There were people on here proclaiming that they wanted to boycott all things American... so I asked if they were giving up Slashdot. They got all huffy and said something stupid, though I don't recall what.
I live in a community mostly composed of international graduate students, so I know quite a few foreign nationals, and a few of them have expressed rather strong opinions of Americans... including 2 French women at a recent barbecue we had....and these are the ones who come to the U.S. to study.
Not all of them mind you, but a handful. Certainly on Slashdot there is rampant anti-Americanism.
Always America... Long before America was born. It really is the fact that he's American that he didn't understand... perhaps it's the fact that you're so filled with anti-American propaganda that all you want to do is America bash that you didn't get the joke.
This guy certainly seems to think that the rest of the world think us to be assholes.
American's have to go wearing Canadian stuff in Europe in order to avoid being spit on....and then there are people in my housing community who feel the need to share their point of view on American politics constantly....and then there are a couple hundred replies to various things I've said on/. Just browse through my comments.
It seems like the best way to karma whore here is to slam on the U.S. I've had terribly aggressive affronts here.
It should be 100%, unless you can gaurantee the availability of a component from a U.S. supplier at the quantity required in the event of inavailability from the foreign supplier.
If you can't get it in the U.S. you should make it available in the U.S.
If you want to be ready for war, then you should act like you mean it.
France makes a few insulting gestures toward the U.S.
We don't do much about this. A few businesses substitute the word "Freedom" for "French" in the names of their products. Most of us regard this as a sort of funny joke (in fact, supposedly it started as a joke on ManCow's Morning Madhouse, if you trust ManCow).
And you're going to flip out about this?
Crap, I get told what an ass I am all of the time, merely because I'm an American, and you can't deal with this?
People will attack it because they feel that it is isolationist.
That's kind of the point.
See, if you go to war with the country that makes a critical component that you require to fight that war (a chip needed for a radar system perhaps), you're really screwed when that country refuses to sell it to you because you're at war with them.
Unless you have a sort of strong alliance with said country, you really should be producing anything that is critical to your national defence in-house.
Adult entertainment always seems to be at the forefront of various forms of media. Early films included adult films, television was a little different.
Yes, we have come a long way from the humble, but still beloved, lapdance.
Are you running iTunes on your production servers? Can't you just uninstall iTunes and be fine?
Why would a system configured as a fileserver have that software on it to begin with? Is Apple's apt tool so bad that it tries to patch software that hasn't been installed?
Slashdot Mirror
It's a weekday at a search engine... they just dropped the guys listing.
Shocking... you mean security through obscurity doesn't work?
Say it ain't so!
Ahh. Cool. Yes, that makes sense. I think that I had heard that one as well.
Well, glad that that's cleared up. I feel silly for my alternate explanation now.
No debate here.
There were people on here proclaiming that they wanted to boycott all things American... so I asked if they were giving up Slashdot. They got all huffy and said something stupid, though I don't recall what.
Slashdot is rather simple.
/. and see what it does for you :-)
Go to a unix prompt and type CD
Xenon, now that's something we can all relate to.
Perhaps if you just at a burrito... then you might feel quite gassy I suppose.
Well,
...and these are the ones who come to the U.S. to study.
I live in a community mostly composed of international graduate students, so I know quite a few foreign nationals, and a few of them have expressed rather strong opinions of Americans... including 2 French women at a recent barbecue we had.
Not all of them mind you, but a handful. Certainly on Slashdot there is rampant anti-Americanism.
Always America... Long before America was born. It really is the fact that he's American that he didn't understand... perhaps it's the fact that you're so filled with anti-American propaganda that all you want to do is America bash that you didn't get the joke.
I know several people from Cornell who have applied to and work at Microsoft.
I don't think that there is any shortage of talent in the U.S., but if they aren't taking people from MIT, they certainly are taking them here.
Dude...
The guy in charge of the company is Rodney Brooks. Surely, there are innovative projects done at that company.
That's no moon...
Uhhmmm. No.
You get vendors to build the parts in-house in the U.S. The parts are foriegn, so you build the resources inside your country to build to components.
You don't just give up the stuff, you build the capacity to get it in house.
What do you think China was doing with the dragon chip?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=150375&cid=126 11472
...and then there are people in my housing community who feel the need to share their point of view on American politics constantly. ...and then there are a couple hundred replies to various things I've said on /. Just browse through my comments.
This guy certainly seems to think that the rest of the world think us to be assholes.
American's have to go wearing Canadian stuff in Europe in order to avoid being spit on.
It seems like the best way to karma whore here is to slam on the U.S. I've had terribly aggressive affronts here.
I would, I live in a community of international students.
Most of them are fine with me, sometimes I have to listen to a bunch of crap about the rest of the U.S.
Funny that anybody would choose to attend a U.S. school, and then run down the U.S. (No offense guys)
Perhaps.
But I was tired when I posted that.
More directly to the point, I'm sick of being called an American asshole. I'm not an asshole. I am American.
Quit with this. All of you calling me an asshole, just for being American, are pretentious twits with no clue regarding what is appropriate.
Read the following link
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http://georgemiller.blogspot.com/2004/06/how-to-i
Thanks, it really is a hoot.
I didn't say that the government was actually doing any good at this.
You're right.
It should be 100%, unless you can gaurantee the availability of a component from a U.S. supplier at the quantity required in the event of inavailability from the foreign supplier.
If you can't get it in the U.S. you should make it available in the U.S.
If you want to be ready for war, then you should act like you mean it.
So...
France makes a few insulting gestures toward the U.S.
We don't do much about this. A few businesses substitute the word "Freedom" for "French" in the names of their products. Most of us regard this as a sort of funny joke (in fact, supposedly it started as a joke on ManCow's Morning Madhouse, if you trust ManCow).
And you're going to flip out about this?
Crap, I get told what an ass I am all of the time, merely because I'm an American, and you can't deal with this?
This is a really good policy actually.
People will attack it because they feel that it is isolationist.
That's kind of the point.
See, if you go to war with the country that makes a critical component that you require to fight that war (a chip needed for a radar system perhaps), you're really screwed when that country refuses to sell it to you because you're at war with them.
Unless you have a sort of strong alliance with said country, you really should be producing anything that is critical to your national defence in-house.
adult entertainment
Adult entertainment always seems to be at the forefront of various forms of media. Early films included adult films, television was a little different.
Yes, we have come a long way from the humble, but still beloved, lapdance.
Are you running iTunes on your production servers? Can't you just uninstall iTunes and be fine?
Why would a system configured as a fileserver have that software on it to begin with? Is Apple's apt tool so bad that it tries to patch software that hasn't been installed?
From the Cornell Nanoscale Facility, though I don't work there, I'm studying in the attached atrium.
:-)
Woo
All good. Even better is when we're on the couches in the lab and I ask my friends to grab my bawls for me.