At least from my observations, most people think the guys going to college in the states from overseas came here on a raft. In fact, all of the foreign students I met were from well-off to outlandishly rich families (3 Saudis I met of a group of maybe 10). The poor foreigners are the guys doing the lowest-rung work in our economy while the middle class guys are those small shop or restaurant owners. I'd say at least 95% of the foreign students I've met meet my description.
Someone returning so much of a valuable mineral or metal that it completely destabilizes the economy.
Someone using say a mass driver to return a large asteroid to Earth orbit, screwing up their calculations and either disrupting satellites or worse crashing it into the planet.
A space program on the international stage isn't about getting people to like you. It's about getting people to fear you. You're basically showing the world that you have the infrastructure, cohesion, and technology to pull of a milestone feat for a nation. And it also implies that you can drop a nuke on any point on the globe.
Been a while since I read an essay on "Origin", but as I recall Darwin was sitting on his works for quite a while. It was only after he learned that someone else was working on what he'd already accomplished that he decided to publish. Much like the way Newton had to be goaded into publishing the Principia.
Walmart begs to differ. Sell cheap crap from China cheaply enough that you cheap crap waged employees can afford to shop there. It turns our economy from a vertical bell curve to a pyramid.
I have zero sympathy for this kind of hacker, but that's a lot of time for a DDOS that apparently they didn't even execute if I read the charges right.
It's the buffer nation strategy. If you can't overrun them, load them up with weapons and force the guy next door to waste time and resources on them while you go about your business. Same thing Pakistan did with Afghanistan (turning it into a fundamentalist backwater nightmare).
My thoughts weren't that he'd be a reformer, but that the military leadership would have tired of daddy's isolationism and elected to pressure a naive young dictator to restart dialogue with the West. Not a reformer, but a puppet leader for a new agenda. I guess when the leadership lives like royalty, it doesn't matter how many people are starving.
I can see why they'd want their own sandbox. I was thinking about joining a BF3 clan for the first time, started the app process and payments, then promptly withdrew after listening to the supposedly "mature gamers only" spewing epithets. Reading it on a chat window is one thing, listening to it when you're trying to aim is something completely different.
I second this. It's easy to isolate yourself as an IT guy. I went through a work-at-home period where I felt gloomy all the time. It took me a while to realize that isolation can lead to a feedback loop where you're gloomy and don't feel like being social; making your more gloomy. Working at home might be a utopia for some people, but I hated it.
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At least from my observations, most people think the guys going to college in the states from overseas came here on a raft. In fact, all of the foreign students I met were from well-off to outlandishly rich families (3 Saudis I met of a group of maybe 10). The poor foreigners are the guys doing the lowest-rung work in our economy while the middle class guys are those small shop or restaurant owners. I'd say at least 95% of the foreign students I've met meet my description.
Some of us can't even share our wifi with our tablets for free.
Since I'm level 25 in BF3 I guess that qualifies me as a military expert as well!
Seriously, you mouse commandos need to shut the fuck up...
Regardless, Google lied and got busted lying. "She hit me first" didn't work for your mother, and it won't work in court either.
Did you walk in on your parents having sex?
I'm an insomniac and my short term memory gets horrible when I'm in a bad stretch of sleep problems.
You're taking "bad for young minds" literally. To the Chinese government, that means anything that might lead to less pliable, diligent citizens.
You didn't see who the US is fighting in the Red Dawn remake did you? It's not China any more for that reason.
Someone returning so much of a valuable mineral or metal that it completely destabilizes the economy.
Someone using say a mass driver to return a large asteroid to Earth orbit, screwing up their calculations and either disrupting satellites or worse crashing it into the planet.
A space program on the international stage isn't about getting people to like you. It's about getting people to fear you. You're basically showing the world that you have the infrastructure, cohesion, and technology to pull of a milestone feat for a nation. And it also implies that you can drop a nuke on any point on the globe.
Been a while since I read an essay on "Origin", but as I recall Darwin was sitting on his works for quite a while. It was only after he learned that someone else was working on what he'd already accomplished that he decided to publish. Much like the way Newton had to be goaded into publishing the Principia.
I stand my my theory. Steve Jobs is looking more and more evil.
Re: your signature. Is that a joke or did that line actually come from an old Star Trek episode?
Walmart begs to differ. Sell cheap crap from China cheaply enough that you cheap crap waged employees can afford to shop there. It turns our economy from a vertical bell curve to a pyramid.
I have zero sympathy for this kind of hacker, but that's a lot of time for a DDOS that apparently they didn't even execute if I read the charges right.
Sputnik weighs a lot less than Little Boy.
It's the buffer nation strategy. If you can't overrun them, load them up with weapons and force the guy next door to waste time and resources on them while you go about your business. Same thing Pakistan did with Afghanistan (turning it into a fundamentalist backwater nightmare).
They're not showing off aim, they're showing off range.
Foreign affairs isn't a Rambo movie. You don't let nutjob governments paint themselves into a corner where military action is their only recourse.
My thoughts weren't that he'd be a reformer, but that the military leadership would have tired of daddy's isolationism and elected to pressure a naive young dictator to restart dialogue with the West. Not a reformer, but a puppet leader for a new agenda. I guess when the leadership lives like royalty, it doesn't matter how many people are starving.
"Mission control, we have an...err...fuel leak <glug glug glug>. The robot was lost! Could you please send up another, and some olives?"
I can see why they'd want their own sandbox. I was thinking about joining a BF3 clan for the first time, started the app process and payments, then promptly withdrew after listening to the supposedly "mature gamers only" spewing epithets. Reading it on a chat window is one thing, listening to it when you're trying to aim is something completely different.
Yes, we're raping it 10% more times a day, but we're allowing a lot more content through.
You don't hear a lot about porn stars going into paleontology...
I second this. It's easy to isolate yourself as an IT guy. I went through a work-at-home period where I felt gloomy all the time. It took me a while to realize that isolation can lead to a feedback loop where you're gloomy and don't feel like being social; making your more gloomy. Working at home might be a utopia for some people, but I hated it.