If the shipping container is on the verge of sinking or isn't water tight, by all means stay away, but otherwise there is no functional difference between a floating shipping container & a boat, so your injunction is far too pessimistic. I towed around a few barges (admittedly in a lake with no currents & little wind) in my youth...
Are we talking about the nordic petro economy (aka norway, that thanks to Oil still has the money to spend maintaining the welfare state) or the other countries that have been tightening their belts over the past 5 years?
so mr lojical, whi iz it dat you refuze to evan agnolage dat yer bais disservs da kaus dat ya putativly diffindin? i'm tryan ta bring da debate doun te ya lvel here, inabilitee tspel n evryting.
Fatigue, typo, inattention, hormonal imbalance, off your meds, whatever. It is up to you to make yourself understood. Your failings & displayed inability to proofread fall only on yourself.
I find it illuminating that for you, conflictual debate leads quickly to questions of mental stability. Familiar with the Rorschach test, but doesn't know that it is a standardized test that doesn't employ words and can't even spell it correctly... You almost certainly had a doctor test you with it when you were institutionalized, which explains so much about you and your inability to communicate coherently. What was the diagnosis? Paranoia fits with how you empathize with Snowden & refuse to let yourself see that the reason why someone is a refugee/incarcerated or in your case institutionalized, is important to the rest of us.
Still avoiding confronting why you keep getting labeled a zealot by everyone around you, sigh. You cannot really get better until you confront your inner demons (but medication can help).
Ah je ne savais pas que monsieur était divin, capable d'extraire des quantités inouïs d'information de quelques mots. Peut-être que monsieur fait les foires pour amuser les foules aussi?
C'est amusant qu'il prétend que l'Europe centrale est moins xénophobe que les Francais, alors que c'est bien l'Autriche qui a élu cet extrémiste de Jorg Haider etbil.est loin d'être le seul du coin. Ah mais j'ai du mal comprendre et l'extrême droit d'Europe centrale est certainement constitué de nounours.
Maintenant, idiot, cessé donc de faire des suppositions sur mon gouvernement, car vraiment tu y es complètement incompétent car tu te plantes sur toute la ligne. A lire le reste de ton missives visiblement écrit par quelqu'un ayant jamais voyagé, c'est a peine digne d'un môme de 10 ans.
Est ce que tu auras l'intelligence de lire ceci afin de se rend compte qu'il a monté des châteaux dans l'air? J'en doute, car google translate me semble au delà de tes capacités intellectuelles, mais qui sait...
Charles Manson gave up the life that he had in pursuit of his ideals. So did Mandela. Note that there is a major difference in how the public perceives their sacrifices because the reason why is important. He didn't give up a lifestyle, he sought employment where he did in the explicit intention of abandoning it. Biased axe grinders don't get the respect that non-biased people do.
Your criticism of westlake's post displayed zealotry which is germane because it shows that your criticism is biased to the point of being counter-productive.
Not quite sure where you're coming from. Yes the french are hoity toity & believe that they are culturally superior, but then so does everyone. As for being culturally distanced from the rest of Europe, I haven't noticed such a rift in the 30 odd years I've lived here. I see far greater differences between England and the rest of the EEC but then everyone knows that.
France, in a sweeping generalisation prefers to pretend that everyone is descended from the Gauls and actively refuses to develop official statistics concerning race/creed/... Because y'see making it illegal to ask for someone's race/creed on an official form make it impossible to discriminate agains Mr Ben Ali. Not having official stats does make it impossible for Mr Ben Ali to sue the government that his race/creed is insufficiently hired compared to their population stats, like minorities in the USA are able to do.
Snowden is a refugee by choice & if the general level of his defenders are zealots such as yourself, no one will care whether he ends up in a Venezuelan police state or in a US prison. I had assumed that you cared whether his endgame was this depressing, but apparently that is not the case.
Oh I recognize that Snowden is a refugee. It is your interpretation of this as being entirely the USG's fault with him playing the part of the noble blameless whistle blower that is the problem. Your voluntary ignorance of other facts is a sign of zealotry that makes your arguments fit only for preaching to those that already hold your positions. You could just as coherently argue about the sacrifices Mandela or Charles Manson suffer(ed) without convincing anyone.
What is this life that Snowden gave up? Is it the same life he decided he didn't want to have when he went fishing for a job at Booz knowing that he wanted it just to get info he could expose? How is it a renouncement when he never intended on following through? Is this a fact that you are ignoring because it weakens your position?
Are you so set in your opinions that any/all questioning automatically shuts down your reasoning so that you put quotes around words to avoid thinking about them? Again, good luck trying to convince anyone else that yours are not the extremist inflexible viewpoints with arguments like that.
That depends on who you ask. If you ask Assange he'll tell you that the freedom of the universe depends on everyone believing he is the one true prophet of freedom.
Morales, being the big fish in a small pond, likes to believe his own rants are the truth because he has removed everyone who disagrees with him.
He claims that his life was in danger? Well only if he believed that his divine right supersedes those of other countries. He does not get to enter other countries airspaces unless they want him to.
He believes that he he has a sovereign immunity wherever he goes & any time the whim comes upon him? Well, no he doesn't -- unless that was granted to him by the countries he wants to fly over & even that right is not unlimited as he so recently learned.
The only person threatening war was Morales when, after throwing his tantrum, didn't get to do as he pleased. Funny how you you try to throw that back onto the rest of the world.
You forgot to add the interesting point that France, the government complaining the loudest about US/UK spying on their population has been doing the exact same thing. As the Minister so eloquently put it: It's not illegal when we spy on our own citizens & everybody else, but HOW DARE THEY!!!
Of course, doing a dumb word to word substitution from English into French & then back again will give a closer match to the original than a translation where one uses expressions that better convey the meaning. But hey, if mind you do not like Yoda you wish to speak, by all means, stick with the substitutions & ignore the snickering from those who actually speak both languages.
Completely ridiculous. French politicians are soo afraid of the public that they voted global amnesty laws forgiving the whole lot of themselves for the corruption they used to finance their political parties -- without having most of them get voted out of office in the subsequent elections.
French politicians have coined phrases like "I was responsible for the deaths of hundreds in continuing to use contaminated blood, but I'm not guily of breaking any laws".
Only the ignorant believe that politics in France is any different than anywhere else.
Of course, neatly overstepping the revelations from kruschev's diary & other sources that other "madmen" just as careless of human lives but dedicated to the extermination of democracy & this free speech we enjoy on the other side.
Thus, trust, but verify, which has serves us all well.
The major success of the Cold War was the avoidance of a nuclear war. This came about in large part because both sides had good information on the other's forces & equipment. Not just because we signed treaties but because we were checking on each other.
The key phrase was: Trust, but verify. Even with allies, trust but verify avoids surprises.
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Because the bogey man will sweep down & kill everyone?
Sorry, my practical experience in maneuvering barges roughly equivalent to what a floating container would mass trumps your baseless injunctions.
If the shipping container is on the verge of sinking or isn't water tight, by all means stay away, but otherwise there is no functional difference between a floating shipping container & a boat, so your injunction is far too pessimistic. I towed around a few barges (admittedly in a lake with no currents & little wind) in my youth...
Are we talking about the nordic petro economy (aka norway, that thanks to Oil still has the money to spend maintaining the welfare state) or the other countries that have been tightening their belts over the past 5 years?
so mr lojical, whi iz it dat you refuze to evan agnolage dat yer bais disservs da kaus dat ya putativly diffindin? i'm tryan ta bring da debate doun te ya lvel here, inabilitee tspel n evryting.
Fatigue, typo, inattention, hormonal imbalance, off your meds, whatever. It is up to you to make yourself understood. Your failings & displayed inability to proofread fall only on yourself.
I find it illuminating that for you, conflictual debate leads quickly to questions of mental stability. Familiar with the Rorschach test, but doesn't know that it is a standardized test that doesn't employ words and can't even spell it correctly... You almost certainly had a doctor test you with it when you were institutionalized, which explains so much about you and your inability to communicate coherently. What was the diagnosis? Paranoia fits with how you empathize with Snowden & refuse to let yourself see that the reason why someone is a refugee/incarcerated or in your case institutionalized, is important to the rest of us.
Still avoiding confronting why you keep getting labeled a zealot by everyone around you, sigh. You cannot really get better until you confront your inner demons (but medication can help).
Ah je ne savais pas que monsieur était divin, capable d'extraire des quantités inouïs d'information de quelques mots. Peut-être que monsieur fait les foires pour amuser les foules aussi?
C'est amusant qu'il prétend que l'Europe centrale est moins xénophobe que les Francais, alors que c'est bien l'Autriche qui a élu cet extrémiste de Jorg Haider etbil.est loin d'être le seul du coin. Ah mais j'ai du mal comprendre et l'extrême droit d'Europe centrale est certainement constitué de nounours.
Maintenant, idiot, cessé donc de faire des suppositions sur mon gouvernement, car vraiment tu y es complètement incompétent car tu te plantes sur toute la ligne. A lire le reste de ton missives visiblement écrit par quelqu'un ayant jamais voyagé, c'est a peine digne d'un môme de 10 ans.
Est ce que tu auras l'intelligence de lire ceci afin de se rend compte qu'il a monté des châteaux dans l'air? J'en doute, car google translate me semble au delà de tes capacités intellectuelles, mais qui sait...
I'd recommend you reread your posts before clicking submit to avoid posting nonsensical replies...
I'd also recommend that you look up the word zealot & reflect on why you are hearing it so often.
Charles Manson gave up the life that he had in pursuit of his ideals. So did Mandela. Note that there is a major difference in how the public perceives their sacrifices because the reason why is important. He didn't give up a lifestyle, he sought employment where he did in the explicit intention of abandoning it. Biased axe grinders don't get the respect that non-biased people do.
Your criticism of westlake's post displayed zealotry which is germane because it shows that your criticism is biased to the point of being counter-productive.
Not quite sure where you're coming from. Yes the french are hoity toity & believe that they are culturally superior, but then so does everyone. As for being culturally distanced from the rest of Europe, I haven't noticed such a rift in the 30 odd years I've lived here. I see far greater differences between England and the rest of the EEC but then everyone knows that.
France, in a sweeping generalisation prefers to pretend that everyone is descended from the Gauls and actively refuses to develop official statistics concerning race/creed/... Because y'see making it illegal to ask for someone's race/creed on an official form make it impossible to discriminate agains Mr Ben Ali. Not having official stats does make it impossible for Mr Ben Ali to sue the government that his race/creed is insufficiently hired compared to their population stats, like minorities in the USA are able to do.
Snowden is a refugee by choice & if the general level of his defenders are zealots such as yourself, no one will care whether he ends up in a Venezuelan police state or in a US prison. I had assumed that you cared whether his endgame was this depressing, but apparently that is not the case.
Oh I recognize that Snowden is a refugee. It is your interpretation of this as being entirely the USG's fault with him playing the part of the noble blameless whistle blower that is the problem. Your voluntary ignorance of other facts is a sign of zealotry that makes your arguments fit only for preaching to those that already hold your positions. You could just as coherently argue about the sacrifices Mandela or Charles Manson suffer(ed) without convincing anyone.
What is this life that Snowden gave up? Is it the same life he decided he didn't want to have when he went fishing for a job at Booz knowing that he wanted it just to get info he could expose? How is it a renouncement when he never intended on following through? Is this a fact that you are ignoring because it weakens your position?
Are you so set in your opinions that any/all questioning automatically shuts down your reasoning so that you put quotes around words to avoid thinking about them? Again, good luck trying to convince anyone else that yours are not the extremist inflexible viewpoints with arguments like that.
That depends on who you ask. If you ask Assange he'll tell you that the freedom of the universe depends on everyone believing he is the one true prophet of freedom.
I'm sure North Korea is willing to welcome you for a life long stay though. Try to send letters back if you can get them through the censors...
Morales, being the big fish in a small pond, likes to believe his own rants are the truth because he has removed everyone who disagrees with him.
He claims that his life was in danger? Well only if he believed that his divine right supersedes those of other countries. He does not get to enter other countries airspaces unless they want him to.
He believes that he he has a sovereign immunity wherever he goes & any time the whim comes upon him? Well, no he doesn't -- unless that was granted to him by the countries he wants to fly over & even that right is not unlimited as he so recently learned.
The only person threatening war was Morales when, after throwing his tantrum, didn't get to do as he pleased. Funny how you you try to throw that back onto the rest of the world.
You forgot to add the interesting point that France, the government complaining the loudest about US/UK spying on their population has been doing the exact same thing. As the Minister so eloquently put it: It's not illegal when we spy on our own citizens & everybody else, but HOW DARE THEY!!!
Very well put, extremely well put.
Funny that you impugn the judgement of someone else merely because he has a contrary opinion to yours...
Good luck trying to convince anyone else that yours are not the extremist inflexible viewpoints with arguments like that.
Nah, they let the US do it for them & then ask for results when they want them. Plausible deniability y'know...
Of course, doing a dumb word to word substitution from English into French & then back again will give a closer match to the original than a translation where one uses expressions that better convey the meaning. But hey, if mind you do not like Yoda you wish to speak, by all means, stick with the substitutions & ignore the snickering from those who actually speak both languages.
So, idiots are surprised from afar, are they? Google translate doesn't get the nuances right.
Seul un idiot pourrait être un tant soit peu surpris que tous les pays avancés espionnent leur populations.
Completely ridiculous. French politicians are soo afraid of the public that they voted global amnesty laws forgiving the whole lot of themselves for the corruption they used to finance their political parties -- without having most of them get voted out of office in the subsequent elections.
French politicians have coined phrases like "I was responsible for the deaths of hundreds in continuing to use contaminated blood, but I'm not guily of breaking any laws".
Only the ignorant believe that politics in France is any different than anywhere else.
Of course, neatly overstepping the revelations from kruschev's diary & other sources that other "madmen" just as careless of human lives but dedicated to the extermination of democracy & this free speech we enjoy on the other side.
Thus, trust, but verify, which has serves us all well.
In complete agreement here.
The major success of the Cold War was the avoidance of a nuclear war. This came about in large part because both sides had good information on the other's forces & equipment. Not just because we signed treaties but because we were checking on each other.
The key phrase was: Trust, but verify. Even with allies, trust but verify avoids surprises.
Had Apple tried to patent eSATAp, you'd have a point. As eSATAp != USB/SD, you're making noise but no sense.