Having not eaten pizza in New York, Chicago or Italy, my basis for comparison is Pizza Hutt and Dominoes in New Zealand.
Both of these outlets allow me to specify the type of base (all of the ones you mentioned are available + some dinky cheese-in-crust things etc) and the toppings and the shape of the pizza. I would call all of the things you mentioned 'pizza', just different types of pizza.
Just like how there's chicken or beef or open top burgers or whatever but they're all burgers and they're all hot sandwiches. Americans didn't invent pizza, Italians moved to America and brought their food with them and modified it.
You could call it 'Chicago' or 'New York' style pizza but its still an Italian dish.:)
Well yeah, except that a burger really is just a hot beef/lettuce/tomato sandwich and a burrito is quite different to a sausage roll or a pita sandwich, in ingredients and presentation.
Wasn't this the town that the whole building concent process was so corrupted in that almost none of the houses were earthquake proofed, and many had fake earthquake provisions to fool inspectors? Sounds like the city just wants to move the blame.
'Proof of my existance is the existance of everything' Surely you recognise that as the most circular of arguments? An infallible God would not write this.
'Lack of qualified people' sounds like when they say 'skill shortage' in New Zealand. What it really means is that there is a lack of people who will work for low wages.
Why do you have to fall back on faith? Why can't you just accept that you don't understand it, and try to look for evidence that supports a hypothesis?
Oh, because you DON'T GET IT AT ALL!!? FUCK!! You make me angry.:(
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Most of the time when a fighter pilot finishes his work, nobody died, because most of his work is spent training in simulators, or sitting around doing mental arithmatic. Not much actual shooting down planes, especially in these days of assymetric warfare.
Don't you kids have IRC and instant messaging shit anymore? There are beautiful girls on the internet, by sheer virtue of the number of people on the internet. Sitting around on the internet all day talking on IRC is highly conducive to inviting everyone to your house to sit around and get drunk, and there were always girls wanting to be part of that when it was happening to me (about 10 years ago - when there were far less of them around than now).
Homosexuality and paedophilia are things that people do to people, not things that figurative representations of people do to figurative representations of other people. At best you can call it role playing.
Doesn't help when much of the material created in the last 100 years is copyrighted and difficult or impossible to purchase legally. Artificial scarcity for profit.:( Assholes.
The communist threat was greatly exaggerated and even if everybody believed it back then there's no need for you to be apologist towards the US about it now. I'm sure United Fruit would have been overjoyed to get Cambodia after it had been freshly removed of natives. To say that would have been a better outcome than Pol Pot is to completely ignore the fact that the US put it in that situation in the first place.
Why did you need to carpet bomb the country instead of just helping them fight off the evil invaders? Perhaps because you were the evil invaders?
And Israel is a whole other can of worms. Israel is an occupying nation within the sovereign state of Palestine. It is completely illegitimate in my view and it is abhorrent that it is supported by the US.
And just what exactly are you stabilising the middle east for? American cultural hegemony? And whos definition of stable? There's going to be backlash from this for the next two generations at least.
You can't just ignore history up until 1991. The Cold war itself is one of the most significant periods of human history and it has shaped the political landscape like nothing else.
As for Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge? The US bombed the infrastructure of Cambodia for five years after traditional methods of assassination failed to kill Prince Sihanouk, finally overthrowing him with a coup. Pol Pot stepped into the power vacuum and took over a few years later.
As for China... well you just couldn't have had the 70s - 80s - 90s - 00s American consumerism without Chinese manufacturing.
All of this without touching on the white elephant in the room - what is the US really doing in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Israel etc? Why has it gone and stuck its big sticky corporate beak in all of these other countries? What does it stand to gain?
Nobody is saying that EU countries didn't do anything bad. The reason Africa is in such a state is largely because of France, Belgium and the Dutch.
Your claim that the US stops contries from going into revolt is an outright fallacy though. The US purposefully destabilises countries so that they can install their own business-friendly governments. Here are some links:
Other countries in the region were corrupted by coffee or banana or oil profits in much the same way. Even aid from the US is a double edged sword for these countries because it comes with strings like 'you must pay Halliburton to do the reconstruction' instead of creating domestic construction industries and training the people in that country to do the work.
Like I said, I'm not saying Americans should apologise and give everything back, because it happened so long ago that nobody alive is responsible and everyone has mixed their labour with the land for generations. I just think some more consideration, at a federal level, is due.
At least make it *look* like you aren't trying to keep those countries bordering on civil war for your own nefarious reasons (profit motive). Because that's what it looks like from the outside.
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Having not eaten pizza in New York, Chicago or Italy, my basis for comparison is Pizza Hutt and Dominoes in New Zealand.
Both of these outlets allow me to specify the type of base (all of the ones you mentioned are available + some dinky cheese-in-crust things etc) and the toppings and the shape of the pizza. I would call all of the things you mentioned 'pizza', just different types of pizza.
Just like how there's chicken or beef or open top burgers or whatever but they're all burgers and they're all hot sandwiches. Americans didn't invent pizza, Italians moved to America and brought their food with them and modified it.
You could call it 'Chicago' or 'New York' style pizza but its still an Italian dish. :)
Well yeah, except that a burger really is just a hot beef/lettuce/tomato sandwich and a burrito is quite different to a sausage roll or a pita sandwich, in ingredients and presentation.
I always thought pizza was italian and burgers were just some kind of hot sandwich.
Wasn't this the town that the whole building concent process was so corrupted in that almost none of the houses were earthquake proofed, and many had fake earthquake provisions to fool inspectors? Sounds like the city just wants to move the blame.
With a teensy bit of regular maintenance you could save yourself a lot of money. And you might learn something.
'Proof of my existance is the existance of everything' Surely you recognise that as the most circular of arguments? An infallible God would not write this.
'Lack of qualified people' sounds like when they say 'skill shortage' in New Zealand. What it really means is that there is a lack of people who will work for low wages.
Why do you have to fall back on faith? Why can't you just accept that you don't understand it, and try to look for evidence that supports a hypothesis?
Oh, because you DON'T GET IT AT ALL!!? FUCK!! You make me angry. :(
The usefulness of this skill depends on whether you value finding and regurgitating facts (eg case law, or dissection of pop culture) more than you like making new thoughts with your brainmeats. Life somewhat compels one towards the former.
That is a 'watershed' time. Safe harbor means something very different. :)
Most of the time when a fighter pilot finishes his work, nobody died, because most of his work is spent training in simulators, or sitting around doing mental arithmatic. Not much actual shooting down planes, especially in these days of assymetric warfare.
Don't you kids have IRC and instant messaging shit anymore? There are beautiful girls on the internet, by sheer virtue of the number of people on the internet. Sitting around on the internet all day talking on IRC is highly conducive to inviting everyone to your house to sit around and get drunk, and there were always girls wanting to be part of that when it was happening to me (about 10 years ago - when there were far less of them around than now).
Well call it what it is then, don't use words that mean different things. :(
There is some evidence to suggest that staying awake too long might contribute to degenerative brain diseases like alzheimers...
Homosexuality and paedophilia are things that people do to people, not things that figurative representations of people do to figurative representations of other people. At best you can call it role playing.
Doesn't help when much of the material created in the last 100 years is copyrighted and difficult or impossible to purchase legally. Artificial scarcity for profit. :( Assholes.
1638-1655. The colony of New Sweden was located along the Delaware river. :D Think log cabins.
Is there a name for the theory that matter is being sucked out of our universe as fuel for another?
A pussy if you plan to do nothing about it. :P
The communist threat was greatly exaggerated and even if everybody believed it back then there's no need for you to be apologist towards the US about it now. I'm sure United Fruit would have been overjoyed to get Cambodia after it had been freshly removed of natives. To say that would have been a better outcome than Pol Pot is to completely ignore the fact that the US put it in that situation in the first place.
Why did you need to carpet bomb the country instead of just helping them fight off the evil invaders? Perhaps because you were the evil invaders?
And Israel is a whole other can of worms. Israel is an occupying nation within the sovereign state of Palestine. It is completely illegitimate in my view and it is abhorrent that it is supported by the US.
And just what exactly are you stabilising the middle east for? American cultural hegemony? And whos definition of stable? There's going to be backlash from this for the next two generations at least.
You can't just ignore history up until 1991. The Cold war itself is one of the most significant periods of human history and it has shaped the political landscape like nothing else.
As for Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge? The US bombed the infrastructure of Cambodia for five years after traditional methods of assassination failed to kill Prince Sihanouk, finally overthrowing him with a coup. Pol Pot stepped into the power vacuum and took over a few years later.
As for China... well you just couldn't have had the 70s - 80s - 90s - 00s American consumerism without Chinese manufacturing.
All of this without touching on the white elephant in the room - what is the US really doing in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Israel etc? Why has it gone and stuck its big sticky corporate beak in all of these other countries? What does it stand to gain?
Right, so you have started to repair the damage you have done. Congratulations. :) Keep it up. Remove the incentives for corruption.
OK, here's another list.
And tell me why we are ignoring the cold war? Did that not happen?
Nobody is saying that EU countries didn't do anything bad. The reason Africa is in such a state is largely because of France, Belgium and the Dutch.
Your claim that the US stops contries from going into revolt is an outright fallacy though. The US purposefully destabilises countries so that they can install their own business-friendly governments. Here are some links:
Guyana
Venezuela
Jamaica, Libya, Grenada, Nicaragua
I can find you some more if you still don't believe me when you're done with them.
Other countries in the region were corrupted by coffee or banana or oil profits in much the same way. Even aid from the US is a double edged sword for these countries because it comes with strings like 'you must pay Halliburton to do the reconstruction' instead of creating domestic construction industries and training the people in that country to do the work.
Like I said, I'm not saying Americans should apologise and give everything back, because it happened so long ago that nobody alive is responsible and everyone has mixed their labour with the land for generations. I just think some more consideration, at a federal level, is due.
At least make it *look* like you aren't trying to keep those countries bordering on civil war for your own nefarious reasons (profit motive). Because that's what it looks like from the outside.
And you don't suppose that the black market profits to be made in the drug trade might have something to do with some of the corruption?