For all the hate the US gets I still can't recall a single nation having as much power (and let's be fair, compare nations to peers of the time) and wielding it so fairly. Sure, you can bitch about the current Iraq war, and some support and aid for some overthrows you might now agree with. Boo hoo! It's all-n-all pretty damn good. And still trying to get better.
"Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can. And it is not as if we were the first to make this law, or to act upon it when made: we found it existing before us, and shall leave it to exist for ever after us; all we do is to make use of it, knowing that you and everybody else, having the same power as we have, would do the same as we do." - Thucydides, the Melian Dialog.
I don't disagree that the US is the best hegemon the world's ever seen, but that argument is just about the oldest justification of imperialism there is, and I don't think it helps.
"governator" isn't a real word either, and "gubernator" also makes the same word play. The adjective "gubernatorial" retains the original Latin spelling.
I am from Seattle, living on Southern California now, and I can't wait to get back to a place where, if the sun isn't in the process of slowly roasting you, there are actual fucking fires doing the job.
Not to mention, the beer here sucks.
I'm a 3rd generation Seattle native; I've been bred to the rain. SAD doesn't phase me. Wanna trade places?
Clerics in the Ottoman Empire, who got paid for handmade copies of the Koran, objected when the printing press was introduced there. They kept wide-spread printing out of the East for half a century, and kept it heavily controlled after that.
I know historicizing myth isn't popular, considering that Homer does preserve details of Mycenaean life he couldn't possibly have known, and that Thucydides, in his Archeology, says that Minos created the first navy and that allowed states on the coast to flourish, rejecting out of hand the possibility that some memory of the Minoans survives seems rash.
As for Plato's myths, you have to wonder to what extent he's inventing myths, and to what extent he's reporting myths. There's probably a philological method for sorting that out; I don't know it.
will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots.
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How much damage can a radar-equipped bat do?
I used to play MechWarrior all time time growing up! I haven't got so much enjoyment from a series for
Everyone knows nitrogen is here because of the Holy Sauce dripped from His Noodly Appendage.
For all the hate the US gets I still can't recall a single nation having as much power (and let's be fair, compare nations to peers of the time) and wielding it so fairly. Sure, you can bitch about the current Iraq war, and some support and aid for some overthrows you might now agree with. Boo hoo! It's all-n-all pretty damn good. And still trying to get better.
"Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can. And it is not as if we were the first to make this law, or to act upon it when made: we found it existing before us, and shall leave it to exist for ever after us; all we do is to make use of it, knowing that you and everybody else, having the same power as we have, would do the same as we do." - Thucydides, the Melian Dialog. I don't disagree that the US is the best hegemon the world's ever seen, but that argument is just about the oldest justification of imperialism there is, and I don't think it helps.
"governator" isn't a real word either, and "gubernator" also makes the same word play. The adjective "gubernatorial" retains the original Latin spelling.
Bike rack on the bus. I haven't seen a bus without a bike rack for a long time. Sometimes there's trouble because the bus can only support 2-3 bikes.
Gandalf for President!
I am from Seattle, living on Southern California now, and I can't wait to get back to a place where, if the sun isn't in the process of slowly roasting you, there are actual fucking fires doing the job. Not to mention, the beer here sucks. I'm a 3rd generation Seattle native; I've been bred to the rain. SAD doesn't phase me. Wanna trade places?
Clerics in the Ottoman Empire, who got paid for handmade copies of the Koran, objected when the printing press was introduced there. They kept wide-spread printing out of the East for half a century, and kept it heavily controlled after that.
Here's to us! Who's like us? Damn Few. And they're all dead.
They can stick the dwarfish sword up their asses. Real glowing swords are elvish!
I know historicizing myth isn't popular, considering that Homer does preserve details of Mycenaean life he couldn't possibly have known, and that Thucydides, in his Archeology, says that Minos created the first navy and that allowed states on the coast to flourish, rejecting out of hand the possibility that some memory of the Minoans survives seems rash. As for Plato's myths, you have to wonder to what extent he's inventing myths, and to what extent he's reporting myths. There's probably a philological method for sorting that out; I don't know it.
I wish I had mod points for you. Considering the subsequent Mycenaean collapse, it's amazing any memory of the Minoans made it to Plato.
The study's written in Dutch. If it didn't have typos, it'd be in German.
will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots.