Ugh you are talking like Taiwan is a US territory. They are not like HK was, no US entities pick who runs Taiwan or how. (Or you could be sure the DPP would never have won an election. President Chen was well known to have had the US State Department tearing its hair out.) Taiwanese people might consider the two system possibility in three decades when they can see what China really does to HK after the noninterference period is over. I expect it to go about as well as June 4, 1989.
Whoa there KMT lapdog, just because President Chen was a bit unrestrained doesn't mean everybody in the DPP is... that's like more than a third of the country, dawg. If you paid attention to Dr. Tsai's campaign she was much more moderate on the independence issue than Chen. She only lost because the chauvinists among the moderates would rather vote for a PRC collaborator than a woman. Keep on playing by the PRC's rules and you too can end up just like the boiling frog SARs. What a future.
Formosa has colonial connotations. It's remained somewhat in use because it's denotative meaning is flattering, but yeah... it's a reminder of the various European occupations.
Ask Chen Shuibian. He came nearly as close to reigniting open war with China as anybody since the Nixon era. The fact that it didn't happen suggests that Taiwan's options remain fairly open so long as they can get external cooperation (that's where China has its real leverage, leaning on potential allies of Taiwan to not sell them things or make certain political arrangements). Then again it hasn't been much of an issue since Ma Yingjeou's administration has made it a policy to fellate the PRC in secret back-room concession fests at every opportunity.
ROC technically controls part of two provinces, not only Taiwan but some minor outlying islands that are considered part of Guandong IIRC.
Regardless of the legal fantasies of the KMT, the majority of Taiwanese see themselves as independent (not just the DPP and the pan greens, but independence is only one issue, and people aren't going to ignore all of the domestic policy issues of the political spectrum just because of how they feel about independence, so there are quite a few KMT and pan blues who would consider Taiwan independent as well).
Cross straight relations and history are sometimes difficult to parse. What he said was correct, the ROC still doesn't recognize the PRC as legitimate (and vice versa) and in the immediate years after the Chinese Civil War, most of the world continued to see the ROC as the legitimate government of China in exile. After a several years it became obvious that the PRC wasn't going anywhere and world opinion about legitimacy flipped.
People act like training is some magical thing. Training is nothing more than guided experience on a schedule. Intelligent people, it may surprise you, have experiences all the time, and being intelligent they can process those experiences into a useful understanding, gasp, without formal training!
I have lots of technical certs which I know a lot of people train for with classes and whatever, but I never took classes or read any books. I had enough unscheduled, unguided real world experience to just get the certs. Training isn't magical, it doesn't represent an exclusive path to knowledge and ability, so stop patronizing people.
Cute, but unless you hold a phone at eye level with the road, which I've never seen anybody do, it is in fact completely different. There's a reason that modern military aircraft have HUDs with vital information on them, because the time it takes to move your eyes around, locate and focus on various things can be critical at high speeds. When the visual separation is trivial it can in fact increase concentration, and if you disagree, please inform the world's air forces at once on your genius discovery.
Plenty of people browse at zero, numbnuts, and you're not exactly giving anybody any 'super secret inside scoop'. Anybody with a pair of brain cells to rub together could see the same thing from the outside.
The prediction of China's rise was at least as old as Napoleon Bonaparte who is reputed to have said, "Let [China] sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world." Really any historian with a better than passing knowledge of East Asia would have prognosticated the same thing, it was simply that before the 20th century few people in the West bothered to educate themselves on Chinese matters further than the shape of it on a globe.
Your 'economic warfare' is myopic. China doesn't want to hurt one of its most lucrative export markets, and Europe won't pick up any significant slack, especially since they don't have the same degree of combined consumerism and lax regulation. The US and China are very much codependent, and while each has to make a political show from time to time about how the other is the bogeyman, in the end they both want the status quo.
As CanHasDIY has already said, your statement was ambiguous, especially in Slashdot's RTFA?lol environment. Ambiguity is an opening with a neon sign over it for every dime store rhetorician to make use.
If you reach adulthood without knowing and understanding the fundamental principle of a buyer's responsibility in markets, you either had the worst succession of parents, family members, teachers, friends and mentors, or you're purely and simply an idiot. It is the foundation of a individual's ability to be functional as an independent adult.
Considering some of the tales of folly I've heard, I do indeed question the quality of those in mentoring roles, but in the end the responsibility lies ultimately in those who take upon themselves the pretense of independent action to be worthy of it. (Sometimes I even wonder if I've been wrong to dismiss Aristotle's concepts of human hierarchy. And for any pedants who would use such an admission as cause to paint me as a monster, I'm being facetious. Dawg.)
Yes. And if CIG really wanted to have made a mint, they would have offered the Idris Corvettes in auctions. Considering that the manage to sell like a hundred of them for a grand each in a matter of fucking minutes, think of what ridiculous prices they might have fetched in an auction format. Plus, it would cut down on the secondary market transfers, because only a few people would likely pay more for the near peak prices of the auctions. The high rates of sale for even the ludicrously priced corvettes indicate that the market will clearly support even more ludicrous prices.
Remember, kids, "everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it." ~Publilius Syrus
This is ridiculously overblown. People are so butthurt about not being able to get in on the super special offers of Idris Corvettes or whatever, and they're jealous of people who can pay the ridiculous secondary market prices. Meanwhile, CIG itself is butthurt that they're not getting any money off the secondary market that they inadvertently created by offering limited issue ships and empowering users to transfer them. You know, because the millions upon millions of dollars that people have given them up front isn't enough.
If you create items that are scarce and enable people to trade them, you are creating a market. Period. No exceptions. You cannot then start whining about how you don't get automatic royalties every time somebody sells an item, or even stupider complain that people are selling them in the first place. Making them scarce gave them value, making them transferable created the market. Everybody get over themselves and stop whining. Oh and scams? First rule of ANY market: CAVEAT EMPTOR, BITCHES.
The demoscene has been going strong for decades, and there is a ton of rather good music out there that was made for no other reason than the authors wanted to make some music, as opposed to money. I have literally thousands of tracks that were produced and distributed for free on purpose, and I listen to them all the time.
As consumer media capture and production equipment and software continues to go up in quality and down in price, you will see even things like movies emerge without commercial intent. Yeah, there is and will be a lot of complete crap, but so what? I've seen a lot of complete crap for $15 a pop in a theater. At least I'm not wasting money.
Unions and/or licensing/regulation artificially limit and control the labor supply, artificially raising the price of the service. It is by nature inefficient at a minimum, but it usually goes beyond that to become corrupt and protect vested interests at the cost of consumer value.
People need to stop looking at "jobs" as a product, or "living wages" as an entitlement. If you really want "living wages" for every job, you're going to make a huge swath of work illegal. We've already done that, which is why youth unemployment, especially of/for minorities, has been at record levels. And it cuts people off at the knees, because now they have no entry-level foundation to build on. I'm amazed we have any economy at all at this point. (We probably wouldn't without commensurate slack being taken up by welfare and crime.)
The mass of photons is near nothing, so they don't have the boost of inertia that the ball, being a normal material object, has. It's also worth noting that the speed of light is only constant in a vacuum. Light can be made to go slower or even faster based on its medium and other conditions (temperature, etc.).
This map specifically enumerates and delineates where and how registration is required. Here's a hint: it's only in like 10% of the country where the Constitution is regularly ignored, e.g. California and New York.
Your reply seems obtuse. Right now the 'battleground' states contain a mix of both urban and rural concerns. This enfranchises a cross section of the American electorate, albeit arbitrarily. If the electoral college were eliminated, there would no longer be any rural 'battleground' areas since winning the densest population centers would be the only key to victory, effectively disenfranchising the interests of huge geographic areas across the country. An artificial cross section of American society is better than giving a voice solely based on population/density. This is something that the founders were mindful of, which is why we have a Senate. The electoral college performs a somewhat similar function. Until a better way can be found to mitigate the consequences of tipping this balance, it must necessarily be another can kicked down the road. As political cans go, it's a lot more harmless than the debt.
While I agree that there needs to be a great deal of ballot access and redistricting reform (indeed I think districts should be generated by an algorithm that is developed and overseen by a nonpartisan agency/office), it's premature to talk of eliminating the electoral college. Not because its time hasn't come, it has, but the current national context wouldn't bear it. It's currently the main institution that's balancing the power between the broad expanse of rural America and the dense urban areas. If it were eliminated, rural America would become virtually disenfranchised as Presidential candidates would only need to campaign in the largest metro areas to secure victory. Rural areas would be ignored, and consequently have no voice. Roll that on for a few years and it would be likely to precipitate another civil war.
Before your politically correct obtusery is modded too far up, might I just draw your attention to the context we're discussing within here. "Pleasure" might frequently be a euphemism for sex, but sex is not the only pleasure, and indeed while the main subject of discussion is 'erotica' which is sexual in nature, it takes the form of inanimate objects which people relate to each in their own way. The quote then is not referring to rape, but the ability to access and consume pleasurable things, literal inanimate objects.
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Ugh you are talking like Taiwan is a US territory. They are not like HK was, no US entities pick who runs Taiwan or how. (Or you could be sure the DPP would never have won an election. President Chen was well known to have had the US State Department tearing its hair out.) Taiwanese people might consider the two system possibility in three decades when they can see what China really does to HK after the noninterference period is over. I expect it to go about as well as June 4, 1989.
Whoa there KMT lapdog, just because President Chen was a bit unrestrained doesn't mean everybody in the DPP is... that's like more than a third of the country, dawg. If you paid attention to Dr. Tsai's campaign she was much more moderate on the independence issue than Chen. She only lost because the chauvinists among the moderates would rather vote for a PRC collaborator than a woman. Keep on playing by the PRC's rules and you too can end up just like the boiling frog SARs. What a future.
Welcome to the pan green vs. pan blue dichotomy. Taiwan is NOT a monolith, people!
Formosa has colonial connotations. It's remained somewhat in use because it's denotative meaning is flattering, but yeah... it's a reminder of the various European occupations.
Ask Chen Shuibian. He came nearly as close to reigniting open war with China as anybody since the Nixon era. The fact that it didn't happen suggests that Taiwan's options remain fairly open so long as they can get external cooperation (that's where China has its real leverage, leaning on potential allies of Taiwan to not sell them things or make certain political arrangements). Then again it hasn't been much of an issue since Ma Yingjeou's administration has made it a policy to fellate the PRC in secret back-room concession fests at every opportunity.
ROC technically controls part of two provinces, not only Taiwan but some minor outlying islands that are considered part of Guandong IIRC.
Regardless of the legal fantasies of the KMT, the majority of Taiwanese see themselves as independent (not just the DPP and the pan greens, but independence is only one issue, and people aren't going to ignore all of the domestic policy issues of the political spectrum just because of how they feel about independence, so there are quite a few KMT and pan blues who would consider Taiwan independent as well).
Cross straight relations and history are sometimes difficult to parse. What he said was correct, the ROC still doesn't recognize the PRC as legitimate (and vice versa) and in the immediate years after the Chinese Civil War, most of the world continued to see the ROC as the legitimate government of China in exile. After a several years it became obvious that the PRC wasn't going anywhere and world opinion about legitimacy flipped.
People act like training is some magical thing. Training is nothing more than guided experience on a schedule. Intelligent people, it may surprise you, have experiences all the time, and being intelligent they can process those experiences into a useful understanding, gasp, without formal training!
I have lots of technical certs which I know a lot of people train for with classes and whatever, but I never took classes or read any books. I had enough unscheduled, unguided real world experience to just get the certs. Training isn't magical, it doesn't represent an exclusive path to knowledge and ability, so stop patronizing people.
Cute, but unless you hold a phone at eye level with the road, which I've never seen anybody do, it is in fact completely different. There's a reason that modern military aircraft have HUDs with vital information on them, because the time it takes to move your eyes around, locate and focus on various things can be critical at high speeds. When the visual separation is trivial it can in fact increase concentration, and if you disagree, please inform the world's air forces at once on your genius discovery.
How many pieces?
Plenty of people browse at zero, numbnuts, and you're not exactly giving anybody any 'super secret inside scoop'. Anybody with a pair of brain cells to rub together could see the same thing from the outside.
The prediction of China's rise was at least as old as Napoleon Bonaparte who is reputed to have said, "Let [China] sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world." Really any historian with a better than passing knowledge of East Asia would have prognosticated the same thing, it was simply that before the 20th century few people in the West bothered to educate themselves on Chinese matters further than the shape of it on a globe.
Your 'economic warfare' is myopic. China doesn't want to hurt one of its most lucrative export markets, and Europe won't pick up any significant slack, especially since they don't have the same degree of combined consumerism and lax regulation. The US and China are very much codependent, and while each has to make a political show from time to time about how the other is the bogeyman, in the end they both want the status quo.
As CanHasDIY has already said, your statement was ambiguous, especially in Slashdot's RTFA?lol environment. Ambiguity is an opening with a neon sign over it for every dime store rhetorician to make use.
If you reach adulthood without knowing and understanding the fundamental principle of a buyer's responsibility in markets, you either had the worst succession of parents, family members, teachers, friends and mentors, or you're purely and simply an idiot. It is the foundation of a individual's ability to be functional as an independent adult.
Considering some of the tales of folly I've heard, I do indeed question the quality of those in mentoring roles, but in the end the responsibility lies ultimately in those who take upon themselves the pretense of independent action to be worthy of it. (Sometimes I even wonder if I've been wrong to dismiss Aristotle's concepts of human hierarchy. And for any pedants who would use such an admission as cause to paint me as a monster, I'm being facetious. Dawg.)
Yes. And if CIG really wanted to have made a mint, they would have offered the Idris Corvettes in auctions. Considering that the manage to sell like a hundred of them for a grand each in a matter of fucking minutes, think of what ridiculous prices they might have fetched in an auction format. Plus, it would cut down on the secondary market transfers, because only a few people would likely pay more for the near peak prices of the auctions. The high rates of sale for even the ludicrously priced corvettes indicate that the market will clearly support even more ludicrous prices.
Remember, kids, "everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it." ~Publilius Syrus
Disclaimer: I am a backer of Star Citizen.
This is ridiculously overblown. People are so butthurt about not being able to get in on the super special offers of Idris Corvettes or whatever, and they're jealous of people who can pay the ridiculous secondary market prices. Meanwhile, CIG itself is butthurt that they're not getting any money off the secondary market that they inadvertently created by offering limited issue ships and empowering users to transfer them. You know, because the millions upon millions of dollars that people have given them up front isn't enough.
If you create items that are scarce and enable people to trade them, you are creating a market. Period. No exceptions. You cannot then start whining about how you don't get automatic royalties every time somebody sells an item, or even stupider complain that people are selling them in the first place. Making them scarce gave them value, making them transferable created the market. Everybody get over themselves and stop whining. Oh and scams? First rule of ANY market: CAVEAT EMPTOR, BITCHES.
The demoscene has been going strong for decades, and there is a ton of rather good music out there that was made for no other reason than the authors wanted to make some music, as opposed to money. I have literally thousands of tracks that were produced and distributed for free on purpose, and I listen to them all the time.
As consumer media capture and production equipment and software continues to go up in quality and down in price, you will see even things like movies emerge without commercial intent. Yeah, there is and will be a lot of complete crap, but so what? I've seen a lot of complete crap for $15 a pop in a theater. At least I'm not wasting money.
Unions and/or licensing/regulation artificially limit and control the labor supply, artificially raising the price of the service. It is by nature inefficient at a minimum, but it usually goes beyond that to become corrupt and protect vested interests at the cost of consumer value.
People need to stop looking at "jobs" as a product, or "living wages" as an entitlement. If you really want "living wages" for every job, you're going to make a huge swath of work illegal. We've already done that, which is why youth unemployment, especially of/for minorities, has been at record levels. And it cuts people off at the knees, because now they have no entry-level foundation to build on. I'm amazed we have any economy at all at this point. (We probably wouldn't without commensurate slack being taken up by welfare and crime.)
Clearly you have a broad experience for frame of reference in this matter from which to draw comparisons?
The mass of photons is near nothing, so they don't have the boost of inertia that the ball, being a normal material object, has. It's also worth noting that the speed of light is only constant in a vacuum. Light can be made to go slower or even faster based on its medium and other conditions (temperature, etc.).
This map specifically enumerates and delineates where and how registration is required. Here's a hint: it's only in like 10% of the country where the Constitution is regularly ignored, e.g. California and New York.
Your reply seems obtuse. Right now the 'battleground' states contain a mix of both urban and rural concerns. This enfranchises a cross section of the American electorate, albeit arbitrarily. If the electoral college were eliminated, there would no longer be any rural 'battleground' areas since winning the densest population centers would be the only key to victory, effectively disenfranchising the interests of huge geographic areas across the country. An artificial cross section of American society is better than giving a voice solely based on population/density. This is something that the founders were mindful of, which is why we have a Senate. The electoral college performs a somewhat similar function. Until a better way can be found to mitigate the consequences of tipping this balance, it must necessarily be another can kicked down the road. As political cans go, it's a lot more harmless than the debt.
While I agree that there needs to be a great deal of ballot access and redistricting reform (indeed I think districts should be generated by an algorithm that is developed and overseen by a nonpartisan agency/office), it's premature to talk of eliminating the electoral college. Not because its time hasn't come, it has, but the current national context wouldn't bear it. It's currently the main institution that's balancing the power between the broad expanse of rural America and the dense urban areas. If it were eliminated, rural America would become virtually disenfranchised as Presidential candidates would only need to campaign in the largest metro areas to secure victory. Rural areas would be ignored, and consequently have no voice. Roll that on for a few years and it would be likely to precipitate another civil war.
Before your politically correct obtusery is modded too far up, might I just draw your attention to the context we're discussing within here. "Pleasure" might frequently be a euphemism for sex, but sex is not the only pleasure, and indeed while the main subject of discussion is 'erotica' which is sexual in nature, it takes the form of inanimate objects which people relate to each in their own way. The quote then is not referring to rape, but the ability to access and consume pleasurable things, literal inanimate objects.