Don't be autistic. Most "black" Americans are in fact part/half "white". "x % white" (or whatever color) is idiotic.
Let me muddy it up even more with this: northern Indians are descendants of the original "Aryans". You know, the "pure" white people according to some.
Compupter world became a media world, and now we all talk like jibbering marketing (cheap shot half-intended) idiots. Some subsectors apparently more idiotic than others. Price paid for going "mainstream".
It's not shaking of head (i.e., rotating the head side-to-side on the horizontal plane), but rather tilting of the head side-to-side). I had thought it meant "sorta" or "you know" or similar depending on the context.
Interesting bit of Indian culture. No, I'm not an Indian.
Yep. Competition, ain't it a bitch?!;-) Funny, this is how capitalism is supposed to work, but these weasels screech "communism" waving their anti-competitive patent portfolio.
For the article's defense, though, it seems to suggest "traditional" vendors are hit, not the software/IT industry as a whole, but I didn't RTFA.
head in the sand indeed... reminds me of people who can't even admit they're wrong after they're shown point-blank how wrong they were. It takes real guts, real genius, real intelligence to be able to admit when you're wrong and then move forward from there.
I was wrong, but I'm gonna move forward from here on.
People throw around stuff like "energy used for production" and "carbon footprint". They pretend to factor in externalities (i.e., factors not accounted in monetary costs), but how the heck do they do that? "Carbon footprint" for example. Do you take in the CO2 emitted by the truck that was driven to deliver the good? What about the emission due to the truck's production? What about the emission due to the delivery of the parts used to assemble the truck? And the emission due to production of the parts? Emission due to mining of mineral for the parts? Emission due to exploration for the mines?
Yep, this is flamey, but also curious if there is something of substance behind these measures thrown about rather than them being fad-profiteering BS.
Hmm. It seems to me that people should assess any government on the basis of what it does, not on what people say.
One difference is, though, the US (and the West) is supposed to be democracy, which means the people themselves are in good part responsible for the acts of their gov't, whereas China is supposed to be party dictatorship and hence "the people" are, so the theory goes, less accountable for their gov't actions. That makes us whining about China a good deal more hypocritical than the Chinese - the Chinese gov't definitely do way less preaching than the West do.
If on the other hand, we accept that we are all hypocrites, regardless of the degree, that means we are all scumbags to one degree or other (doesn't matter), why bother whining about anything.
Democracies of any sort are never about anything more than a contingent and provisional freedom. "Freedom" is one of those words, like "democracy", "truth", "morality", and "pizza" that tend to mean whatever you want it to mean at the time.
Dude, you crossed the line. What you got against pizza? She's a SAINT!! (-ly pie, is what I meant).
If Japan had been willing to compete on the economic stage instead of trying to conquer her way to economic independence...
I'll be the last one to defend Japan, but why should Japan refrain from "conquering her way" into power when all the others had been and were still doing it?
The Europeans colonized huge chunks of Africa and Asia and leverage them for economic military gains. The US, while not on the same scale, took on territories and interest in Latin America and Pacific/Asia. Japan, trying to keep up with the West, saw they needed to do the same, around its neighborhood, coming into conflict with the European and American interest in the region. The way things were developing, the US-Japan blowup was going to happen regardless of Nanking massacre/China, and your complaint about lack of Chinese gratitude on this point seems rather overblown to me.
And you don't think the Japanese atrocities in China had anything at all to do with our decision to "check" Japan as you put it?
Well, I'm sure there were many secondary considerations for engaging Japan, but "helping Chinese" seems relatively marginal. Rememeber, at the time we were banning immigrations from China, and the Chinese weren't particularly popular in the US. Your argument that we went to war against Japan because of China is like saying we went to war with Afghanistan (Taliban) because Taliban oppressed women, not because of 9/11 al Queda.
So... you're saying the US went to war with Japan to check Japan, not to help China. Open your mouth and pour some more coffee before opening your mouth again.:-)
If you mean the Nationalists/Kuomintang fled to Taiwan then you are accurate. But they weren't the only 'leadership' of China during WW2. The Communists contributed more to the defeat of the Japanese than the Nationalists did. The Communist leadership was also engaged by the Western Powers during this period -- Stillwell in particular spoke highly about the Communists and their resistance towards the Japanese. So it's a bit of a mistake to say the 'leadership' of China during WW2 fled to Taiwan -- part of the leadership did. The part that actually resisted the Japanese stayed behind.
But just about all the US aid to China went to KMT, not the communist. Communists was more tolerated than helped by the US at the time. And after the war, guess which side the US backed when KMT and communist went after each other? Hence the fallout between the US and China.
Btw, I think Stillwell (or was it his predecessor), while sent to help KMT, was reported to be disgusted with KMT and suggested to help the communists instead, to no avail.
You mean like the racist western conspiracy that instigated a war with a formerly allied country mainly because of that countries despicable actions in China? And how did the West get repaid for taking that stance and helping to liberate China? With the Chinese intervention against the United Nations (not just the United States) during the Korean War. Nice going -- we help to stop Japanese aggression and get repaid by China flipping off the entire World to support an aggressive regime that tried to conquer it's Southern neighbor.
During WW II, the US supported KMT, against the communist party which was more competent and had more legitimacy in China. We lost China, like Vietnam, because we backed the wrong (i.e. more incompetent and more corrupt) horse for ideological reason. The communist took over China after WW II, and hence the US and China fell out.
The US engaged Japan in the war because she was attacked and she was contesting with Japan for influence in Asia, not because she wanted to "help out" China. The main reason China intervened in the Korean war was to prevent posting of US base on its border.
If they want to make this into a nationalist cause celebre then somebody should remind them that there's a lot more history behind Chinese relations with the West then just the unequal treaties and not all of that history is the West "oppressing" China.
Tru dat. But 19th century and early 20th century Chinese history was all lop-sided "Qing China nibbled away by the West and Japan".
Once you agree that a moral person has some responsibility to help a person in need you've agreed that society has a burden based on everyones actions. The only question is where you draw the line.
Seems we draw the line at the point of nuisance. If you go off and die quietly where I don't have to see you, nothing need to be done. If, on the other hand, you make a scene in front of my house/in my neighborhood/town, we expel you to hospital, county border, wherever - doesn't matter as long as it's out of sight.
This reminds me. A few weeks back, local TV news crew busted a big local hospital (UCLA? USC? County? not sure) sereptitiously dumping homeless patients who can't pay at the curb outside homeless shelter.
Economic system resides within political system. Political system breaks, so does economics. I wish Adam Smith was around to tell us how we are fucking up and corrupting his ideas.
This has to be one of the most misleading article/summary. Can someone break it down to what it actually is? A plastic molding machine? What do they mean by "self-replicating"?
I'd bet Feynman would think you're a pompous ass also if he saw your comments. Imagine him saying it in thick Brooklyn Jewish accent.;-) You gotta chill, man.
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Don't be autistic. Most "black" Americans are in fact part/half "white". "x % white" (or whatever color) is idiotic. Let me muddy it up even more with this: northern Indians are descendants of the original "Aryans". You know, the "pure" white people according to some.
That dude posted from "the other side". Which one? Hint: his ISP is Comcast.
Compupter world became a media world, and now we all talk like jibbering marketing (cheap shot half-intended) idiots. Some subsectors apparently more idiotic than others. Price paid for going "mainstream".
It's not shaking of head (i.e., rotating the head side-to-side on the horizontal plane), but rather tilting of the head side-to-side). I had thought it meant "sorta" or "you know" or similar depending on the context. Interesting bit of Indian culture. No, I'm not an Indian.
They ripped off Debian!!!
Yep. Competition, ain't it a bitch?! ;-) Funny, this is how capitalism is supposed to work, but these weasels screech "communism" waving their anti-competitive patent portfolio.
For the article's defense, though, it seems to suggest "traditional" vendors are hit, not the software/IT industry as a whole, but I didn't RTFA.
I was wrong, but I'm gonna move forward from here on.
Damn, I feel smarter already.
People throw around stuff like "energy used for production" and "carbon footprint". They pretend to factor in externalities (i.e., factors not accounted in monetary costs), but how the heck do they do that? "Carbon footprint" for example. Do you take in the CO2 emitted by the truck that was driven to deliver the good? What about the emission due to the truck's production? What about the emission due to the delivery of the parts used to assemble the truck? And the emission due to production of the parts? Emission due to mining of mineral for the parts? Emission due to exploration for the mines?
Yep, this is flamey, but also curious if there is something of substance behind these measures thrown about rather than them being fad-profiteering BS.
One difference is, though, the US (and the West) is supposed to be democracy, which means the people themselves are in good part responsible for the acts of their gov't, whereas China is supposed to be party dictatorship and hence "the people" are, so the theory goes, less accountable for their gov't actions. That makes us whining about China a good deal more hypocritical than the Chinese - the Chinese gov't definitely do way less preaching than the West do.
If on the other hand, we accept that we are all hypocrites, regardless of the degree, that means we are all scumbags to one degree or other (doesn't matter), why bother whining about anything.
The moral of the story is: It's wrong to be French - Al Bundy.
Dude, you crossed the line. What you got against pizza? She's a SAINT!! (-ly pie, is what I meant).
Yeah, and I've heard their monopoly ISP (Com-something, I think) fucks with BitTorrent, too. Buncha jerks, you know.
To our Mexican brothers and sisters:
TEXANS ARE COMING!! AND THEY'RE SHOUTING "ALAH"!! (or something like that)
I'll be the last one to defend Japan, but why should Japan refrain from "conquering her way" into power when all the others had been and were still doing it?
The Europeans colonized huge chunks of Africa and Asia and leverage them for economic military gains. The US, while not on the same scale, took on territories and interest in Latin America and Pacific/Asia. Japan, trying to keep up with the West, saw they needed to do the same, around its neighborhood, coming into conflict with the European and American interest in the region. The way things were developing, the US-Japan blowup was going to happen regardless of Nanking massacre/China, and your complaint about lack of Chinese gratitude on this point seems rather overblown to me.
So... you're saying the US went to war with Japan to check Japan, not to help China. Open your mouth and pour some more coffee before opening your mouth again. :-)
But just about all the US aid to China went to KMT, not the communist. Communists was more tolerated than helped by the US at the time. And after the war, guess which side the US backed when KMT and communist went after each other? Hence the fallout between the US and China.
Btw, I think Stillwell (or was it his predecessor), while sent to help KMT, was reported to be disgusted with KMT and suggested to help the communists instead, to no avail.
During WW II, the US supported KMT, against the communist party which was more competent and had more legitimacy in China. We lost China, like Vietnam, because we backed the wrong (i.e. more incompetent and more corrupt) horse for ideological reason. The communist took over China after WW II, and hence the US and China fell out.
The US engaged Japan in the war because she was attacked and she was contesting with Japan for influence in Asia, not because she wanted to "help out" China. The main reason China intervened in the Korean war was to prevent posting of US base on its border.
Tru dat. But 19th century and early 20th century Chinese history was all lop-sided "Qing China nibbled away by the West and Japan".Seems we draw the line at the point of nuisance. If you go off and die quietly where I don't have to see you, nothing need to be done. If, on the other hand, you make a scene in front of my house/in my neighborhood/town, we expel you to hospital, county border, wherever - doesn't matter as long as it's out of sight.
This reminds me. A few weeks back, local TV news crew busted a big local hospital (UCLA? USC? County? not sure) sereptitiously dumping homeless patients who can't pay at the curb outside homeless shelter.
Economic system resides within political system. Political system breaks, so does economics. I wish Adam Smith was around to tell us how we are fucking up and corrupting his ideas.
Cancel that card and use another.
This has to be one of the most misleading article/summary. Can someone break it down to what it actually is? A plastic molding machine? What do they mean by "self-replicating"?
How about Calculon?
I'd bet Feynman would think you're a pompous ass also if he saw your comments. Imagine him saying it in thick Brooklyn Jewish accent. ;-) You gotta chill, man.