While I know you were shooting for funny (and succeeded), you have also provided an excellent and concise summary of almost the entire range of conspiracy theorists. You missed out a few important bits though - the Rosicrucians, The Rothschild family, The Jews and the lizard shape shifters...
There's plenty of other information out there, such as the fact that North Korea doesn't have a submarine capable of evading South Korean sonar arrays. There's also lots in Korean, but that doesn't help you.
True, I've never suffered at the hands of Kim Jeong Il. My wife's grandfather was executed due to being accused of communism. The accusation stuck with my father-in-law which made it extremely difficult for him to pass the civil service examination.
I have access to all the information an average Korean does, and more as I have access to information in English, which the average Korean does not. The Korean public is clearly unhappy with the way in which the current ruling party dealt with the sinking of the Cheonan, as evidenced by the latest regional elections. They are worried that the aggressive stance will cause a war. I believe I've explained in other posts what the sunshine policy accomplished as compared with sanctions. The North Korean government is not comprised of madmen or insane lunatics. They all know what would happen if they provoked a war, and China is much more leery of backing the North. Dialogue is in the best interests of all players in the region, and they all know that. They key is getting both sides to come to an agreement for the energy issue in North Korea, and then having both sides stick to the agreement.
Oh and I don't have numbers off-hand to back me up, but I would venture that more than 50% of the current South Korean population has never suffered at the hands of North Korea either.
To bring a little bit of logic into a ridiculous scenario (the whole thing you understand, not our particular conversation), if the RIAA can pay 16,000,000 for recovery of 391,000 - i don't think a simple lawsuit is gonna frighten them one bit.
The reason a peace treaty was never signed was because of South Korean obstinance. We suspect that North Korea has nuclear weapons - all we have to go on is one in country test with no confirmation and the North Korean propaganda.
The sunshine policy, while flawed, produced much better effects than sanctions and threats.
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As a former ESL teacher in Seoul who also happens to be a Canadian, that particular group is using the tired rhetoric of minority bashing to protect jobs. It's mostly a group of Korean ESL teachers who want to drag ESL practices in South Korea back to the stone age of rote learning and memorization. I should mention here that the vast majority of Korean ESL teachers I worked with were excellent co-workers and very professional in their work ethics (which is more than can be said for many of the businessmen that I taught). The cowboy days of teaching ESL in South Korea are pretty much done and gone, which is good for the industry. The South Korean Ministry of Education needs to get their act together and stop moving the goalposts for foreign teachers though, otherwise all the progress that has been made in the ESL sector will fall by the wayside, and Konglish will rear its ugly head once more.
I know I shouldn't reply to ACs, especially ACs who are most likely fundamentalist Christians, but the Buddha lived approximately 500 years before Jesus.
Because you could never learn something from watching professionals play. No sir. Or derive enjoyment from watching a play that has been well-executed. Uh-oh: the jocks are posting on slashdot. What next, they start coding in your favorite language? The horror, the horror.
It's worth noting here that North Korea "might" have an atomic bomb, we don't know who ordered the torpedo firing or if it was even an accident and the missiles over Japan are no worse than the "war games" the US and South Kore conduct right off the border of North Korea. Additionally, all three of those events occurred after the sunshine policy had been rendered useless by the efforts of the US state department, or given up by the arch-conservative South Korean government under Lee Myeong-Bak. Whereas during times of engagement, North Korea gave up their old nuclear reactors and agreed to monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency in exchange for development of two modern Light-Water Reactors (which were never developed in no small part thanks to the effort of the US State department), agreed to the development of the Kaesong special economic zone, partnered with South Korean rail companies to link the two countries by rail, agreed to many family reunions and participated in a lot of very positive dialogue. After Bush's "axis of evil" speech, combined with the attack on Iraq (who had done nothing to warrant US invasion), well, the north's leaders are neither crazy nor stupid. Isolation does nothing to hinder the leadership of North Korea, they simply divert more resources away from the general population to the military (more guns than butter, as it were). War is not an option, the loss of life in Seoul and Tokyo would make Iraq look like a weekend skirmish. But yes, keep rattling those sabres. It's worked so well in winning the hearts and minds of, well, everybody.
"the horror of most Chinese history"? You mean the centuries when China had more trade, more wealth and more political power than the West? Jeez, 100 years of relative Western prosperity does not invalidate most of Chinese history.
PRC might desire absorption, but Taiwanese people are more and more seeing themselves as being Taiwanese first and Chinese second. I think if you asked the 20-30 generation of Taiwan, you might get a very different response to wanting reunification.
How could anyone post that kind of unmitigated trash with a straight face? The rest of the world is not full of dragons, and dying to benefit ones family has never been a call that rational individuals would make.
You can install rockbox, but you can't figure out the iTunes interface? Oh and btw to create a selection of songs to sync in iTunes, you.....wait for it....select the songs you want to sync and then drag them onto the iPod icon on in the iTunes sidebar.
Non-alcoholic beer goes through processes at the end to remove alcohol which generally leaves the beer with a higher water content. This chemical process dramatically alters the taste from a real beer. There are many different types of beer, such as fruit beers, wheat beers, IPAs etc. which have a variety of flavours and tastes, as well as a various levels of alcohol content. You don't happen to like the beers that you've tried, and that's fair enough. Not everyone has the same taste as you, and this is a good thing, because if everyone was the same the world would be a very boring place indeed. Personally I love real ales, stouts and dessert beers, while lagers are good for whetting one's thirst on a hot hot day. It wasn't an acquired taste any more than any other food or drink is.
I'm just curious how a guitarist is supposed to control this when his hands are going to be busy playing the guitar? I like the iPod as a synth/MIDI controller, but it doesn't make any sense to emulate pedals with it. Unless you're going to be stepping on the thing during a show?
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not the same swastika, check out the direction the arms are facing and the angle of the symbol itself.
I think we overestimate the role of pop music and crappy movies in our happiness. Lots of people are living without a TV.
In America? Nielsen reports that 99% of American households have at least one TV. http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Factsheets/factvchip.html
Culture, be it low or high, plays a large role in keeping the population of nations happy.
While I know you were shooting for funny (and succeeded), you have also provided an excellent and concise summary of almost the entire range of conspiracy theorists.
You missed out a few important bits though - the Rosicrucians, The Rothschild family, The Jews and the lizard shape shifters...
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100708/full/news.2010.343.html
There's plenty of other information out there, such as the fact that North Korea doesn't have a submarine capable of evading South Korean sonar arrays.
There's also lots in Korean, but that doesn't help you.
No, it equals a friend. Think you can pull that one off?
True, I've never suffered at the hands of Kim Jeong Il. My wife's grandfather was executed due to being accused of communism. The accusation stuck with my father-in-law which made it extremely difficult for him to pass the civil service examination.
I have access to all the information an average Korean does, and more as I have access to information in English, which the average Korean does not. The Korean public is clearly unhappy with the way in which the current ruling party dealt with the sinking of the Cheonan, as evidenced by the latest regional elections. They are worried that the aggressive stance will cause a war.
I believe I've explained in other posts what the sunshine policy accomplished as compared with sanctions. The North Korean government is not comprised of madmen or insane lunatics. They all know what would happen if they provoked a war, and China is much more leery of backing the North. Dialogue is in the best interests of all players in the region, and they all know that. They key is getting both sides to come to an agreement for the energy issue in North Korea, and then having both sides stick to the agreement.
Oh and I don't have numbers off-hand to back me up, but I would venture that more than 50% of the current South Korean population has never suffered at the hands of North Korea either.
To bring a little bit of logic into a ridiculous scenario (the whole thing you understand, not our particular conversation), if the RIAA can pay 16,000,000 for recovery of 391,000 - i don't think a simple lawsuit is gonna frighten them one bit.
And give more lawyers more money?
The reason a peace treaty was never signed was because of South Korean obstinance.
We suspect that North Korea has nuclear weapons - all we have to go on is one in country test with no confirmation and the North Korean propaganda.
The sunshine policy, while flawed, produced much better effects than sanctions and threats.
As a former ESL teacher in Seoul who also happens to be a Canadian, that particular group is using the tired rhetoric of minority bashing to protect jobs. It's mostly a group of Korean ESL teachers who want to drag ESL practices in South Korea back to the stone age of rote learning and memorization. I should mention here that the vast majority of Korean ESL teachers I worked with were excellent co-workers and very professional in their work ethics (which is more than can be said for many of the businessmen that I taught).
The cowboy days of teaching ESL in South Korea are pretty much done and gone, which is good for the industry. The South Korean Ministry of Education needs to get their act together and stop moving the goalposts for foreign teachers though, otherwise all the progress that has been made in the ESL sector will fall by the wayside, and Konglish will rear its ugly head once more.
I know I shouldn't reply to ACs, especially ACs who are most likely fundamentalist Christians, but the Buddha lived approximately 500 years before Jesus.
how many people out there actually have the hardware to enjoy these videos?
Well, I can think of at least two - Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
Will ICANN accept both simplified and traditional Chinese scripts?
It's sad but true, the number of intelligent comments on YouTube is infinitesimal.
You wait until the end of the season to be able to purchase that, just like for every other show.
Because you could never learn something from watching professionals play. No sir. Or derive enjoyment from watching a play that has been well-executed.
Uh-oh: the jocks are posting on slashdot. What next, they start coding in your favorite language?
The horror, the horror.
It's worth noting here that North Korea "might" have an atomic bomb, we don't know who ordered the torpedo firing or if it was even an accident and the missiles over Japan are no worse than the "war games" the US and South Kore conduct right off the border of North Korea.
Additionally, all three of those events occurred after the sunshine policy had been rendered useless by the efforts of the US state department, or given up by the arch-conservative South Korean government under Lee Myeong-Bak. Whereas during times of engagement, North Korea gave up their old nuclear reactors and agreed to monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency in exchange for development of two modern Light-Water Reactors (which were never developed in no small part thanks to the effort of the US State department), agreed to the development of the Kaesong special economic zone, partnered with South Korean rail companies to link the two countries by rail, agreed to many family reunions and participated in a lot of very positive dialogue.
After Bush's "axis of evil" speech, combined with the attack on Iraq (who had done nothing to warrant US invasion), well, the north's leaders are neither crazy nor stupid.
Isolation does nothing to hinder the leadership of North Korea, they simply divert more resources away from the general population to the military (more guns than butter, as it were).
War is not an option, the loss of life in Seoul and Tokyo would make Iraq look like a weekend skirmish.
But yes, keep rattling those sabres. It's worked so well in winning the hearts and minds of, well, everybody.
"the horror of most Chinese history"? You mean the centuries when China had more trade, more wealth and more political power than the West? Jeez, 100 years of relative Western prosperity does not invalidate most of Chinese history.
The GP's use of the term "good call" assumes a certain amount of rational thinking involved, i.e. the ability to judge good from bad.
PRC might desire absorption, but Taiwanese people are more and more seeing themselves as being Taiwanese first and Chinese second. I think if you asked the 20-30 generation of Taiwan, you might get a very different response to wanting reunification.
How could anyone post that kind of unmitigated trash with a straight face? The rest of the world is not full of dragons, and dying to benefit ones family has never been a call that rational individuals would make.
You can install rockbox, but you can't figure out the iTunes interface? Oh and btw to create a selection of songs to sync in iTunes, you.....wait for it....select the songs you want to sync and then drag them onto the iPod icon on in the iTunes sidebar.
Non-alcoholic beer goes through processes at the end to remove alcohol which generally leaves the beer with a higher water content. This chemical process dramatically alters the taste from a real beer.
There are many different types of beer, such as fruit beers, wheat beers, IPAs etc. which have a variety of flavours and tastes, as well as a various levels of alcohol content. You don't happen to like the beers that you've tried, and that's fair enough. Not everyone has the same taste as you, and this is a good thing, because if everyone was the same the world would be a very boring place indeed.
Personally I love real ales, stouts and dessert beers, while lagers are good for whetting one's thirst on a hot hot day. It wasn't an acquired taste any more than any other food or drink is.
I went from happy to thrilled at this announcement: http://www.ikmultimedia.com/teaser_20100506.php
I'm just curious how a guitarist is supposed to control this when his hands are going to be busy playing the guitar? I like the iPod as a synth/MIDI controller, but it doesn't make any sense to emulate pedals with it. Unless you're going to be stepping on the thing during a show?
Thanks for the recommendation, that looks like it could fill the need quite nicely.