Obviously y'all had sympathies with Hitler and only got dragged kicking & screaming into a fight with him when his allies attacked you
At the time Americans were, in general isolationists and had been for a decade, and just starting to come out of the Great Depression that had so hammered the country.
Even with that, the US was the first to cease its neutrality with the Lend Lease program to the UK and USSR. Even before that, the US "sold" military equipment to the Allies for ridiculously low sums (not money, but things like sending 50 destroyers to the UK in return for the right to dock ships in the Caribbean).
It seems to be generally believed these days that the Axis attacks on the US were unprovoked, but the US had been supplying equipment to Allies and doing things like cutting off the supply of oil to the Japanese so that it's something the US should have seen coming.
Sorry, this amendment was added to the constitution when? Also, Julian Assange planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist acts on September 11, 2001 or harbored such organizations or persons?
Well the courts have not overturned it yet, so it can be considered the law of the land. And I believe the poster was bringing it up in response to existing drone strikes, not as a justification of one on Assange.
Which nuclear power are you talking about though? Both the US and UK are nuclear powers.
Nuclear power does little unless you're suicidal. Everyone knows that if you nuke a country, every other country will turn on the nuker, and the nuker will not survive.
You mean like that guy that made a movie showing what the Koran says about the "dear prophet"? last I heard he was in jail, they found an excuse and used it.
Make NO mistake there ARE protected classes in the USA and if you piss off one of the protected classes you WILL get attacked, probably lose your job, maybe even go to jail.
My apologies, but are you talking about the fellow who made The Innocence of Muslims? The guy committed bank fraud and was sent to prison, and that was all before he poked the Muslim world with a stick. The terms of his probation was that he couldn't use aliases (which he had used to kite checks and steal money) and his Internet use had to be pre-approved by his parole officer.
When he broke his parole he did it in the most public way possible. Not surprisingly, he went back to jail. Was he supposed to be treated differently just because he posted a controversial video that many people might agree with?
It reminds me of the 'logical proofs' of the existence of God that Descartes held (though I have heard others attribute it to Augustine). Stated plainly it stated that he imagined a perfect God. One of the aspects of a perfect God is his existence. He couldn't imagine a perfect God if God did not exist, therefore, God must exist.
and slower freights would collapse the passenger scheduling to the point where delays and cancellations would be frequent, not a good selling point for HSR.
It's a hell of a lot easier to get the land for an airport as opposed to right-of-way lines that extend all across a state. I'd wager it's one of the primary reasons the costs for California's high-speed raid have ballooned by billions and billions of dollars.
Complete rubbish... destabilization is the intent. In their eyes, few things are more dangerous than a stable, powerful, independent Arab state. Take a look at any before and after invasion pictures of those countries before spouting such nonsense.
Israel was so much happier when Mubarak was in charge of Egypt.
Washington Post is reporting 42 dead confirmed at an aid station for Morsi supporters, 60 dead estimated by the Egyptian government, and over 2000 esimated by the Muslim Brotherhood. Where are you seeing 15-20?
It's almost like the body count has gone up over time as they counted the dead!
The problem with the "always on" news cycle is that fact-checking isn't part of it. They all want to be first to report, so if it's wrong, who cares, we'll patch it later.
It's this kind of speculative journalism that gives conspiracy theorists fuel for the shadowy figures in smokey rooms trope.
Oh, if only I hadn't posted a joke on this topic and can't use my mod points on it anymore...
Someone else please mod the parent up! Being 'first' is far more important in the journalism world than being right. That, and filling airtime with talking on the story du jour, even when you don't know anything and nothing has changed.
So? No matter who is behind it, it showed just how horrible the Russian government really is.
Back in the Cold War days I never thought the time would ever come that someone blowing the whistle on the American Government's evil behavior would seek and find asylum in a communist country like China or Russia.
It's always good to seek asylum from countries who 1) CAN protect you (unlike, say, Sweden) if what you expose is really embarrassing, and 2) have an interest in protecting you should that embarrassment work out politically for them.
How dare you insult the Glorious Leader. Messiah Obummer is bringing the world hope and change.
I'm getting tired of this strawman. Only ultra-conversations believe that liberals worship Obama. Most that I've heard from consider him fairly disappointing, but they don't have anyone else to support in the election.
Cats know better than to "fight" humans in the way you describe.
I'm not sure. My cat likes a very specific amount of petting. Pet him too much and he gets annoyed and starts lashing his tail. Pet him more and then out come the slashing claws!
You need to replace your filter, as it obviously isn't working. I have the most up to date filter imaginable for that. I gag even thinking about trying to choke down anything from McDonalds.
Same here.
I remember reading that food from McDonalds, over-processed and over-sweetened, doesn't taste good to a person who hasn't eaten it before, it's only through repeated consumption that the body adjusts to handle food that unhealthy that it tastes "good" and you get cravings. I took that with a grain of salt (sounded like bullshit to me) but I always wondered how truthful that was.
False flag for those who do not know is what the government or any organization does to distract the not-so-smart people while a more sinister plan is enacted. In short: "Look a flying saucer!" meanwhile "BANG!" something blows up.
It's not like you say "Siri, I like dogs" and it goes right to a gallery of people having doggystyle sex.
That's preposterous. Obviously it'd go right to a gallery of people having sex with dogs.;)
Technically, it -should- call up pictures of the speaker having sex with dogs. If it's a truly smart program, it will be able to photo-manip two pictures together to show it.
This is good news... If all posts were this venomous, all PS3 / XBONE / WiiU posts would sound like an expletive filled angry drunk rant by a person with turrets syndrome
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Obviously y'all had sympathies with Hitler and only got dragged kicking & screaming into a fight with him when his allies attacked you
At the time Americans were, in general isolationists and had been for a decade, and just starting to come out of the Great Depression that had so hammered the country.
Even with that, the US was the first to cease its neutrality with the Lend Lease program to the UK and USSR. Even before that, the US "sold" military equipment to the Allies for ridiculously low sums (not money, but things like sending 50 destroyers to the UK in return for the right to dock ships in the Caribbean).
It seems to be generally believed these days that the Axis attacks on the US were unprovoked, but the US had been supplying equipment to Allies and doing things like cutting off the supply of oil to the Japanese so that it's something the US should have seen coming.
Sorry, this amendment was added to the constitution when? Also, Julian Assange planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist acts on September 11, 2001 or harbored such organizations or persons?
Well the courts have not overturned it yet, so it can be considered the law of the land. And I believe the poster was bringing it up in response to existing drone strikes, not as a justification of one on Assange.
Which nuclear power are you talking about though? Both the US and UK are nuclear powers.
Nuclear power does little unless you're suicidal. Everyone knows that if you nuke a country, every other country will turn on the nuker, and the nuker will not survive.
You mean like that guy that made a movie showing what the Koran says about the "dear prophet"? last I heard he was in jail, they found an excuse and used it.
Make NO mistake there ARE protected classes in the USA and if you piss off one of the protected classes you WILL get attacked, probably lose your job, maybe even go to jail.
My apologies, but are you talking about the fellow who made The Innocence of Muslims? The guy committed bank fraud and was sent to prison, and that was all before he poked the Muslim world with a stick. The terms of his probation was that he couldn't use aliases (which he had used to kite checks and steal money) and his Internet use had to be pre-approved by his parole officer.
When he broke his parole he did it in the most public way possible. Not surprisingly, he went back to jail. Was he supposed to be treated differently just because he posted a controversial video that many people might agree with?
He's also out of jail now, on probation again.
That's someone believing in the invisible hand, not the invisible friend.
That's true, The Market is nobody's "friend."
It reminds me of the 'logical proofs' of the existence of God that Descartes held (though I have heard others attribute it to Augustine). Stated plainly it stated that he imagined a perfect God. One of the aspects of a perfect God is his existence. He couldn't imagine a perfect God if God did not exist, therefore, God must exist.
and slower freights would collapse the passenger scheduling to the point where delays and cancellations would be frequent, not a good selling point for HSR.
Ah yes, the Amtrak model.
It's a hell of a lot easier to get the land for an airport as opposed to right-of-way lines that extend all across a state. I'd wager it's one of the primary reasons the costs for California's high-speed raid have ballooned by billions and billions of dollars.
Don't be a douchebag, AC.
Has anyone NOT read 1984 by now
I haven't, but it's hard to be on the Internet for awhile and not get a Cliff Notes version fairly often.
But overall if I didn't want spoilers of 1984, I wouldn't be reading the replies to a post marked "[Spoiler] Last page of 1984".
There is nothing more common on Slashdot today than someone misinterpreting Godwin's Law.
US/UK/Israel want stability in the region.
Complete rubbish... destabilization is the intent. In their eyes, few things are more dangerous than a stable, powerful, independent Arab state. Take a look at any before and after invasion pictures of those countries before spouting such nonsense.
Israel was so much happier when Mubarak was in charge of Egypt.
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Whoops!! I forgot.. The truth is not allowed here... So sorry... Didn't mean to offend the little generals.
Probably because it was pointlessly off topic? The original poster WAS trolling.
Washington Post is reporting 42 dead confirmed at an aid station for Morsi supporters, 60 dead estimated by the Egyptian government, and over 2000 esimated by the Muslim Brotherhood. Where are you seeing 15-20?
It's almost like the body count has gone up over time as they counted the dead!
The problem with the "always on" news cycle is that fact-checking isn't part of it. They all want to be first to report, so if it's wrong, who cares, we'll patch it later.
It's this kind of speculative journalism that gives conspiracy theorists fuel for the shadowy figures in smokey rooms trope.
Oh, if only I hadn't posted a joke on this topic and can't use my mod points on it anymore...
Someone else please mod the parent up! Being 'first' is far more important in the journalism world than being right. That, and filling airtime with talking on the story du jour, even when you don't know anything and nothing has changed.
Libya is the most moderate and pro western friendly government int the middle east!
Methinks Israel and Jordan might quibble with that a bit. :-)
Not really. The cost of the disc is precisely what the movie studios think people will pay for it. No more, no less.
So?
No matter who is behind it, it showed just how horrible the Russian government really is.
Back in the Cold War days I never thought the time would ever come that someone blowing the whistle on the American Government's evil behavior would seek and find asylum in a communist country like China or Russia.
It's always good to seek asylum from countries who 1) CAN protect you (unlike, say, Sweden) if what you expose is really embarrassing, and 2) have an interest in protecting you should that embarrassment work out politically for them.
How dare you insult the Glorious Leader. Messiah Obummer is bringing the world hope and change.
I'm getting tired of this strawman. Only ultra-conversations believe that liberals worship Obama. Most that I've heard from consider him fairly disappointing, but they don't have anyone else to support in the election.
Cats know better than to "fight" humans in the way you describe.
I'm not sure. My cat likes a very specific amount of petting. Pet him too much and he gets annoyed and starts lashing his tail. Pet him more and then out come the slashing claws!
Yeah, I mean... unsafe? Was he talking about hazards on the way to the landing strip? Because isn't the entire approach path over the water?
You need to replace your filter, as it obviously isn't working. I have the most up to date filter imaginable for that. I gag even thinking about trying to choke down anything from McDonalds.
Same here.
I remember reading that food from McDonalds, over-processed and over-sweetened, doesn't taste good to a person who hasn't eaten it before, it's only through repeated consumption that the body adjusts to handle food that unhealthy that it tastes "good" and you get cravings. I took that with a grain of salt (sounded like bullshit to me) but I always wondered how truthful that was.
False flag for those who do not know is what the government or any organization does to distract the not-so-smart people while a more sinister plan is enacted. In short: "Look a flying saucer!" meanwhile "BANG!" something blows up.
That's actually more "Wag the Dog."
It's not like you say "Siri, I like dogs" and it goes right to a gallery of people having doggystyle sex.
That's preposterous. Obviously it'd go right to a gallery of people having sex with dogs. ;)
Technically, it -should- call up pictures of the speaker having sex with dogs. If it's a truly smart program, it will be able to photo-manip two pictures together to show it.
This is good news... If all posts were this venomous, all PS3 / XBONE / WiiU posts would sound like an expletive filled angry drunk rant by a person with turrets syndrome
Oh, so you DO read online gaming websites. :-)