could be worse. In the early 600s, Easter as calculated by Patrick's Irish/Celtic church was on a different day some years than the Roman church. In one particularly odd incident, the King of Northumbria celebrated Easter on a different day from his wife.
There are two different methods to calculating Easter, and the Irish used the same algorithm as do Eastern Orthodox, today, while Romans (the future RCs) used a simpler calculation. Thus, if your wife is Eastern Orthodox, and you are Roman Catholic or Protestant, you have the same problem, today. This can be a problem in my home city, which imported a lot of Eastern Europeans back in the late 19th C., as well as for NY in a generation, as the children of Russian immigrants start marrying out.
The Council of Whitby resolved this, supposedly.
Only in that it made the Irish-started churches agree that they were under the Pope, and not a yet another brand of Christianity. Christians under one of the other Patriarchs of the time were still unaffected.
> I actually live in Kentucky,
. . . > Though I agree, if you live in Alaska, for example, this is a non-issue.
In fact, it becomes a non-issue farther south than that. My father was in charge of building the Westinghouse Nuclear Division hq outside of Pittsburgh, back in the 1970s, and they used the waste heat of the lights to reduce the furnace requirements. Given how large the computer center in that building is (it was later made one of the NCSA centers, when W bought and became CBS, then spun off or sold all of W), if AC cost more than heat, they would have designed it quite differently.
Everywhere that I know of, they still use a lot of fossil fuels (if only natural gas in peakers running 20 hours of the day, since that used to be easier to get built than a coal-fired, let alone nuclear, power plant).
> And then there's the fact that smelting of steel isn't done with electricity.
It depends on the plant. A WWII-era plant will have moved to Basic Oxygen Process, to lower the particulate emissions, but may be not much more modern. A new steel plant, however, rarely uses the old processes anymore, partially because the industry tends to make smaller runs of many more formulae of steel, rather than huge runs of a couple general types. Most of the new plants use electric furnaces (where the elctricity comes from is another question, of course).
> They pile the steel scraps into a huge chimney that's mostly full of coal,
Coke, not coal. Of course, that doesn't matter much for the CO2 emissions.
> light it up and then force air in until the heat from the coal heats the steel enough to melt.
The Bessemer process isn't used in any plant that I know about -- maybe a few demonstration runs in museums on small models (showing the follies of The Great Leap Forward) -- but pollution controls killed all the ones in the USA, and probably Western Europe, as well. Anything left in Eastern Europe?
> Compared to these issues the energy burned by the bulb is probably > a trivial fragment of the total carbon budget for a light.
Well, that is what you want. Then, convert the steel plants to electric furnaces powered by nuclear reactors, and you have the entire problem... well on the way to solved, if not completely finished.
> so all those huge vacant K-Mart parking lots add up to quite a lot.
I take it you don't shop in one. They aren't very vacant any hour that I have been there.
Since you know about the "realities of carbon output" would it be better to use concrete lots, or does the cement making dump more into the atmosphere?
Okay, so the 1980's redo and this show aren't exactly the same, but come on, if a land-based show failed the first time, why do it again?
For the same reason, when people ask me if I've watched the new Knight Rider, I reply, "No. I already saw Knight Rider 2000 and Viper"
Battlespoon Galaxative and the current BSG are about as similar as the two versions of "The Thing" and in both cases the "remake" was far better than the original. That is why one would at least check out a remake. Ignoring the fact that the original 1970s TV movie actually was pretty good (when the news broke in about that Middle East Peace thingy, the guys in my dorm were quite annoyed), so watching the pilot episode is usually safe.
OTOH, after two failures (three, if you count My Mother, The Car) it might be safer to let a friend watch Knight Rider and tell you if it is any good, then rent the Season One DVD.:-)
From what I recall subliminal messaging was dismissed as bunk a decade ago or earlier.
After an extensive campaign of subliminal messages to that effect (after all, if everyone knows about it, and guards against it, it doesn't work, anymore).
Also...Disney...
honest?...come on....
Perceived, not was. And by the general public, not by people concerned about extending copyright to ridiculous lengths.
You evidently fail to socialize with the wrong sort of Mac user. No Mac user that I know would step into a Starbuck's to ask directions, let alone drink their overpriced milk with coffee favorings, or use their expensive internet sevice.
> There's only one thing that differentiates man from the animals - we're not afraid of vacuum cleaners.
Wrong, even here. My college roommate once ran screaming from our dorm room when another friend said, "Look, the vacuum cleaner is attacking you," and lunged at my roommate with the intake wand. Of course, said roommate was dropping acid, at the time, and that may have altered his perception and reactions a tad.
2001 had no rings around Jupiter, whereas there are several. Perhaps that is what you were thinking?
Of course, if the film had done a flight to Saturn, its rings would probably have been wrong as well, as getting space probes close up revealed far more details than Calrke and Kubrick had.
He also wrote a number of science popularization/education books. I do not remember, anymore, how the Clarke-Asimov Treaty split which one was the Best SF Writer and which was the Best Science Writer, but even if he got the best SF writer crown, he still wrote quite a bit on reality, as well. OTOH, I doubt that much is still being printed, by now. Check the used book stores on the web, I suppose.
Maybe they don't cover the civilian "advancements" in the field because they consider them reinventing the wheel. Granted, it is a wheel that only they and British Intelligence (OK, and probably the KGB, whatever its new initials are, too) know about, but they probably consider it old news.
I once talked to someone who repaired an electron microscope that they used, presumably to test chips before they go into the ceramic casing, and he said that everything that he saw was at least ten years ahead of the civilian market. They had designs for spread-spectrum transmission in WWII, remember.
Do you mean the George Washington Parkway? If so, your comment is almost redundant. I once described the directions to get there from National as "after the first sign, if you see a sign to anywhere, don't go that way."
They also have almost no signs on the road. It seems that if you don't know your way on it, you might as well get lost, as far as its controlling agency cares. That, or it is an on-ramp to The Road from Roger Zelazny's Roadmarks.
> Should we have framed the question in terms of political parties?
Well, as a non-Astrology-believing Republican male, I am fine with that, too:-)
> Was the goal to be insulting?
Duh. Of course it was. Just as your goal in the last two paragraphs was to be insulting to religious believers, especially ones in the USA. After all, no anti-religious person, like Stalin or Pol Pot, ever had anyone killed who didn't deserve it.
As to the original posts assuming scientific men and astrology-believing women, you seem to be expecting mature behavior from a group that has been isolated from girls, and is mostly barely beyond "boy" in age, especially expecting it from ALL of them. There is a standard meme for this, and it is not about welcoming overlords or the ownership of bases, nor sharks.
Finally, your initial spelling quibble. The OP might have even meant form a FIFO (OK, a line) for those jokes (this IS Slashdot), in which case he is right even in the USA (it is still "Queuing Theory" here). For that matter, I have seen the billiard ball spelled as "queue" in British publications, let alone an other sense of those homophones.
The answer is obvious: An endless middle east peace problem makes for an endless supply of news, bad news specifically, and good ratings.
So the Mid East conflict was invented and made difficult to solve to give reporters a job? Ord Wingate, maybe, but reporters? No chance that wars, social security, illegal immigration, etc might be difficult because they are difficult, given two groups that are convinced that they are right not because one group is deluded but because neither group accepts the other side's postulates in the argument?
Hormone-laced meat is ingested, then digested. Barring ulcers or recently extracted teeth, that barrier will keep out lots of problems. Most people could drink snake venom or curare without ill effects, because digestion is so effective at breaking down what is consumed. This is true even if the meat is not cooked; oddly, most meat is cooked, as well, further denaturing the ingested substances.
As to the European Commission, I would point out that it is in their interest to keep out non-European agricultural products that compete with European ones, regardless of the excuse. If they could, they would probably say that it was cursed by the spirits of the dead native American Indians.
Even anecdotally, its starting to concern many (very poorly educated) people in my community when they observe that their 10 and 12 year old daughters are in the advanced stages of puberty. That's becoming the norm, when a century ago it would have been all but unheard of. Even as an anecdotal observation, its causing a significant number of concerned parents.
The reason that 10 and 12 year old are in puberty is that we are dosing them with chemicals. Polymerized amino acids, fats, dextrose, vitamins A-K. Or, in non-alarmist terms, even welfare recipients can eat more and better than medieval monarchs ever did, especially compared with the lower lifestyle requirements (medieval nobility had calorie requirements similar to modern elite army units). Higher levels of nutrition in children produce larger children who mature earlier, so that if they were hunter-gatherers they could reproduce faster and maintain their access to resources against other tribes.
Since we do not live in hunter-gatherer societies, this causes a few problems. Today's US football players make even those from the 1970s and 80s look small, and so ruin the record-setting and keeping business, and its even worse in basketball. There is a six year delay between when nature wants teens sexually active and when society wants it, and it is even longer for college-bound children (note that I said when society wants it, not when they actually start). OTOH, we don't see people dying of starvation in first world countries without comment (vs. Edmond Dantes' father, frex) anymore, either.
But, I find the original radio show very enjoyable and have listened to it far more times than I've read Hitchhiker's. In case you weren't aware, the BBC rounded out the radio show a couple of years back using as many as possible of the original cast as possible.
Except that they took the contents from the three books, making no attempt to either tie them into the original series, or to really adapt them to radio. Instead, it was more like a multipart dramatic reading.
And, of course, they castrated the ending from Mostly Harmless. Mind you, I hated the original ending, the only virtue of which is that the railroad it created ended the series more finally than the story of Holmes at Reichenbach Falls did. Nevertheless, it was Adams' work, and the epilogues were not (and it quite obvious).
> > "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally acccessible and useful" > > I guess they need to add an asterisk to that mission statement.
It could be worse. If Google were a HAL9000, you'd be dead, now. Or at the very least, every network adapter and router would be unable to connect, and they wouldn't kill you until you tried to replace one.
> decided that Hispanic reminded them of the Spanish conquest, and they preferred Latino.
What? They preferred the Roman conquest?
I suppose that, by her rule, someone from Scotland should be against that term, because the Scots are the Ulaidi Irish who took over what the Romans called Caledonia (mostly by cunning marriages)(BTW, Ulaidi is now Ulster. Isn't history ironic?) or the French against that because they are Gauls (the Franks were the Germans, who made up the upper classes until the guillotine removed them from their positions).
> and when I say Latino, I mean a Latin American (which excludes Spaniards).
Spaniards, who speak the variety of Latin-descended language closest to Classical Latin? Well, that makes sense.
> Also, Iranians are caucasians, so calling white people caucasians is stupid.
No, Iranians are ARYANS, in fact the origin of the term.
Georgians and Armenians and Kurds are Caucasians.
Anyway, Obama is black because he claims that he is black, even if he doesn't share the "Black Experience" by not having any slave ancestors (within the last 150-200 years, and in North or South America, or the Caribbean. I don't KNOW that his ancestors didn't include slaves not sold to Europeans) or speaking in a recognizably black dialect (like most blacks, who speak a variety of Wessex English with a slight Southern White drawl).
BTW, Hispanic does NOT refer to Spaniards, in practice (thus leaving out Antonio Bandaras or Javier Bardem, who ARE Spaniards). Just some more nonsense.
1. He delivers better speeches than either candidate. (btw, It's ridiculous Hilary deprecates this considering what an important skill this is for a head of state).
Because good speeches worked so well for Gore or Kerry? Or Ted Kennedy? Or Stephen Douglas, for that matter.
*Just* giving good speeches does nothing. Her contention is that he will be unable to follow up any of his great speeches because they are too vague and/or high-flying for any real-world implementation, especially by him with his dearth of experience.
This might work better if she had been Governor of some state, or higher in the Senate leadership, like LBJ (a very successful President until Vietnam sucked him down).
3. He appeals to the young vote, and so is likely to bring more total voters into the democratic side, many of whom despise Hilary over her stance over net neutrality, video game censorship, and general hostility towards the baby boomer generation.
Um, she IS the baby boomer generation, and "young" people AREN'T. Some may be the Boomer Echo (like Chelsea) but the Boomer period ends around 1955-62, depending on who is counting (usually the earlier values, but it tails, some). Kindly use the correct terms. Otherwise, you will end up calling Wm F Buckley a neo-con, or something.:-)
Anyway, depending on the Children's Crusade is always a losing strategy, from the original to McCarthy to McGovern to now.
5. He can honestly say he was opposed to the war from day one. Hilary on the other hand is going to get *nailed* for flip flopping in the general election the same way it happened in the 2004 election.
Nailed by whom? The candidate from the Socialist Workers? She is running against someone who supports winning the war, however it came about.
> How exactly will opening up to Cuba kill our domestic > sugar industry any more than the other Caribbean > nations? Is there sugar that much better?
No, cheaper. Thanks to the Platt Amendments (which give us basing rights at Gitmo until *both* Cuba and the USA want out), the US government is supposed to subsidize the Cuban sugar market, the same way that the Russins did (to reverse the order of things -- they followed the same arrangement as the USA had, first). When the original provisions were put in, this meant cheaper sugar for a USA market without domestic sources. Now, we have a fairly extensive couple of industries (sugar beets is almost totally separate from sugar cane, they do not even produce cooking-compatible products), which will collapse if US Goevernment-subsidized sugar floods the market (which it will; I believe that we would be obligated to buy most if not all of their crop, too).
The leader of Iran, Mossadek, dared to demand from British Petroleum part of the oil revenue - 50%. Looks like a fair deal. But he was chased out for this and replaced by a puppet shah. By the way that is the real reason of the Islamic fundamentalism of today.
Except that Ayatollah Khomeini and the mullahs hated Mossadek far worse than we or the British did. It may have been a reason for the Iranian Socialists to oppose the Shah, but it certainly didn't cause the Islamists to be anti-US.
And then that amazingly incompetent Bay of Pigs assault was tried, and it was clear to many, not just Castro, that he had no chance of cooperation with the USA. So he cooperated with the Soviets, who helped provide foreign currency and trade as a showpiece of Communism in the Western hemisphere, and as a critical military base.
And the fact that Raul Castro and Che Guevara had been Communists for years before the Revolution, or that Castro had pointedly never said that he was not one himself had nothing to do with supposing that he really was one? The Bay of Pigs assault was planned because it was patently obvious that Castro was and had been a Communist, or at least was willing to be one to enhance his personal power.
Seriously, "Cuba could have gone either way" is about as realistic as supposing that Mao could have gone either way.
You DO NOT successfully, peacefully advance rogue countries by ostracising them. Even just recently, Cuba signed on to Human Rights covenants/laws
Since we haven't ended or even relaxed the Embargo, recently, it looks like it might be working, then.
now that Fidel Castro turned power over to his brother.
Like Bill Gates has turned the "power" over to Steve Ballmer.
it ought to be criminal to expect people to put on a uniform to potentially go and kill or threaten to kill relatives in OR outside the country.
Why? It wasn't criminal when my grandfather was expected to put on his uniform to kill his cousins in Germany during WWI, nor if my father had been just a few years older, for him during WWII.
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There are two different methods to calculating Easter, and the Irish used the same algorithm as do Eastern Orthodox, today, while Romans (the future RCs) used a simpler calculation. Thus, if your wife is Eastern Orthodox, and you are Roman Catholic or Protestant, you have the same problem, today. This can be a problem in my home city, which imported a lot of Eastern Europeans back in the late 19th C., as well as for NY in a generation, as the children of Russian immigrants start marrying out.
Only in that it made the Irish-started churches agree that they were under the Pope, and not a yet another brand of Christianity. Christians under one of the other Patriarchs of the time were still unaffected.
> I actually live in Kentucky,
. . .
> Though I agree, if you live in Alaska, for example, this is a non-issue.
In fact, it becomes a non-issue farther south than that. My father was in charge of building the Westinghouse Nuclear Division hq outside of Pittsburgh, back in the 1970s, and they used the waste heat of the lights to reduce the furnace requirements. Given how large the computer center in that building is (it was later made one of the NCSA centers, when W bought and became CBS, then spun off or sold all of W), if AC cost more than heat, they would have designed it quite differently.
But we don't all live in Arizona, so that will be rather different for some of us than for you.
> I'm surrounded by hydro and nuclear.
Where are you? Post 2100 Utopia?
Everywhere that I know of, they still use a lot of fossil fuels (if only natural gas in peakers running 20 hours of the day, since that used to be easier to get built than a coal-fired, let alone nuclear, power plant).
> And then there's the fact that smelting of steel isn't done with electricity.
... well on the way to solved, if not completely finished.
It depends on the plant. A WWII-era plant will have moved to Basic Oxygen Process, to lower the particulate emissions, but may be not much more modern. A new steel plant, however, rarely uses the old processes anymore, partially because the industry tends to make smaller runs of many more formulae of steel, rather than huge runs of a couple general types. Most of the new plants use electric furnaces (where the elctricity comes from is another question, of course).
> They pile the steel scraps into a huge chimney that's mostly full of coal,
Coke, not coal. Of course, that doesn't matter much for the CO2 emissions.
> light it up and then force air in until the heat from the coal heats the steel enough to melt.
The Bessemer process isn't used in any plant that I know about -- maybe a few demonstration runs in museums on small models (showing the follies of The Great Leap Forward) -- but pollution controls killed all the ones in the USA, and probably Western Europe, as well. Anything left in Eastern Europe?
> Compared to these issues the energy burned by the bulb is probably
> a trivial fragment of the total carbon budget for a light.
Well, that is what you want. Then, convert the steel plants to electric furnaces powered by nuclear reactors, and you have the entire problem
> so all those huge vacant K-Mart parking lots add up to quite a lot.
I take it you don't shop in one. They aren't very vacant any hour that I have been there.
Since you know about the "realities of carbon output" would it be better to use concrete lots, or does the cement making dump more into the atmosphere?
Battlespoon Galaxative and the current BSG are about as similar as the two versions of "The Thing" and in both cases the "remake" was far better than the original. That is why one would at least check out a remake. Ignoring the fact that the original 1970s TV movie actually was pretty good (when the news broke in about that Middle East Peace thingy, the guys in my dorm were quite annoyed), so watching the pilot episode is usually safe.
OTOH, after two failures (three, if you count My Mother, The Car) it might be safer to let a friend watch Knight Rider and tell you if it is any good, then rent the Season One DVD. :-)
After an extensive campaign of subliminal messages to that effect (after all, if everyone knows about it, and guards against it, it doesn't work, anymore).
Perceived, not was. And by the general public, not by people concerned about extending copyright to ridiculous lengths.
> There's only one thing that differentiates man from the animals - we're not afraid of vacuum cleaners.
Wrong, even here. My college roommate once ran screaming from our dorm room when another friend said, "Look, the vacuum cleaner is attacking you," and lunged at my roommate with the intake wand. Of course, said roommate was dropping acid, at the time, and that may have altered his perception and reactions a tad.
Of course, if the film had done a flight to Saturn, its rings would probably have been wrong as well, as getting space probes close up revealed far more details than Calrke and Kubrick had.
He also wrote a number of science popularization/education books. I do not remember, anymore, how the Clarke-Asimov Treaty split which one was the Best SF Writer and which was the Best Science Writer, but even if he got the best SF writer crown, he still wrote quite a bit on reality, as well. OTOH, I doubt that much is still being printed, by now. Check the used book stores on the web, I suppose.
> It's to be argued if most of the writing attributed
> to Shakespeare was actually even written by him.
Utterly unimportant to the point being made. If you prefer substituting any of the supposed "real" authors the point is unchanged.
I once talked to someone who repaired an electron microscope that they used, presumably to test chips before they go into the ceramic casing, and he said that everything that he saw was at least ten years ahead of the civilian market. They had designs for spread-spectrum transmission in WWII, remember.
> you'd have to take the BW parkway
Do you mean the George Washington Parkway? If so, your comment is almost redundant. I once described the directions to get there from National as "after the first sign, if you see a sign to anywhere, don't go that way."
They also have almost no signs on the road. It seems that if you don't know your way on it, you might as well get lost, as far as its controlling agency cares. That, or it is an on-ramp to The Road from Roger Zelazny's Roadmarks.
Well, as a non-Astrology-believing Republican male, I am fine with that, too :-)
> Was the goal to be insulting?
Duh. Of course it was. Just as your goal in the last two paragraphs was to be insulting to religious believers, especially ones in the USA. After all, no anti-religious person, like Stalin or Pol Pot, ever had anyone killed who didn't deserve it.
As to the original posts assuming scientific men and astrology-believing women, you seem to be expecting mature behavior from a group that has been isolated from girls, and is mostly barely beyond "boy" in age, especially expecting it from ALL of them. There is a standard meme for this, and it is not about welcoming overlords or the ownership of bases, nor sharks.
Finally, your initial spelling quibble. The OP might have even meant form a FIFO (OK, a line) for those jokes (this IS Slashdot), in which case he is right even in the USA (it is still "Queuing Theory" here). For that matter, I have seen the billiard ball spelled as "queue" in British publications, let alone an other sense of those homophones.
So the Mid East conflict was invented and made difficult to solve to give reporters a job? Ord Wingate, maybe, but reporters? No chance that wars, social security, illegal immigration, etc might be difficult because they are difficult, given two groups that are convinced that they are right not because one group is deluded but because neither group accepts the other side's postulates in the argument?
As to the European Commission, I would point out that it is in their interest to keep out non-European agricultural products that compete with European ones, regardless of the excuse. If they could, they would probably say that it was cursed by the spirits of the dead native American Indians.
The reason that 10 and 12 year old are in puberty is that we are dosing them with chemicals. Polymerized amino acids, fats, dextrose, vitamins A-K. Or, in non-alarmist terms, even welfare recipients can eat more and better than medieval monarchs ever did, especially compared with the lower lifestyle requirements (medieval nobility had calorie requirements similar to modern elite army units). Higher levels of nutrition in children produce larger children who mature earlier, so that if they were hunter-gatherers they could reproduce faster and maintain their access to resources against other tribes.
Since we do not live in hunter-gatherer societies, this causes a few problems. Today's US football players make even those from the 1970s and 80s look small, and so ruin the record-setting and keeping business, and its even worse in basketball. There is a six year delay between when nature wants teens sexually active and when society wants it, and it is even longer for college-bound children (note that I said when society wants it, not when they actually start). OTOH, we don't see people dying of starvation in first world countries without comment (vs. Edmond Dantes' father, frex) anymore, either.
Except that they took the contents from the three books, making no attempt to either tie them into the original series, or to really adapt them to radio. Instead, it was more like a multipart dramatic reading.
And, of course, they castrated the ending from Mostly Harmless. Mind you, I hated the original ending, the only virtue of which is that the railroad it created ended the series more finally than the story of Holmes at Reichenbach Falls did. Nevertheless, it was Adams' work, and the epilogues were not (and it quite obvious).
> > "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally acccessible and useful"
>
> I guess they need to add an asterisk to that mission statement.
It could be worse. If Google were a HAL9000, you'd be dead, now. Or at the very least, every network adapter and router would be unable to connect, and they wouldn't kill you until you tried to replace one.
> decided that Hispanic reminded them of the Spanish conquest, and they preferred Latino.
What? They preferred the Roman conquest?
I suppose that, by her rule, someone from Scotland should be against that term, because the Scots are the Ulaidi Irish who took over what the Romans called Caledonia (mostly by cunning marriages)(BTW, Ulaidi is now Ulster. Isn't history ironic?) or the French against that because they are Gauls (the Franks were the Germans, who made up the upper classes until the guillotine removed them from their positions).
> and when I say Latino, I mean a Latin American (which excludes Spaniards).
Spaniards, who speak the variety of Latin-descended language closest to Classical Latin? Well, that makes sense.
> Also, Iranians are caucasians, so calling white people caucasians is stupid.
No, Iranians are ARYANS, in fact the origin of the term.
Georgians and Armenians and Kurds are Caucasians.
Anyway, Obama is black because he claims that he is black, even if he doesn't share the "Black Experience" by not having any slave ancestors (within the last 150-200 years, and in North or South America, or the Caribbean. I don't KNOW that his ancestors didn't include slaves not sold to Europeans) or speaking in a recognizably black dialect (like most blacks, who speak a variety of Wessex English with a slight Southern White drawl).
BTW, Hispanic does NOT refer to Spaniards, in practice (thus leaving out Antonio Bandaras or Javier Bardem, who ARE Spaniards). Just some more nonsense.
Because good speeches worked so well for Gore or Kerry? Or Ted Kennedy? Or Stephen Douglas, for that matter.
*Just* giving good speeches does nothing. Her contention is that he will be unable to follow up any of his great speeches because they are too vague and/or high-flying for any real-world implementation, especially by him with his dearth of experience.
This might work better if she had been Governor of some state, or higher in the Senate leadership, like LBJ (a very successful President until Vietnam sucked him down).
Um, she IS the baby boomer generation, and "young" people AREN'T. Some may be the Boomer Echo (like Chelsea) but the Boomer period ends around 1955-62, depending on who is counting (usually the earlier values, but it tails, some). Kindly use the correct terms. Otherwise, you will end up calling Wm F Buckley a neo-con, or something. :-)
Anyway, depending on the Children's Crusade is always a losing strategy, from the original to McCarthy to McGovern to now.
Nailed by whom? The candidate from the Socialist Workers? She is running against someone who supports winning the war, however it came about.
> How exactly will opening up to Cuba kill our domestic
> sugar industry any more than the other Caribbean
> nations? Is there sugar that much better?
No, cheaper. Thanks to the Platt Amendments (which give us basing rights at Gitmo until *both* Cuba and the USA want out), the US government is supposed to subsidize the Cuban sugar market, the same way that the Russins did (to reverse the order of things -- they followed the same arrangement as the USA had, first). When the original provisions were put in, this meant cheaper sugar for a USA market without domestic sources. Now, we have a fairly extensive couple of industries (sugar beets is almost totally separate from sugar cane, they do not even produce cooking-compatible products), which will collapse if US Goevernment-subsidized sugar floods the market (which it will; I believe that we would be obligated to buy most if not all of their crop, too).
Except that Ayatollah Khomeini and the mullahs hated Mossadek far worse than we or the British did. It may have been a reason for the Iranian Socialists to oppose the Shah, but it certainly didn't cause the Islamists to be anti-US.
And the fact that Raul Castro and Che Guevara had been Communists for years before the Revolution, or that Castro had pointedly never said that he was not one himself had nothing to do with supposing that he really was one? The Bay of Pigs assault was planned because it was patently obvious that Castro was and had been a Communist, or at least was willing to be one to enhance his personal power.
Seriously, "Cuba could have gone either way" is about as realistic as supposing that Mao could have gone either way.
Since we haven't ended or even relaxed the Embargo, recently, it looks like it might be working, then.
Like Bill Gates has turned the "power" over to Steve Ballmer.
Why? It wasn't criminal when my grandfather was expected to put on his uniform to kill his cousins in Germany during WWI, nor if my father had been just a few years older, for him during WWII.
BTW, who is threatening to kill Cubans?