This doesn't pass the laugh test. If they really cared about terrorist financing, they'd nail down the people who placed all the puts on UAL before 9/11, instead of preventing workers from sending money home, and preventing any contributions to refugee relief. Hell, the head of the ISI, who was in D.C. meeting with Porter Goss on 9/11, wired Mohammed Atta 100,000 $US in August that year. The whole business stinks from the top, not the bottom.
If my employee discovered that I was unknowingly violating the law, and thus placing the business at risk, but did not promptly inform me, I would fire that person on the spot.
I'm pretty sure it would be dead-easy to hire USians to go live in the Green and Pleasant Land. By the millions. As a US company, it should be straight-forward to arrange residence permits.
The real problem here is games that bore you to death. But sometimes, you know that the entertainment payback, such as a change in social relations, or a cluster of more interesting quests, will make it worth the time or money to advance. Why should the vendor of a gaming experience have to right or the desire to determine where I chose to optimize the time vs. money tradeoff?
Perhaps the concern is motivated by a competitive imbalance favoring the wealthy. I think you'll need to get over this personal psychological issue, if you want to have an enjoyable life, either in the virtual world, or in the real world.
Release it pseudonymously, or have someone front for you, like Jon Lech Johannsen (sp?) fronts for MoRE. I'd be happy to act as an anonymizing layer between you and your release agent, if you wish.
An a law isn't a law, if it has already been found to be unconstitutional. There is a body of SC precedent that holds that (1) anonymity is a protected free speech right, and (2) the first amendment applies to the states as well as the federal government. In this case, 1+2 = 3: Any such state law is prima facie unconsitutional.
The premise that not taking joy in mass murder makes you a caricature is questionable. I don't think so. You needn't kowtow to the brownshirts just because the voices of the genocidal class are strident and loud.
Much worse atrocities? The Soviet Union is history, friend. There's nobody who can compete with the U.S. for magnitude of evil in this millenium. Some pockets of abject tyranny exist, but their scale is small. There's only one evil empire today, and you're in it.
China? China hasn't spread nuclear waste over the cradle of civilization. China hasn't invaded non-beligerent nations in decades, and hasn't killed a quarter of a million people in another country in order to keep them from forming a government for their homeland. I don't know what the stats are on forced abortions in China, though. Depending on your value system, this might loom large in any comparison.
What you describe is not to Wikipedia's credit, but to its detriment. It consists of an archipelago of cliques of mutually supportive liars, who have gained control over a bit of the social neurosphere, and defend it against all comers. Wikipedia is supremely excellent, when considering only the non-controversial subset of purely factual articles, but it is insanely pernicious in its ability to propagandize the delusions of deeply invested fanatics with a modicum of organizational skill.
the federal reserve system requires the formation of new debt in order to increse the money supply. dollars are issued by a private corporation to the feral government of the us in exchange for bonded interest bearing securities. dollars are issued to national banks by the federal reserve banks in the form of loans at an interest rate established by the board of directors at the open market meetings. there are no other sources of dollars. thus, it is in fact impossible to pay off the national debt, considered as the sum of the obligations of the federal government and the national banks. the debt can only increase, draining the wealth of the nation into the hands of the directors of the federal reserve banks.
the nominal national debt is the sum of the secured obligations of the national treasury, which principally takes the form of treasury bonds. this debt can, theoretically, be repaid, if the treasury were to generate enough income. doing so would essentially destroy the national economy, unless it were acheived by external acquisition, such as invasion of a large oil field, or capture of a metal-rich asteroid.
but the notion of 20T$ of precious metals as a lump sum, with instantaneous presence, is incoherent. it would not be possible to sell it, and if it were, the strike price would be a tiny fraction of that. nonetheless, any nation or enterprise which can capture such a prize could dominate the global economy for decades.
Yes, I am beginning to understand now. Since advocates of Intelligent Design use empirical facts and valid deduction to support their claims, therefore empirical facts and valid deduction are disreputable. I'm very sorry that I spoke out of turn. I wouldn't want to be percieved as being a supporter of a politically incorrect viewpoint, after all.
Actually, an overwhelming majority of the Iraqis are opposed to the U.S. occupation. But they didn't get to vote on *that*. I rather do believe, from talking to people in Iraq, that a majority would vote for Sadaam Hussein right now, if there were a democracy there, instead of a puppet client state under foreign military occupation.
Several members of the German high command were hung by the neck until dead for the crime of waging a war of aggression. They claimed they did it to defend the German victims of tyrannical oppression in Poland, but everyone knew it was just empire-building.
Patriotism is a willingness to sacrifice in order to preserve and defend your people group and way of life, and it is a virtue as such.
No, the U.S. is not fighting any war against terrorists. It invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, which are countries, and thus waged war on those countries, and continues to occupy them. People who fight against that are called patriots, not terrorists. Arguably, since the U.S. has global hegemony for the moment, any combat operations conducted by the U.S. are actually suppressions of popular insurrections against their empire.
> I'm just standing up and telling the tinfoil weirdos to get back in their (faraday) cages and let the rational people have a rational debate that will actually enhance people's understanding of the situation.
You keep using that word, "rational". I do not think it means what you think it means. It does not mean attempting to pre-empt factual, reasoned, discussion by name-calling and sneering mockery, for example.
The Trotskyite red-diapers who are currently using our armed forces as a cheap toy and conducting the most immense transfer of wealth in history, from the US to Europe, are disqualified from that category.
Americans at large have a general understanding that the purpose of the government is to aggregate power and wealth to those who control the government, and that the government is not under the control of the electorate, but rather of a dynamic complex of involved individuals, affiliated by familial, cultural and economic ties, primarily representing the controlling interests and authorities in the intelligence community, the military-industrial complex, the mass-media and the banking system, who are collectively able to determine the acceptable range of public discourse and consequently the slate of electable candidates.
Americans hope against hope that the inherent complexity of the system will create adequate checks and balances to prevent it from killing outright they themselves and their closest friends and family members, but they know it's a crapshoot, so they try not to get involved in the struggle for power that so occupies the minds of evil men. Ultimately, justice is not of interest to Americans unless it is in personal application, as a defense against abusive power. The American ideology prefers a robust raw machiavellian power to an effette idealism. Indeed, it considers religion an opiate, an escape from or a hedge against the agonies of the meat-grinding machine of the society in which they live, rather than a livable set of principles to be applied in that social context.
While that may be the design intent of PDF, it is not the typical use. End users just want to see the content, and don't care about the presentation, as long as it is *usable*. With and SVG thrown in, Unipage should be superior to PDF for most purely electronic applications. The content is more accessible, more easily editable and convertible, and more full-featured, since it incorporates applets, &c.
I think you'll find that after Ghawar stops dead in a year or two, the remaining source for the U.S. will be pretty much just Nigeria, Venezuela -- and Canada, of course. India and China, OTOH, will burn most of the remaining mideast fuel.
A second-generation oil man who worked with King Hubbert at Shell, then went on to teach Geology at Princeton, participate in the development of plate tectonics in a meaningful way, and discover zeolites. His voice counts much much more than most.
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This doesn't pass the laugh test. If they really cared about terrorist financing, they'd nail down the people who placed all the puts on UAL before 9/11, instead of preventing workers from sending money home, and preventing any contributions to refugee relief. Hell, the head of the ISI, who was in D.C. meeting with Porter Goss on 9/11, wired Mohammed Atta 100,000 $US in August that year. The whole business stinks from the top, not the bottom.
If my employee discovered that I was unknowingly violating the law, and thus placing the business at risk, but did not promptly inform me, I would fire that person on the spot.
I'm pretty sure it would be dead-easy to hire USians to go live in the Green and Pleasant Land. By the millions. As a US company, it should be straight-forward to arrange residence permits.
The real problem here is games that bore you to death. But sometimes, you know that the entertainment payback, such as a change in social relations, or a cluster of more interesting quests, will make it worth the time or money to advance. Why should the vendor of a gaming experience have to right or the desire to determine where I chose to optimize the time vs. money tradeoff?
Perhaps the concern is motivated by a competitive imbalance favoring the wealthy. I think you'll need to get over this personal psychological issue, if you want to have an enjoyable life, either in the virtual world, or in the real world.
Release it pseudonymously, or have someone front for you, like Jon Lech Johannsen (sp?) fronts for MoRE. I'd be happy to act as an anonymizing layer between you and your release agent, if you wish.
An a law isn't a law, if it has already been found to be unconstitutional. There is a body of SC precedent that holds that (1) anonymity is a protected free speech right, and (2) the first amendment applies to the states as well as the federal government. In this case, 1+2 = 3: Any such state law is prima facie unconsitutional.
susAn Ion.
The premise that not taking joy in mass murder makes you a caricature is questionable. I don't think so. You needn't kowtow to the brownshirts just because the voices of the genocidal class are strident and loud.
This is how democracy ends, first with a bang, then a whimper.
Much worse atrocities? The Soviet Union is history, friend. There's nobody who can compete with the U.S. for magnitude of evil in this millenium. Some pockets of abject tyranny exist, but their scale is small. There's only one evil empire today, and you're in it.
China? China hasn't spread nuclear waste over the cradle of civilization. China hasn't invaded non-beligerent nations in decades, and hasn't killed a quarter of a million people in another country in order to keep them from forming a government for their homeland. I don't know what the stats are on forced abortions in China, though. Depending on your value system, this might loom large in any comparison.
What you describe is not to Wikipedia's credit, but to its detriment. It consists of an archipelago of cliques of mutually supportive liars, who have gained control over a bit of the social neurosphere, and defend it against all comers. Wikipedia is supremely excellent, when considering only the non-controversial subset of purely factual articles, but it is insanely pernicious in its ability to propagandize the delusions of deeply invested fanatics with a modicum of organizational skill.
the federal reserve system requires the formation of new debt in order to increse the money supply. dollars are issued by a private corporation to the feral government of the us in exchange for bonded interest bearing securities. dollars are issued to national banks by the federal reserve banks in the form of loans at an interest rate established by the board of directors at the open market meetings. there are no other sources of dollars. thus, it is in fact impossible to pay off the national debt, considered as the sum of the obligations of the federal government and the national banks. the debt can only increase, draining the wealth of the nation into the hands of the directors of the federal reserve banks.
the nominal national debt is the sum of the secured obligations of the national treasury, which principally takes the form of treasury bonds. this debt can, theoretically, be repaid, if the treasury were to generate enough income. doing so would essentially destroy the national economy, unless it were acheived by external acquisition, such as invasion of a large oil field, or capture of a metal-rich asteroid.
but the notion of 20T$ of precious metals as a lump sum, with instantaneous presence, is incoherent. it would not be possible to sell it, and if it were, the strike price would be a tiny fraction of that. nonetheless, any nation or enterprise which can capture such a prize could dominate the global economy for decades.
Yes, I am beginning to understand now. Since advocates of Intelligent Design use empirical facts and valid deduction to support their claims, therefore empirical facts and valid deduction are disreputable. I'm very sorry that I spoke out of turn. I wouldn't want to be percieved as being a supporter of a politically incorrect viewpoint, after all.
Actually, an overwhelming majority of the Iraqis are opposed to the U.S. occupation. But they didn't get to vote on *that*. I rather do believe, from talking to people in Iraq, that a majority would vote for Sadaam Hussein right now, if there were a democracy there, instead of a puppet client state under foreign military occupation.
Several members of the German high command were hung by the neck until dead for the crime of waging a war of aggression. They claimed they did it to defend the German victims of tyrannical oppression in Poland, but everyone knew it was just empire-building.
Patriotism is a willingness to sacrifice in order to preserve and defend your people group and way of life, and it is a virtue as such.
Knew her? Heck, I almost *minored* in Ursula Major.
No, the U.S. is not fighting any war against terrorists. It invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, which are countries, and thus waged war on those countries, and continues to occupy them. People who fight against that are called patriots, not terrorists. Arguably, since the U.S. has global hegemony for the moment, any combat operations conducted by the U.S. are actually suppressions of popular insurrections against their empire.
> I'm just standing up and telling the tinfoil weirdos to get back in their (faraday) cages and let the rational people have a rational debate that will actually enhance people's understanding of the situation.
You keep using that word, "rational". I do not think it means what you think it means.
It does not mean attempting to pre-empt factual, reasoned, discussion by name-calling and sneering mockery, for example.
Perhaps *all* real conservatives.
The Trotskyite red-diapers who are currently using our armed forces as a cheap toy and conducting the most immense transfer of wealth in history, from the US to Europe, are disqualified from that category.
Americans at large have a general understanding that the purpose of the government is to aggregate power and wealth to those who control the government, and that the government is not under the control of the electorate, but rather of a dynamic complex of involved individuals, affiliated by familial, cultural and economic ties, primarily representing the controlling interests and authorities in the intelligence community, the military-industrial complex, the mass-media and the banking system, who are collectively able to determine the acceptable range of public discourse and consequently the slate of electable candidates.
Americans hope against hope that the inherent complexity of the system will create adequate checks and balances to prevent it from killing outright they themselves and their closest friends and family members, but they know it's a crapshoot, so they try not to get involved in the struggle for power that so occupies the minds of evil men. Ultimately, justice is not of interest to Americans unless it is in personal application, as a defense against abusive power. The American ideology prefers a robust raw machiavellian power to an effette idealism. Indeed, it considers religion an opiate, an escape from or a hedge against the agonies of the meat-grinding machine of the society in which they live, rather than a livable set of principles to be applied in that social context.
Of course that doesn't prevent the government from disregarding the law and killing its opponents. It just provides plausible deniability.
1) Jobs clustered by skill/qualification sets, so I can browse rather than searching by keyword.
2) International, telecommuting support.
3) I want to know how many applicants/qualified applicants have already hit on it.
4) Require payscale in all postings.
5) Find my former co-workers.
6) Grovel the web for applicant info, so I don't have to, in order to get background on someone.
7) Estimate matches, like a matchmaking site.
Not compatible with FF 1.5.0.1
While that may be the design intent of PDF, it is not the typical use. End users just want to see the content, and don't care about the presentation, as long as it is *usable*. With and SVG thrown in, Unipage should be superior to PDF for most purely electronic applications. The content is more accessible, more easily editable and convertible, and more full-featured, since it incorporates applets, &c.
I think you'll find that after Ghawar stops dead in a year or two, the remaining source for the U.S. will be pretty much just Nigeria, Venezuela -- and Canada, of course. India and China, OTOH, will burn most of the remaining mideast fuel.
A second-generation oil man who worked with King Hubbert at Shell, then went on to teach Geology at Princeton, participate in the development of plate tectonics in a meaningful way, and discover zeolites. His voice counts much much more than most.