Since you seem to have trouble connecting, then just think of those millions of "shitty" blogs as an incredible historical resource.
What would we give to get semi-daily commentary about personal problems and day-to-day events from the 1800s? (Answer: a lot. A LOT)
People forget that big events are pretty well documented in history, but we loose the ephemera all too easily. Personal blogs are ephemera to the extreme.
How do you know he wasn't Tibetian? Jumping to conclusions a tad?
BTW, it sounds like your understanding of Tibetian history is flawed by propaganda, take a course perhaps?
Ever been to Tibet? Know anyone from Tibet? Know anyone who's family lived in Tibet during the 60s and 70s (up to the present day even)?
If so then you'd know that many Tibetians have a picture of the Dali (Dalai) Lama in a revered spot...and a picture of Mao next to him. Why? "Because the Lama gives me religion, and Mao gave me land."
Remember to take the Free Tibet stuff with some salt. A lot of their movement is about anti-modernism is Tibet so we can keep it "pure" as a tourist attraction. "What's that noble Tibetian peasant, you want a coke? No no, that will taint your sacred history. Only I may have a coke, just drink your yak butter tea and thank us for trying to preserve your subsistence livestyle for generations to come. Now where can I get some of your quaint prayer beads?"
American companies have never stood for freedom or even democracy.
Read about the history of the United Fruit Corporation in Central America; they actually deposed a democratic government and installed a sympathetic dictator!
"You guys are Commies!? Then why do I see rudimentary free markets?" -- Homer
The CCP has allowed open capitalists to join. My Chinese teacher (who was a former truck driver in Tibet in the 60s and 70s, cool guy) explained it like this:
The CCP new guard are in a car leading the old CCP members following in another. Up ahead there is a fork with one side labeled Communism (Maoism actually) and the other labeled Capitalism. After a brief debate the new guard CCP decides to signal a turn to Communism, but turn towards Capitalism.
No, he's just mocking the image of the immature kid who somehow thinks he's made some sort of spiritual connection with China just because he got a Chinese symbol tatooed on his leg.
And I'm mocking his quick and casual dismissal of Chinese culture and language as "gay" (twice). The poster says that his tattoos "mean" something to him and implies that the gay Chinese "symbol" doesn't. Who knows why the kid has a character on his leg? For all he knows he could get just as much meaning from his Chinese character as the poster gets from his "traditional" tattoo which would apparently have been acceptable.
A "gay" Chinese symbol? WTF mate? What's the Chinese character for gay? Or just bcause he's white then Chinese is forbidden to him? I'd like to get a four character Chinese phrase tattooed on my right shoulder blade, does that mean that you should feel sorry for my lame gayness?
It seems like you have a weird beef with China and India related to outsourcing. And with the guy that has the tattoo. I notice that you use the past tense when referring to this guy. Doing some numerical calculations I surmise that your job was outsourced to China and he's still there, perhaps promoted to upper management?
You, ah, might want to retake some critical reading courses or something. His post as a whole didn't say anything like you argue against. Even the quote you pulled to back up your argument doesn't.
He does correctly point out that the elitist bullshit is exactly that, but he doesn't say that there is only ONE TRUE OS.
There are a ton of ways to do this. I'm going to take my VHS tapes of the THX Star Wars to the local university library and use their VHS -> DVD dubber (a practice that is not so discretely encouraged).
When did Magician's Nephew ever come last? In our original set it's the second book in the series.
But anyhoo, C.S. Lewis himself was behind the new ordering. Read his Letters to Children and he gives the new ordering in reply to a child's question on the best order to read the books.
So while you and I prefer the original ordering, Lewis didn't.
Babylon 5 is awesome and I love it, but it isn't exactly nonlinear.
Firefly might have been a second (it was certainly shaping up to be), but it's hard to tell from just 14 episodes. And even the potential full trilogy of movies will only give us half that time. Damn shame.
but is ANY child of that age ready for something like that?
Yes. Not all children but most children would be perfectly fine with it.
I remember loving the melting face scene from Indiana Jones as a youngster as well as a bunch of other gory scenes from then popular movies (oh, like the troll peeling its own skin off and turning into a dragon in Willow). But then I also liked a lot of non-gory stuff, like Anne of Green Gables at the other end of the spectrum. As far as I know I'm not terribly traumatized. I do work in a library though, does that mean something?
A bare OS version of Linux still has more apps then $1000 worth of windows and software addons.
No, that's a bare Linux distribution. The bare OS for Linux is the kernel, GNU tools, and the command line. Think Gentoo before compiling X or the window manager.
Microsoft+Dell will still be big and powerful, but every sale they make puts money into Intel's pocket to help Intel+Apple compete against both of them.
ha ha!
Wow. That is one of the most insightful comments I've ever read on slashdot. Do you run a blog?
Sorry dude, but like "irregardless" (Arg) the use of the word nauseous to indicate nauseated is being dictated by common usage. Dictionaries reflect speech, not the other way around. If something is said "incorrectly" by enough people for enough time, then the rules change.:-/
Maybe you should read the 9/11 Commission's report.
Shortpoint: Iraq had no ties to Al-Qaeda, Bin Laden considered Saddam an foe rather than a friend.
The key phrase there is had no ties. Al-Qaeda seems pretty well integrated into Iraq now. Go us, I feel safer already. While Iraq is serving as a kind of lightning rod for terrorist activities, how long can it last?
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Since you seem to have trouble connecting, then just think of those millions of "shitty" blogs as an incredible historical resource.
What would we give to get semi-daily commentary about personal problems and day-to-day events from the 1800s? (Answer: a lot. A LOT)
People forget that big events are pretty well documented in history, but we loose the ephemera all too easily. Personal blogs are ephemera to the extreme.
While you're at it, I think a general course on the history of China in the 20th century is in order.
How do you know he wasn't Tibetian? Jumping to conclusions a tad?
BTW, it sounds like your understanding of Tibetian history is flawed by propaganda, take a course perhaps?
Ever been to Tibet? Know anyone from Tibet? Know anyone who's family lived in Tibet during the 60s and 70s (up to the present day even)?
If so then you'd know that many Tibetians have a picture of the Dali (Dalai) Lama in a revered spot...and a picture of Mao next to him. Why? "Because the Lama gives me religion, and Mao gave me land."
Remember to take the Free Tibet stuff with some salt. A lot of their movement is about anti-modernism is Tibet so we can keep it "pure" as a tourist attraction. "What's that noble Tibetian peasant, you want a coke? No no, that will taint your sacred history. Only I may have a coke, just drink your yak butter tea and thank us for trying to preserve your subsistence livestyle for generations to come. Now where can I get some of your quaint prayer beads?"
American companies have never stood for freedom or even democracy.
Read about the history of the United Fruit Corporation in Central America; they actually deposed a democratic government and installed a sympathetic dictator!
"You guys are Commies!? Then why do I see rudimentary free markets?" -- Homer
The CCP has allowed open capitalists to join. My Chinese teacher (who was a former truck driver in Tibet in the 60s and 70s, cool guy) explained it like this:
The CCP new guard are in a car leading the old CCP members following in another. Up ahead there is a fork with one side labeled Communism (Maoism actually) and the other labeled Capitalism. After a brief debate the new guard CCP decides to signal a turn to Communism, but turn towards Capitalism.
Pipe dream. Like the Red Hat Center (now the Center for the Public Domain) for Mr. Bob Young.
You are comparing two big budget American motion pictures (Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin) to a Japanese WWF tv show (Dragonball Z)?
At least compare equally. Pit "Spirited Away" or "Princess Mononoke" vs the two from Disney. Even the aging "Ghost in the Shell" fares well.
No, he's just mocking the image of the immature kid who somehow thinks he's made some sort of spiritual connection with China just because he got a Chinese symbol tatooed on his leg.
And I'm mocking his quick and casual dismissal of Chinese culture and language as "gay" (twice). The poster says that his tattoos "mean" something to him and implies that the gay Chinese "symbol" doesn't. Who knows why the kid has a character on his leg? For all he knows he could get just as much meaning from his Chinese character as the poster gets from his "traditional" tattoo which would apparently have been acceptable.
A "gay" Chinese symbol? WTF mate? What's the Chinese character for gay? Or just bcause he's white then Chinese is forbidden to him? I'd like to get a four character Chinese phrase tattooed on my right shoulder blade, does that mean that you should feel sorry for my lame gayness?
It seems like you have a weird beef with China and India related to outsourcing. And with the guy that has the tattoo. I notice that you use the past tense when referring to this guy. Doing some numerical calculations I surmise that your job was outsourced to China and he's still there, perhaps promoted to upper management?
You, ah, might want to retake some critical reading courses or something. His post as a whole didn't say anything like you argue against. Even the quote you pulled to back up your argument doesn't.
He does correctly point out that the elitist bullshit is exactly that, but he doesn't say that there is only ONE TRUE OS.
Maybe his comments just hit too close to home?
I laughed too. Sorry but the acting was horrible and scene was very silly.
There are a ton of ways to do this. I'm going to take my VHS tapes of the THX Star Wars to the local university library and use their VHS -> DVD dubber (a practice that is not so discretely encouraged).
When did Magician's Nephew ever come last? In our original set it's the second book in the series.
But anyhoo, C.S. Lewis himself was behind the new ordering. Read his Letters to Children and he gives the new ordering in reply to a child's question on the best order to read the books.
So while you and I prefer the original ordering, Lewis didn't.
Babylon 5 is awesome and I love it, but it isn't exactly nonlinear.
Firefly might have been a second (it was certainly shaping up to be), but it's hard to tell from just 14 episodes. And even the potential full trilogy of movies will only give us half that time. Damn shame.
I always liked that line. And the delivery.
Maybe I saw them when I was too young and impressionable. (note parallel thread)
O_O
My daughter is 13 and I almost covered her eyes during that scene. If it went on a split-second longer, I would have.
You aren't serious.
And I consider myself pretty liberal about what I let her watch.
You can't be serious.
but is ANY child of that age ready for something like that?
Yes. Not all children but most children would be perfectly fine with it.
I remember loving the melting face scene from Indiana Jones as a youngster as well as a bunch of other gory scenes from then popular movies (oh, like the troll peeling its own skin off and turning into a dragon in Willow). But then I also liked a lot of non-gory stuff, like Anne of Green Gables at the other end of the spectrum. As far as I know I'm not terribly traumatized. I do work in a library though, does that mean something?
Yeah, Lucas really knows how to deaden the hell out of his talented actors' performances. He's a genius that way.
No. You attempt to refute his valid points. Please.
GNU tools.
A bare OS version of Linux still has more apps then $1000 worth of windows and software addons.
No, that's a bare Linux distribution. The bare OS for Linux is the kernel, GNU tools, and the command line. Think Gentoo before compiling X or the window manager.
Pffft. Halo is overrated. The real game that XBox has going for it is Ninja Gaiden.
In the end:
Microsoft+Dell will still be big and powerful, but every sale they make puts money into Intel's pocket to help Intel+Apple compete against both of them.
ha ha!
Wow. That is one of the most insightful comments I've ever read on slashdot. Do you run a blog?
Sorry dude, but like "irregardless" (Arg) the use of the word nauseous to indicate nauseated is being dictated by common usage. Dictionaries reflect speech, not the other way around. If something is said "incorrectly" by enough people for enough time, then the rules change. :-/
See the process in action.
So...wow.
Maybe you should read the 9/11 Commission's report.
Shortpoint: Iraq had no ties to Al-Qaeda, Bin Laden considered Saddam an foe rather than a friend.
The key phrase there is had no ties. Al-Qaeda seems pretty well integrated into Iraq now. Go us, I feel safer already. While Iraq is serving as a kind of lightning rod for terrorist activities, how long can it last?