instead, I'm the homeless schizophrenic that you resent for being aimless. The in-tuned nameless, I am. I am that NGH. I am that NGH. I am that NGH. I am a negro. Yes, negro from necro, meaning death. I overcame it so they named me after it. And I be spitting at death from behind and putting "kick me" signs on it's back, because, I am not the son of Sha Clack Clack . I am before that. I am before. I am before before. Before death is eternity. After death is eternity. There is no death there's only eternity. And I be ridin' on the wings of eternity, like yah, yah, Sha Clack Clack.
"Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
I'm still waiting for that FPS that puts you in a trench in WWI, or charging over the top of a trench into machine gun fire. Why hasn't this been done yet?
The gameplay is too linear, everybody is a camper, and each level lasts three to five seconds.
People would call me a lunatic if I said something like that in public, and yet writing a textbook that derives all of multivariable calculus and its applications from scratch is a trivial task compared to, say, memorizing the correct spelling for the 5'000 most common English words.
You must be joking. Until our own withered era, learning to spell the 5,000 most common English word was a task usually accomplished by most literate native English speakers before the age of ten.
And, the best thing is that the statement is still correct - everywhere in the UK is cold.
Bah. I went to St. Andrews. People walked around with full winter coats, gloves, and scarves on when it was merely 32F/0C out. I can't imagine what it must have been like farther south - the English probably dressed up like sherpas if it dipped below room temperature.
It's actually 'exonerates'. The word is derived not from the root "honor", but rather from "onus/onera", the Latin word for "burden". So to 'exonerate' is to 'remove the burden' from someone.
As they score points for each crime committed, the CSIs must discover what consists of getting to the next level in the game in order to stop the culprits before they strike again.'"
However, as a geek, I know that the Dark Ages were as much caused by the change in the fuel economy from wood to coal as the retreat of the Roman Empire.
However, as a pastry chef, I know that the Krebs cycle causes metal fatigue in steel structural support beams.
However, as a ballerina, I know that the Pythagorean theorem causes the release of neutrons from radioactive material.
However, as a professor of French literature, I know that penicillin causes cost overruns in long-haul LTL shipping.
Um...what the fuck is 'per capita GDP'? That's just something you made up, isn't it, because it's a pretty stupid-ass term.
"Per capita GDP" is a pretty ordinary term in economics. It means, of course, "a nation or region's gross domestic product divided by the number of people there". It's a measure of whether a place is wealthy but tiny (Kuwait), wealthy but so big that the average person is poor (China), or some balance between the two (UK, USA).
A very brief Google search will demonstrate that this stupid-ass term I made up is also used by the EU, the UN, the World Bank, etc. in economic analysis.
It is larger than... Ireland, and Finland, and thus so is its economy.
The fallacy that "larger in population" means "larger in economy" is what measurements like per capita GDP help to eliminate. For instance, Taiwan's economy is much larger than that of Bangladesh, despite the enormous disparity in their populations.
Luxembourg? WTF? Do they even have an 'economy'?
Luxembourg has an annual GDP of about $27.3 billion. Perhaps you are thinking of Liechtenstein instead.
There is a world of difference between tolerance and ignoring people who are actively pushing to destroy everything that made this country great.
Go on, tell us all about it. Are the bad people "rough" and "uncultured"? Do they "not know their place"? Are they "backwards" and "savage"? Are they "not like us"? Do they talk differently, and believe different things? Is their culture "inferior", and needs to be changed before it will be fashionable? Let's hear all about your prejudices. Come on, use all the cliches.
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I like star trek: TNG. Why? Because, it suggests that sometime in the future, mankind will unite, currency will be replaced by an understanding of needs and a willingness to participate in society, all the earth will stand as one. A place where we explore, not invade, a place where we bring peace, not capitalism to other cultures.
See, and this is why people refer to it as "science fantasy".
We might consider to accept Missouri as well if you will behave and make some progress...
Missouri probably doesn't belong in the EU, because it's large and wealthy already. Its GDP in 2003 was $194,611,000,000 USD, or $29,252 USD per capita. Its population is about 5,755,000. Its armed forces number approx. 10,500 soldiers and airmen (not including those which it contributes to the United States' armed forces).
That means that its per capita GDP is almost equal to those of the UK or Belgium, and is higher than those of France, Germany, Italy, or Spain. Its economy is larger than those of Ireland, Luxembourg, Finland, Greece, or Portugal. Its population is greater than those of Denmark, Finland, or Ireland, let alone the EU's tinier members.
Missouri is the seventeenth-largest of the United States, and is usually considered a rural state.
And, no, I'm not from Missouri, and I've never been there.
That world view and agenda has a lot of problems of course, but it's very far from any desire to rule America, that you claim they have "never made any secret of". So where are the public and unambigous statements to that effect?
"What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?
"(1) The first thing we are calling you to is Islam. [...] (a) The religion of the Unification of God; of freedom from associating partners with Him, the Exalted; of complete submission to His Laws; and of discarding all of the opinions, orders, theories and religions which contradict with the religion He sent down to His Prophet Muhammed [...] It is the religion of Jihad in the way of Allah so that Allah's Word and religion reign Supreme.
"(2) The second thing we call you to, is to stop your oppression, lies, immorality and debauchery that has spread among you. (a) We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honour, and purity; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling's, and trading with interest. [...]
"(i) You are the nation who, rather than ruling by the Shariah of Allah in its Constitution and Laws, choose to invent your own laws as you will and desire. You separate religion from your policies, contradicting the pure nature which affirms Absolute Authority to the Lord and your Creator. [...]
"If you fail to respond to all these conditions, then prepare for fight with the Islamic Nation. [...]
"This is our message to the Americans, as an answer to theirs. Do they now know why we fight them and over which form of ignorance, by the permission of Allah, we shall be victorious?"
i don't know if i agree with you on how to deal with the problem. killing lots of people, being grim to modern sensibilities, can sometimes be as demoralising to the people who are doing the killing as to the people being killed...
I'm sure the British weren't too thrilled about fighting the Second World War, either, but it's not as though they had much of a choice. It only takes one side to start a war.
my thoughts would be that if you better educate and care for those that would become fanatics and terrorists, then maybe they'll see that they don't have to kill people to make their point.
The problem, as others have pointed out, is that the "fanatics and terrorists" at this point tend to come from the middle and upper classes. OBL himself is the scion of a wealthy Saudi family. The "insurgents" in Iraq are the Arab-world equivalents of the bored rich kids who fly overseas to protest at WTO meetings - they can become international terrorists literally because they can afford the airfare and bring cash with them. They aren't fighting for "social justice", or "economic fairness" or anything else - they are fighting the jihad to restore the Caliphate and bring the West into the House of Islam. The poor, desperate hardscrabble farmers are still at home being poor, desperate hardscrabble farmers. They don't have the money or leisure to go to London and blow things up.
How can you "deal with that sort of mentality"? By doing exactly what is being done, grim though it is to modern sensibilities. You kill as many of them as you can find. You attempt to break their logistics, assassinate their leaders, and demoralize their underlings. This diminishes their ability to fight, and destroys their belief that they're going to win.
With all the humanitarian work that's been happening in the last weeks, you'd think that malcontents would be a little less belligerent. Progress is being made.
You don't get it yet, do you? The perpetrators of the London bombings, the Madrid bombing, the Istanbul bombing, the Bali bombing, and the 9/11 attacks aren't interested in "humanitarian work" or in "progress". They are interested in defeating the West and putting it under fundamentalist Islamic rule. They have never made any secret of it.
I'm so glad the first Gulf War and WWII were ended by a round table discussions.
After the US and Britain's ruthless and unprovoked attack on Mussolini's Italy, anyway. There was no proof that Italy was in any way involved with either the invasion of Poland or the attack at Pearl Harbor.
Maybe it's time for you US/UK folks to ask yourselves again whether you're really doing the right thing in Iraq/Afghanistan...
Well, you're halfway there. In fact, the bombers' purpose was to force Londoners to ask themselves again whether they were really doing the right thing in refusing to accept Mohammed as the Prophet of God. Perhaps you'll get the clue next time.
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instead, I'm the homeless schizophrenic that you resent for being aimless. The in-tuned nameless, I am. I am that NGH. I am that NGH. I am that NGH. I am a negro. Yes, negro from necro, meaning death. I overcame it so they named me after it. And I be spitting at death from behind and putting "kick me" signs on it's back, because, I am not the son of Sha Clack Clack . I am before that. I am before. I am before before. Before death is eternity. After death is eternity. There is no death there's only eternity. And I be ridin' on the wings of eternity, like yah, yah, Sha Clack Clack.
"Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
The gameplay is too linear, everybody is a camper, and each level lasts three to five seconds.
"Don't keep me vaiting..."
People would call me a lunatic if I said something like that in public, and yet writing a textbook that derives all of multivariable calculus and its applications from scratch is a trivial task compared to, say, memorizing the correct spelling for the 5'000 most common English words.
You must be joking. Until our own withered era, learning to spell the 5,000 most common English word was a task usually accomplished by most literate native English speakers before the age of ten.
Bah. I went to St. Andrews. People walked around with full winter coats, gloves, and scarves on when it was merely 32F/0C out. I can't imagine what it must have been like farther south - the English probably dressed up like sherpas if it dipped below room temperature.
It's actually 'exonerates'. The word is derived not from the root "honor", but rather from "onus/onera", the Latin word for "burden". So to 'exonerate' is to 'remove the burden' from someone.
Couldn't the CSIs just check the walkthrough?
Assuming your
However, as a geek, I know that the Dark Ages were as much caused by the change in the fuel economy from wood to coal as the retreat of the Roman Empire.
However, as a pastry chef, I know that the Krebs cycle causes metal fatigue in steel structural support beams.
However, as a ballerina, I know that the Pythagorean theorem causes the release of neutrons from radioactive material.
However, as a professor of French literature, I know that penicillin causes cost overruns in long-haul LTL shipping.
We've got neutrons for half the price of our competition!
What?! There's already no charge for neutrons!
getting off topic here, but what happens to your "modifications" when you sell your house?
Caveat emperor?
I think that if an emperor were to buy your house, he could afford to perform his own inspections and rewiring.
Perhaps you meant "caveat emptor".
Um...what the fuck is 'per capita GDP'? That's just something you made up, isn't it, because it's a pretty stupid-ass term.
... Ireland, and Finland, and thus so is its economy.
"Per capita GDP" is a pretty ordinary term in economics. It means, of course, "a nation or region's gross domestic product divided by the number of people there". It's a measure of whether a place is wealthy but tiny (Kuwait), wealthy but so big that the average person is poor (China), or some balance between the two (UK, USA).
A very brief Google search will demonstrate that this stupid-ass term I made up is also used by the EU, the UN, the World Bank, etc. in economic analysis.
It is larger than
The fallacy that "larger in population" means "larger in economy" is what measurements like per capita GDP help to eliminate. For instance, Taiwan's economy is much larger than that of Bangladesh, despite the enormous disparity in their populations.
Luxembourg? WTF? Do they even have an 'economy'?
Luxembourg has an annual GDP of about $27.3 billion. Perhaps you are thinking of Liechtenstein instead.
Of course by "them" I mean the majority [...] People
And yet:
I have no prejudices about them... I have no prejudices in this respect.
*laugh* The prosecution rests.
There is a world of difference between tolerance and ignoring people who are actively pushing to destroy everything that made this country great.
Go on, tell us all about it. Are the bad people "rough" and "uncultured"? Do they "not know their place"? Are they "backwards" and "savage"? Are they "not like us"? Do they talk differently, and believe different things? Is their culture "inferior", and needs to be changed before it will be fashionable? Let's hear all about your prejudices. Come on, use all the cliches.
See, and this is why people refer to it as "science fantasy".
Ironically, I would bet that you like to claim that you are "tolerant" of other cultures.
We might consider to accept Missouri as well if you will behave and make some progress...
Missouri probably doesn't belong in the EU, because it's large and wealthy already. Its GDP in 2003 was $194,611,000,000 USD, or $29,252 USD per capita. Its population is about 5,755,000. Its armed forces number approx. 10,500 soldiers and airmen (not including those which it contributes to the United States' armed forces).
That means that its per capita GDP is almost equal to those of the UK or Belgium, and is higher than those of France, Germany, Italy, or Spain. Its economy is larger than those of Ireland, Luxembourg, Finland, Greece, or Portugal. Its population is greater than those of Denmark, Finland, or Ireland, let alone the EU's tinier members.
Missouri is the seventeenth-largest of the United States, and is usually considered a rural state.
And, no, I'm not from Missouri, and I've never been there.
"What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?
"(1) The first thing we are calling you to is Islam. [...] (a) The religion of the Unification of God; of freedom from associating partners with Him, the Exalted; of complete submission to His Laws; and of discarding all of the opinions, orders, theories and religions which contradict with the religion He sent down to His Prophet Muhammed [...] It is the religion of Jihad in the way of Allah so that Allah's Word and religion reign Supreme.
"(2) The second thing we call you to, is to stop your oppression, lies, immorality and debauchery that has spread among you. (a) We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honour, and purity; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling's, and trading with interest. [...]
"(i) You are the nation who, rather than ruling by the Shariah of Allah in its Constitution and Laws, choose to invent your own laws as you will and desire. You separate religion from your policies, contradicting the pure nature which affirms Absolute Authority to the Lord and your Creator. [...]
"If you fail to respond to all these conditions, then prepare for fight with the Islamic Nation. [...]
"This is our message to the Americans, as an answer to theirs. Do they now know why we fight them and over which form of ignorance, by the permission of Allah, we shall be victorious?"
"Letter to the American People", by Osama Bin Laden.
i don't know if i agree with you on how to deal with the problem. killing lots of people, being grim to modern sensibilities, can sometimes be as demoralising to the people who are doing the killing as to the people being killed...
I'm sure the British weren't too thrilled about fighting the Second World War, either, but it's not as though they had much of a choice. It only takes one side to start a war.
Bush may not be the brightest bulb around but he has sure got this one right.
And, like many of us, after you add up the "got this one right" column, you start to rethink the "not the brightest bulb" part.
Perhaps you are being literal-minded.
my thoughts would be that if you better educate and care for those that would become fanatics and terrorists, then maybe they'll see that they don't have to kill people to make their point.
The problem, as others have pointed out, is that the "fanatics and terrorists" at this point tend to come from the middle and upper classes. OBL himself is the scion of a wealthy Saudi family. The "insurgents" in Iraq are the Arab-world equivalents of the bored rich kids who fly overseas to protest at WTO meetings - they can become international terrorists literally because they can afford the airfare and bring cash with them. They aren't fighting for "social justice", or "economic fairness" or anything else - they are fighting the jihad to restore the Caliphate and bring the West into the House of Islam. The poor, desperate hardscrabble farmers are still at home being poor, desperate hardscrabble farmers. They don't have the money or leisure to go to London and blow things up.
How can you "deal with that sort of mentality"? By doing exactly what is being done, grim though it is to modern sensibilities. You kill as many of them as you can find. You attempt to break their logistics, assassinate their leaders, and demoralize their underlings. This diminishes their ability to fight, and destroys their belief that they're going to win.
With all the humanitarian work that's been happening in the last weeks, you'd think that malcontents would be a little less belligerent. Progress is being made.
You don't get it yet, do you? The perpetrators of the London bombings, the Madrid bombing, the Istanbul bombing, the Bali bombing, and the 9/11 attacks aren't interested in "humanitarian work" or in "progress". They are interested in defeating the West and putting it under fundamentalist Islamic rule. They have never made any secret of it.
After the US and Britain's ruthless and unprovoked attack on Mussolini's Italy, anyway. There was no proof that Italy was in any way involved with either the invasion of Poland or the attack at Pearl Harbor.
Well, you're halfway there. In fact, the bombers' purpose was to force Londoners to ask themselves again whether they were really doing the right thing in refusing to accept Mohammed as the Prophet of God. Perhaps you'll get the clue next time.