The point is that from the moment CBS aired, the political effects reverberated around the world almost instantly, as other networks picked up coverage.
The story as written up is slightly misleading, but it's obvious what was meant.
I don't see how it follows that being anti-American implies that they would attack the U.S. You are making broad statements about their policy goals based upon the fact that their reigning ayatollahs being Islamists. In fact you are assuming they have the same aims as bin Laden, which you cannot support, given the dynamics of the region and the many cleavages within Islam and the various ethnicities involved. Iranians are not even Arabs like bin Laden, they are Persians. And Christ, al Qaeda is Sunni, Iran is Shi'a. I don't blame you for being ignorant because the Islamic world is often portrayed in such broad strokes as you use.
Read Hans Morgenthau... nuclear proliferation prevents war. It does sound crazy and I don't like realist theory on the whole but he's basically right.
No one in the U.S. government--certainly no one in power in the Republican party--cares about Democracy in China. This is a matter of economic competition.
The U.S. supported very authoritarian regimes in Korea/Japan in the thirty years post WW Two.
David Harvey makes a good case for the campaign to increase U.S. power in the Middle East as a way to divert needed energy resources away from the rapidly expanding East Asian economy.
I should mention also, many of the Arab terrorists today were engineers. Bin Laden was a civil engineer, I think Mohammed Attah was trained in architecture/city planning.
Any sociologist will tell you, engineers are the most supersticious of all the professions. Many are born-again Christians.
Sociologists are the least likely to believe that God has a place in human relations, because they see how societies work and the role religion plays within.
This may be controversial, but I heard it in lecture tonight.
My dad buys cars every twenty years or so, after he wrecked his Gremlin he bought a Citation in 1982 and then an Impala in 2002. [The Caprice was inherited from a relative].
But my point is, I think your tactic is kind of silly. I bet you could get a $500 to $1000 car to run for a long time for cheap if you aren't too hard on it, assuming it was a good model to begin with.
Reminds me of what my professor told me about Soviet Russia. Getting a drivers license takes an intensive three-month course, after which you know just how the damn thing works.
Although obviously that wouldn't help much with fixing recent models.
Thanks for that mini case study. As a funny coincidence, my professor tonight talked about how far ahead IBM was in mainframes, then when the engineers brought forth transister technology concepts, they got ignored, and it took two guys in a garage to build the personal computer [the two Steves] and then later ease of use so any bum off the street could operate. It is just too hard for an entrenched organization to make big changes.
That tidbit is somewhat separate from your points, and my next question is also off the main point of your post, but I'm wondering, as the other responding poster is, will we see those ceramic polymer engines when the patents expire?
I'm glad to have heard about this particular case that doesn't get much publicity, and maybe I'll research it if I need a paper topic in the political economy area. I don't agree with your absolute statement about big business will always win, because in periods of crisis, businesses can get out competed by dynamic upstart competitors who know what they are doing, but your example is illustrative of what really big money can and does do to protect itself.
Damn, that's cool. Almost prophetic. I guess he really sees these things from a long term campaign perspective... which unfortunately is rare in business these days.
Japan seems to break the mold here though. Recall that article a week or two ago about Toyota's long term development of alternative fuel engines... now Ford liscences them.
It is Good that the law is indeterminate; in the Westminster system of government, the legislature IS the law, and they are also the high court.
At least here there is a branch of government that can protect our liberties--and look at the social history of the twentieth century to realize how much the Court has done before an obstinate Congress.
If you want to find out what the law is, there are great web resources all over [www.oyez.org] but since this particular issue hasn't been decided by the Supreme Court yet, you'll have to go to a legal library or ask a lawyer on the phone. Such is the harsh reality of living in a federalist government, where localities decide their own laws [/sarcasm].
Hendrik Spruyt lectured us yesterday about how Japan took down all the street signs the American occupying forces put up. Apparently you have to know where things are, you may only be given the neighborhood for a location and have to go find things on your own.
Which comes in handy today as a barrier for foreign corporations like FedEx, who need street addresses to operate.
I am getting tired of reading yesterday's nytimes stories on/. This article was released twenty-four hours ago on NY Times Online, and has been in print all day.
Did anyone consider this in terms of what it could mean for corporate taxes?
Right now the states have a hell of a time figuring out what their owed corporate taxes should be. For instance, Texas has to send auditors to Boise, Idaho to audit Kroger grocery stores every year. [This is my dad's job].
If the states work together, they can eliminate a lot of redundancy and labor costs, and find more cheats.
My dad has also worked in NY, LA, and San Francisco as a full-time live-in Texas sales tax auditor, to audit companies based in those cities that do business in Texas. An expensive proposition, if you consider that all the states need to perform this function.
Companies are willing to do anything to shave costs, as the article about shaving employees hours in the NY Times yesterday shows. Cooperation here will counter the fraud/deceit that decentralized government allows. With so many jurisdictions, Enron-like shell games for hiding profits are probably common out there.
So I hope this does help fund government by raking in missed corporate revenues, and does not get used to harass individuals in big brother-esque ways.
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The story as written up is slightly misleading, but it's obvious what was meant.
Races already ban things devices like headphones [although that's more for safety, the need to hear people coming around you].
Read Hans Morgenthau... nuclear proliferation prevents war. It does sound crazy and I don't like realist theory on the whole but he's basically right.
FIFA bans advertisements of any kind in the field of play or on the goals; even logos for the tournament or league never appear on the field.
Brand names printed on the balls and the uniforms are not subject to this ban, of course.
$699 is for the SCO Linux liscence.
The U.S. supported very authoritarian regimes in Korea/Japan in the thirty years post WW Two.
David Harvey makes a good case for the campaign to increase U.S. power in the Middle East as a way to divert needed energy resources away from the rapidly expanding East Asian economy.
This feature is built into Mac OS X.
I should mention also, many of the Arab terrorists today were engineers. Bin Laden was a civil engineer, I think Mohammed Attah was trained in architecture/city planning.
Sociologists are the least likely to believe that God has a place in human relations, because they see how societies work and the role religion plays within.
This may be controversial, but I heard it in lecture tonight.
I think its was sad ignorance; articles like this one show that people who think NASA is that stupid are morons themselves.
And good luck to you if your employer doesn't feel like offering overtime pay.
After all I'm still using a laptop with a 1.2 GB disk. Precious disk space!
It will probably run for thirty more years.
My dad buys cars every twenty years or so, after he wrecked his Gremlin he bought a Citation in 1982 and then an Impala in 2002. [The Caprice was inherited from a relative].
But my point is, I think your tactic is kind of silly. I bet you could get a $500 to $1000 car to run for a long time for cheap if you aren't too hard on it, assuming it was a good model to begin with.
Although obviously that wouldn't help much with fixing recent models.
That tidbit is somewhat separate from your points, and my next question is also off the main point of your post, but I'm wondering, as the other responding poster is, will we see those ceramic polymer engines when the patents expire?
I'm glad to have heard about this particular case that doesn't get much publicity, and maybe I'll research it if I need a paper topic in the political economy area. I don't agree with your absolute statement about big business will always win, because in periods of crisis, businesses can get out competed by dynamic upstart competitors who know what they are doing, but your example is illustrative of what really big money can and does do to protect itself.
Japan seems to break the mold here though. Recall that article a week or two ago about Toyota's long term development of alternative fuel engines... now Ford liscences them.
At least here there is a branch of government that can protect our liberties--and look at the social history of the twentieth century to realize how much the Court has done before an obstinate Congress.
If you want to find out what the law is, there are great web resources all over [www.oyez.org] but since this particular issue hasn't been decided by the Supreme Court yet, you'll have to go to a legal library or ask a lawyer on the phone. Such is the harsh reality of living in a federalist government, where localities decide their own laws [/sarcasm].
This is more apt to help you in China or Korea or Vietnam.
Which comes in handy today as a barrier for foreign corporations like FedEx, who need street addresses to operate.
I am getting tired of reading yesterday's nytimes stories on /. This article was released twenty-four hours ago on NY Times Online, and has been in print all day.
The trolls here have been communicating on the level of lower primates for years.
Right now the states have a hell of a time figuring out what their owed corporate taxes should be. For instance, Texas has to send auditors to Boise, Idaho to audit Kroger grocery stores every year. [This is my dad's job].
If the states work together, they can eliminate a lot of redundancy and labor costs, and find more cheats.
My dad has also worked in NY, LA, and San Francisco as a full-time live-in Texas sales tax auditor, to audit companies based in those cities that do business in Texas. An expensive proposition, if you consider that all the states need to perform this function.
Companies are willing to do anything to shave costs, as the article about shaving employees hours in the NY Times yesterday shows. Cooperation here will counter the fraud/deceit that decentralized government allows. With so many jurisdictions, Enron-like shell games for hiding profits are probably common out there.
So I hope this does help fund government by raking in missed corporate revenues, and does not get used to harass individuals in big brother-esque ways.
Ever tried Office on Mac OS X? If you want to use Unicode, better fire up TextEdit, the free Apple-written app, because Office won't let you use Unicode characters.