. Lydia Taft is the most well known, other than her there was no agitation and no movement until 1848.
Abolition of property qualifications for white men was removed from 1812-1860 — see: Jacksonian democracy
Though elected by the United States House of Representatives, John Quincy Adams was the first president ever to be voted for by the common citizenry, as the 1824 United States Presidential election was the first in which all free white male citizens without property could vote (with the exception of 6 states).
There was nothing in the Constitution that allowed other races to vote until 1870 - "Race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (15th Amendment, 1870)
Obama hasn't instituted the killing of people politically opposed to him, nor has there been a mandate to sell off farms Zimbabwe style with a mandatory percentage of the crops going to the urban workers.
Obama maybe left of Bush and a bit left of the Clintons, but he is far from European Labour or the Greens and way right of Soviet Union Communist Party.
/. has never been a news breaker, except for things like CmdrTaco's proposal, Segan's meltdown over bombing Iraq and CmdrTaco's forced WoW name change.
1. Excepting oil, the two richest countries in terms of natural resources are the United States and Russia. The United States infrastructure is also vast and the US has incredible agricultural assets.
2. The US military is the most powerful, most fighter aircraft, most airlift tonnage at once, most bombers, most aircraft carriers, most guided missile destroyers, most cruisers, most special forces units, most ballistic missile submarines, most attack submarines, largest amphibious warfare group
Because of the unified nature of the US military (one giant military, each branch having its own role), the US military is much more efficient than say the combined national forces of the EU.
As for "no war ever solved anything", thats a load. Couple quick ones - wars decided who would rule the central and western United States, war ended slavery in the United States, war ended the systematic execution of European Jews, war ended the Japanese enslavement of Korea, war unified Germany in the 19th century.
As a measure of the GDP of the United States, the US military isn't that "expensive".
They could federalize the state guards and get them to cleaning up. They could start a FEMA organized clean up and put forth a jobs program starting right now to get those people whose industries will be destroyed new jobs.
They do it all the time with terrorists. Someone doesn't blow up a crappy bomb in Times Square and he is in Federal custody in hours, but the CEOs of BP are running around scot-free?
The states of the United States are not comparable to the member states of the EU. No US state has had foreign relations since 1865. No US state has had a standing army since 1865. While US states do have the National Guard, they are units of the US military, paid for and equipped by the US Federal Government but controlled by the states.
The EU is way less structured than the US federal system.
During and after Katrina everyone attacked Bush, often very personal attacks for the Federal and even state responses to that event.
Yet here we are nearly two months after this started and there has been very little vitriolic attacking on the current President.
Why is that I wonder? The Obama administration was in charge of the offices at the Interior that oversaw this and no changes were made. The Justice Department could have been turned on to BP and people could be in jail right now, but nothing was done.
The Bush response to Katrina was hampered by a bad official at FEMA and crappy mayors and Louisiana state officials. Now we are seeing much more widespread failures with the Federal response and coverups by the Federal government yet where is the anger?
Not even half the hate directed at Bush for Katrina is present here for BP.
So...do people just not care about the eastern Gulf of Mexico or are people scared to criticize the Obama administration?
I didn't vote for him in 2008, but if he came out fighting against BP and proactive, I'll vote for him in 2012, but with the response so far, not a chance I'll vote for him and his Carter-esque do nothing response to a crisis.
Chondoist Chongu Party "The party still exists, but has been reduced to a letter-head. It conducts no activities except for those directed by the government and takes no independent positions on any political matters."
Korean Social Democratic Party "The KSDP is subservent to the ruling Worker's Party of Korea. Very little is known of its activities these days, as nothing but the name of the current leader is published"
Workers' Party of Korea "The Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) is the ruling party"
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You can't enter the US without being interrogated? I've entered the US dozens of times, pre and post 9/11 and I've never been interrogated.
Here is what it was like the last time I entered the US (September 2009, Port Of Entry-Alcan) - Can I see your ID? Where you going? How did you get into Canada with that Iguana? Oh...have a safe trip.
That was my "interrogation" while entering the US with a truck full of belongings and a 12 foot trailer.
You can however move around the US without handlers. You can stay in whatever motel/hotel you can afford without it being bugged and without government minders watching you.
http://axisofeviltour.com/nk-main.htm
Had you lived in the DPRK, being that critical of the DPRK would have resulted in the imprisonment of you, your family, your parents and grandparents.
Because the DPRK is pushing more GDP into the program and there is the threat of prison for the scientists and engineers, families, parents and grandparents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aquariums_of_Pyongyang
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yodok_concentration_camp
No one in the RoK will be imprisoned or killed if they fail at the rocket program. Now...how successful has the DPRK ICBM/orbital program been?
Not that successful
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyngsng%2D2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_North_Korean_missile_test
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyngsng-1
Now, the DPRK has SCUD and FROG type missiles that can get a nuke (if their nukes are small and light enough) to the RoK, China and Japan
The first DRPK nuclear test was most likely a failure, far less than 4 KT and the second was also small, a 1-5 KT or so
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE55E5BA20090615
The danger from the DPRK is the massive amounts of conventional artillery and battlefield rockets they have, not nukes. FROGs and SCUDs can be shot down by Patriots, the US and RoK will hammer them with long range PGMs like MRLS and with airpower.
Seoul would have to be at least nuked before the US would deploy nuclear weapons that close to Russia and China.
You don't recall the Red Terror? History fail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin#Red_Terror
You don't want any health insurance? Obama didn't put that in there, the Senate and House of Representatives did, can't hit Obama for that.
Yea, if you took the time to google you'd find that you are wrong. So obviously you don't.
"In this election, the enormously popular Washington essentially ran unopposed." The only real issue to be decided was who would be chosen as vice president. Under the system then in place, each elector cast two votes; if a person received a vote from a majority of the electors, that person became president, and the runner-up became vice president. All 69 electors cast one vote each for Washington. Their other votes were divided among eleven other candidates; John Adams received the most, becoming vice president. The Twelfth Amendment, ratified in 1804, would change this procedure, requiring each elector to cast distinct votes for president and vice president.
http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/scores.html#1789
You stated that there was no electoral college for the first elections and "the States pick the president of the Union." That is incorrect, there was an electoral college, and while the states elected the electors, that didn't mean the state legislatures voted on the candidate, so no the states never picked the President of the United States.
I call shenanigans. I moved from Washington to Alaska last fall and had hundreds of CD-Rs and DVD-Rs with video, images, software, MP3s and had no troubles. Hell there were dozens of black memorex CD-Rs visible in our cars for he Canadians and US to see.
That was McKinley. TR just extended it.
American Hegemony and imperialism started when the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery told every Indian Tribe they met that they all had a Great Chief to the East and they needed to visit.
Umm...no.
Only a few land owning women could vote in pre-Revolution America, as in a handful. Lydia Taft is the most well known, other than her there was no agitation and no movement until 1848.
Abolition of property qualifications for white men was removed from 1812-1860 — see: Jacksonian democracy
Though elected by the United States House of Representatives, John Quincy Adams was the first president ever to be voted for by the common citizenry, as the 1824 United States Presidential election was the first in which all free white male citizens without property could vote (with the exception of 6 states).
There was nothing in the Constitution that allowed other races to vote until 1870 - "Race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (15th Amendment, 1870)
Thats not how it was done.
There was still the electoral college then, 1796 was the first contested election, Washington had run unopposed twice.
Obama is very far from Lenin.
Obama hasn't instituted the killing of people politically opposed to him, nor has there been a mandate to sell off farms Zimbabwe style with a mandatory percentage of the crops going to the urban workers.
Obama maybe left of Bush and a bit left of the Clintons, but he is far from European Labour or the Greens and way right of Soviet Union Communist Party.
Compared to what Lincoln and Wilson did, the Bush Administration was a minor league play.
Hell, or what happened under Jackson.
Indian Removal Act was far more damaging than anything Bush did or dreamed of doing.
I forgot about that. The Thetan-loons were going after a ton of sites back then, I just ignored /. that day.
Looking back, I'd just started a new job and my boss went to the ER that day.
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/01/03/16/1256226.shtml
Sengan going off about Operation Desert Fox was way more memorable for me
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=98/12/16/1930206
Since this was a flaw in AT&T's security, despite Gawker's attempt to make it Apple's fault, why the hell would or should it affect Apple's image?
From a source not being sued by Apple for theft
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/198453/should_you_worry_about_the_ipad_3g_data_leak.html
If the scientology leadership got crazy cancer from untested stem-cell treatments...that'd be a mean thetan to them.
Yahweh in Hebrew
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Judaism
Come'on now, 747s? Thats just crazy...
The 14.4 zillion people killed 4 quadrillion years ago in volcanos that just started existing 100,000 years ago were taken there in DC-8s
/. has never been a news breaker, except for things like CmdrTaco's proposal, Segan's meltdown over bombing Iraq and CmdrTaco's forced WoW name change.
I've been here since it was Chips and Dips
No, the PMITA prisons from Officespace are State prisons. Federal prisons are supposed to be safe.
1. Excepting oil, the two richest countries in terms of natural resources are the United States and Russia. The United States infrastructure is also vast and the US has incredible agricultural assets.
2. The US military is the most powerful, most fighter aircraft, most airlift tonnage at once, most bombers, most aircraft carriers, most guided missile destroyers, most cruisers, most special forces units, most ballistic missile submarines, most attack submarines, largest amphibious warfare group
Because of the unified nature of the US military (one giant military, each branch having its own role), the US military is much more efficient than say the combined national forces of the EU.
As for "no war ever solved anything", thats a load. Couple quick ones - wars decided who would rule the central and western United States, war ended slavery in the United States, war ended the systematic execution of European Jews, war ended the Japanese enslavement of Korea, war unified Germany in the 19th century.
As a measure of the GDP of the United States, the US military isn't that "expensive".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/apr/01/information-is-beautiful-military-spending
They could federalize the state guards and get them to cleaning up. They could start a FEMA organized clean up and put forth a jobs program starting right now to get those people whose industries will be destroyed new jobs.
They do it all the time with terrorists. Someone doesn't blow up a crappy bomb in Times Square and he is in Federal custody in hours, but the CEOs of BP are running around scot-free?
Exactly my point. During Katrina people expected Bush to go fix it personally, I point out the double standard and you do some Bush bashing.
Thanks for making my point.
The states of the United States are not comparable to the member states of the EU. No US state has had foreign relations since 1865. No US state has had a standing army since 1865. While US states do have the National Guard, they are units of the US military, paid for and equipped by the US Federal Government but controlled by the states.
The EU is way less structured than the US federal system.
During and after Katrina everyone attacked Bush, often very personal attacks for the Federal and even state responses to that event.
Yet here we are nearly two months after this started and there has been very little vitriolic attacking on the current President.
Why is that I wonder? The Obama administration was in charge of the offices at the Interior that oversaw this and no changes were made. The Justice Department could have been turned on to BP and people could be in jail right now, but nothing was done.
The Bush response to Katrina was hampered by a bad official at FEMA and crappy mayors and Louisiana state officials. Now we are seeing much more widespread failures with the Federal response and coverups by the Federal government yet where is the anger?
Not even half the hate directed at Bush for Katrina is present here for BP.
So...do people just not care about the eastern Gulf of Mexico or are people scared to criticize the Obama administration?
I didn't vote for him in 2008, but if he came out fighting against BP and proactive, I'll vote for him in 2012, but with the response so far, not a chance I'll vote for him and his Carter-esque do nothing response to a crisis.
Sorry but China is neither the richest nor most powerful nation on Earth.
The US still has the largest economy and most powerful military on the planet.
China has more people armed and in the military but China lacks the ability to project power and has a fraction of the nuclear capability of the US.
Reading about the parties was interesting.
Chondoist Chongu Party
"The party still exists, but has been reduced to a letter-head. It conducts no activities except for those directed by the government and takes no independent positions on any political matters."
Korean Social Democratic Party
"The KSDP is subservent to the ruling Worker's Party of Korea. Very little is known of its activities these days, as nothing but the name of the current leader is published"
Workers' Party of Korea
"The Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) is the ruling party"