Considering that he had both a firearm and a red thong and photographed himself with both, he clearly had Republican leanings. And, he'll be leaning over in jail for a long time. With that shaved head, and an extra 100 pounds, he'd be like Cartman come to life.
If I had free reign to deal with those who piss me off in the same way the cops do, I wouldn't ever need to call them. Of course, I'd probably need backup.
Go take a look at the US Debt Clock and tell me again about economic destruction. While you're at it, replay the DotCom meltdown, the Savings & Loans fiasco, junk bonds, Worldcom, Enron and the mortgage crisis. "Euroweenies"? The US was so afraid of the Nippers after they sank one of their bathtub toys that they had to round up all the Japanese-Americans in pens and then, at the end of the war, didn't have the balls to fight a ground battle so they had to pull out history's deadliest weapon - TWICE, if you're counting. Oh and the building at ground zero of the Nagasaki bombing? A CHRISTIAN church - how's that for irony? Not to mention ( although I will ), their proudest Freudian symbol got leveled by a bunch of towel-heads who were citizens of one of their Middle East friends, a country so concerned of the welfare of its female residents that it won't let them drive, walk around with strange men or vote.
The US and its corporations should be proud of China's accomplishments - they've to make it possible.But what have they done at home lately? Wasted a TRILLION dollars on 2 wars with a couple of ass-pick countries - money that could have solved every major social and infrastructure problem they were facing before the financial meltdown (YET another colossal clusterfuck). America has had decades to show its morals and mettle - despite impressive technology and superior firepower, every conflict it's been embroiled in has been a fuck-up.
I have a much lower opinion of dictatorships than the US but let's face facts - for a long time, the US has been an instigator, inciter and invader in many countries, ostensibly in the name of fighting Communism. Before you criticize bad guys like Saddam, who are or were evil assholes, the US has supported plenty of murdering fucks when it suited their purpose - Manuel Noriega, for example. Ironically, it has also subverted its most cherished
And, just about every time I'm willing to cut America some slack or raise my opinion of the US, I find out more crap. The latest one ( although it's been around for a long time ) is Fort Benning's finest educational institution, the School of the Assassins.
Since the US seems to have so many problems at home, why don't you try this for a generation - recall all your troops, close fucking Guantanamo Bay ( you are in violation of the "agreement" that was forced upon Cuba way back), stop meddling in other countries politics and try to find ways to teach geography to your citizens that don't involve bombings and troop deployments.
It's not like that everywhere and it's too bad that's the way North America has gone with recognition. I've heard (anecdotally) that Nobel Prize winners ( except perhaps for Peace) get rock star treatment in most Asian countries.
We're talking about kids here.What grabs there attention and fires their imagination is different than what we see. Even if you don't think Avatar will inspire future scientists, some other film or program might and probably will. Has Slashdot so soon forgotten that why the Milwaukee School of Engineering awarded an honorary doctorate to James Doohan?
Those books didn't magically collect themselves into a bound and translated volume. They were chosen based on the motives of the powers-that-were at the time. A lot of what became Christian (Catholic?) doctrine was only agreed upon at the council of Nicea and the fact that the Emperor's man was in charge of the proceedings may have had a lot to do with what got decided, what got kept and what got scrapped.
I believe that Edward Gibbon declared that most, if not all, of the New Testament writings that were claimed to have been written prior to the 3rd century were outright frauds and forgeries.
If you think Richard Dawkins is a dick, I hope you never meet Christopher Hitchens. Committed believers typically do come off as dicks. It seems to go hand-in-hand with being passionate about something.
I think we're both wrong in our calculations. For one, mineral / element abundance is calculated for the Earth's crust but you're using the weight of the entire planet so your ppm figures for Nitrogen are very low.
From what I've found, N2 in the crust is only in trace amounts but it's found in 0.5 ppm in seawater. I can't find numbers for mass of crust, however but I did find that it's volume is only 1% of planetary total.
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Considering that he had both a firearm and a red thong and photographed himself with both, he clearly had Republican leanings. And, he'll be leaning over in jail for a long time. With that shaved head, and an extra 100 pounds, he'd be like Cartman come to life.
Heh, read that book a LONG time ago. Worst propulsion idea EVER!
If I had free reign to deal with those who piss me off in the same way the cops do, I wouldn't ever need to call them. Of course, I'd probably need backup.
Go take a look at the US Debt Clock and tell me again about economic destruction. While you're at it, replay the DotCom meltdown, the Savings & Loans fiasco, junk bonds, Worldcom, Enron and the mortgage crisis.
"Euroweenies"? The US was so afraid of the Nippers after they sank one of their bathtub toys that they had to round up all the Japanese-Americans in pens and then, at the end of the war, didn't have the balls to fight a ground battle so they had to pull out history's deadliest weapon - TWICE, if you're counting. Oh and the building at ground zero of the Nagasaki bombing? A CHRISTIAN church - how's that for irony?
Not to mention ( although I will ), their proudest Freudian symbol got leveled by a bunch of towel-heads who were citizens of one of their Middle East friends, a country so concerned of the welfare of its female residents that it won't let them drive, walk around with strange men or vote.
The US and its corporations should be proud of China's accomplishments - they've to make it possible.But what have they done at home lately? Wasted a TRILLION dollars on 2 wars with a couple of ass-pick countries - money that could have solved every major social and infrastructure problem they were facing before the financial meltdown (YET another colossal clusterfuck).
America has had decades to show its morals and mettle - despite impressive technology and superior firepower, every conflict it's been embroiled in has been a fuck-up.
If I'm arrogant and preachy, I must have learned it from the US gov't (and some of their people). And, I'm not European
I have a much lower opinion of dictatorships than the US but let's face facts - for a long time, the US has been an instigator, inciter and invader in many countries, ostensibly in the name of fighting Communism. Before you criticize bad guys like Saddam, who are or were evil assholes, the US has supported plenty of murdering fucks when it suited their purpose - Manuel Noriega, for example. Ironically, it has also subverted its most cherished
And, just about every time I'm willing to cut America some slack or raise my opinion of the US, I find out more crap.
The latest one ( although it's been around for a long time ) is Fort Benning's finest educational institution, the School of the Assassins.
Since the US seems to have so many problems at home, why don't you try this for a generation - recall all your troops, close fucking Guantanamo Bay ( you are in violation of the "agreement" that was forced upon Cuba way back), stop meddling in other countries politics and try to find ways to teach geography to your citizens that don't involve bombings and troop deployments.
I hear it's catching on everywhere except the country that invented it.
Will we disenfranchise all humans who fail the test?
Still not as evil.as corporations and many, many, many humans
I'd mod you up to 11, if I could
Youthinks correctly. I've now gone and done it myself, plan to do it for all my PCs and may keep it going for a week.
Didn't they mandate this back in late 2006. What the heck took the EU so long?
That's it? Your reward for possibly altering civilization is a PARKING SPACE? No wonder more kids hope to make their mark in athletics than academics.
Happy Holidays, btw
It's not like that everywhere and it's too bad that's the way North America has gone with recognition. I've heard (anecdotally) that Nobel Prize winners ( except perhaps for Peace) get rock star treatment in most Asian countries.
We're talking about kids here.What grabs there attention and fires their imagination is different than what we see. Even if you don't think Avatar will inspire future scientists, some other film or program might and probably will. Has Slashdot so soon forgotten that why the Milwaukee School of Engineering awarded an honorary doctorate to James Doohan?
Those books didn't magically collect themselves into a bound and translated volume. They were chosen based on the motives of the powers-that-were at the time.
A lot of what became Christian (Catholic?) doctrine was only agreed upon at the council of Nicea and the fact that the Emperor's man was in charge of the proceedings may have had a lot to do with what got decided, what got kept and what got scrapped.
I believe that Edward Gibbon declared that most, if not all, of the New Testament writings that were claimed to have been written prior to the 3rd century were outright frauds and forgeries.
If you think Richard Dawkins is a dick, I hope you never meet Christopher Hitchens. Committed believers typically do come off as dicks. It seems to go hand-in-hand with being passionate about something.
"Militant fundamentalist" is redundant. It's the duty of a fundamentalist to spread the word and defend the faith.
Looks like a high school friend of mine may have been right when he said all the sane people are in the asylums and the nutcases are running loose.
I think we're both wrong in our calculations. For one, mineral / element abundance is calculated for the Earth's crust but you're using the weight of the entire planet so your ppm figures for Nitrogen are very low.
From what I've found, N2 in the crust is only in trace amounts but it's found in 0.5 ppm in seawater.
I can't find numbers for mass of crust, however but I did find that it's volume is only 1% of planetary total.
Lead, perhaps but Nitrogen? It's 80% of the atmosphere. That would be one huge pile of rare earth.
Don't judge all the world's powerful people by a few idiots. Most of them, even the evil bastards, are very well educated
I see you got modded Troll for telling the truth. ;-)
That'll teach you to knock reality TV