Benevolent? How? The US gives less foreign aid per capita than Italy (Source: UN Foreign Aid Report 2000). It is THE major exporter of small arms to the rest of the world (no matter that those weapons are AKs. The US gives the money to buy them). It has fomented various right-wing dictators' careers, financed silly forays into wars of independence against said dictators, turned its back on genocide not once but twice in the last 15 years. You can go on and on. Yes, the US was crucial in defeating Fascism, had a bit do with defeating Stalinism (the folks actually in those countries had some hard work to do, no?), but you can't rest on your laurels. As a matter of fact, the truly 'good' should never claim any laurels in the first place.
You friends become your enemies in an instant when they think they can get away with it.
Which is exactly the sort of exasperating narrow-minded world view that causes the US (esp. under Bush) to be so loathed. People are not "jealous" of the US nor do they "hate us because we are free." They really don't like to wake up everyday knowing that this huge country across the ocean will have an impact in their life that they can't control, and, in most cases, the very citizens of that huge country experience far less intrusion into their lives by the US government/economic machine than say a place like Haiti or, gulp, France.
The alternate reading of this GPS/Galileo dustup is that Europe must be jammed eventually, because. eventually, the US will have to attack Europe, or at least, have the contingency plans in place. The inability to jam any sort of guidance systems would put a hairy wrinkle into any war gaming that the NDU/War Colleges are doing/will do. If you think the US doesn't war game or model on invasions of Western Europe, you've got another thing coming.
But I forget, Oceania has always been at war with East Asia
No. Not military. I could never pass one of their requirements that deals with "unit cohesion." Besides, I never said I was an expert. That's near impossible, but let's just say this: all the white dudes who would end sentences with ne when I was in Sapporo would immediately get pegged as Anime watching wackoffs. Why? Only women and children do this. I am a yo man myself, but I do conjugate suru. Still, I am no Toshiro Mifune, that's for sure.
I don't think I have been watching the wrong bit of Anime as my cow-orkers have 1000s of hours of this shit and pop it into the office DVD player at every chance. Just a short dip into the brantub comes up sticky, if you know what I mean. But you are right, the short series is cool. Maybe this is what attracts some people to shows like '24' that have different approach to their very manner of presentation.
What is so special about Anime? Personally, I find it boring at best and downright turgid/dumb at times. Utterly incomprehensible plots, bad character development, obviously bad translations (I speak Japanese -- don't ask, not my choice, it happened because of a job), etc. A lot of the GUYS I work with are obsessed with it (let's just say that Master and Commander was breath of fresh air -- they hadn't read them and I had.). Is there anything about it other than the obvious I-wanna-shag-Asian-chicks(girls) thing? Or what about the Alien Tentacle Rape stuff? Just fucking disturbing. I just do not get it.
Bullshit. I, for one, welcome our new Northern overlords. As a regular Slashdotter, I am ready to help round others up so they can work in Toronto suburbs clearing snow all winter!
Who is bankrolling the campaign? How does a company, dare I say, with no visible means of support come up with the scratch? Venture capital? Dunning the sorority girls in Massey Hall? Dollar a piece so you can have your Christina Arugula, girls? I just don't see how they do it?
Illegitimate ?:
BTW, is it just me or is Kazaa's boss a stone-cold hottie?
So are they UCI approved? I know there is a lower limit on weight for road cycling (6.5kg I think) but giving the UCI's penchant for making weird rules they might not allow rad drivetrains and all. IIRC, the derailleur was illegal until 1977 on the Tour (Tour rules didn't allow them). Also, downhilling is the domain of people who would be considered suicidal if no such thing existed.
The aft system contains a rear hub which houses the cassette assembly, providing up to 9 different gearing ratios
My Airborne Zeppelin is all Campy and a 10-speed on the rear sprocket. Combined with a triple up front this is 30 effective gears (and ratios). Shimano is not the only thing on the planet and certainly not the best.
IANAMTBR (I am not a mountain biker) but those I-drive bottom bracket systems are pieces of shite. Sure they are very adjustible, yada, yada, but when you are 30 miles from fuck-all and it gives up the ghost you'll wish you had a tough-as-nails XTR bottom bracket. Simple is beautiful on a bicycle. That's why I like them. I hope it is light! If it isn't then you are not going to sell this stuff, ever.
Personally, I am waiting for the Campy/Shimano electric shifts to get cheap enough.
I'd use FreeBSD first. Gentoo is OK but I do all kinds of snmp development where I set up a box that gets put on a network segment and does 'things.' Then after it is declared stable, I mirror it (kinda). Gentoo takes WAAAAAAY too long to install. I need 1 hour as opposed to 1 day.
Look, I hate Debian. If given a choice, I'd use RedHat. Why? I don't like the fuddy-duddiness of Debian. The ARCANE management of the system scripts, etc. apt-get is OK, but if I want an arcane, conservative OS with leet pkg management, I use FreeBSD. But now, given the absolute shithead decision of RedHat to do the SCO/Caldera 'enterprise' thing -- read leech off Free Software developers -- I am going back to Debian for Linux solutions. The university I work at has a RedHat site 'license' so we will have package and all that support but you have to put your machine under the management of the Unix group. These guys won't even install traceroute on a machine. They are sooooooo conservative about machine layout. Root? Forget about it. They will create a sysmgr account with effective root, only because they can pull it at anytime. So off to Debian land and running 'unstable'....
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For a minute, I thought this was about some sort of 'rough trade' deal. I hesitated mightily before clicking on it in Evolution.
Benevolent? How? The US gives less foreign aid per capita than Italy (Source: UN Foreign Aid Report 2000). It is THE major exporter of small arms to the rest of the world (no matter that those weapons are AKs. The US gives the money to buy them). It has fomented various right-wing dictators' careers, financed silly forays into wars of independence against said dictators, turned its back on genocide not once but twice in the last 15 years. You can go on and on. Yes, the US was crucial in defeating Fascism, had a bit do with defeating Stalinism (the folks actually in those countries had some hard work to do, no?), but you can't rest on your laurels. As a matter of fact, the truly 'good' should never claim any laurels in the first place.
You friends become your enemies in an instant when they think they can get away with it.
Which is exactly the sort of exasperating narrow-minded world view that causes the US (esp. under Bush) to be so loathed. People are not "jealous" of the US nor do they "hate us because we are free." They really don't like to wake up everyday knowing that this huge country across the ocean will have an impact in their life that they can't control, and, in most cases, the very citizens of that huge country experience far less intrusion into their lives by the US government/economic machine than say a place like Haiti or, gulp, France.
The alternate reading of this GPS/Galileo dustup is that Europe must be jammed eventually, because. eventually, the US will have to attack Europe, or at least, have the contingency plans in place. The inability to jam any sort of guidance systems would put a hairy wrinkle into any war gaming that the NDU/War Colleges are doing/will do. If you think the US doesn't war game or model on invasions of Western Europe, you've got another thing coming.
But I forget, Oceania has always been at war with East Asia
That's more like:
United States Population: 283 Million
No. Not military. I could never pass one of their requirements that deals with "unit cohesion." Besides, I never said I was an expert. That's near impossible, but let's just say this: all the white dudes who would end sentences with ne when I was in Sapporo would immediately get pegged as Anime watching wackoffs. Why? Only women and children do this. I am a yo man myself, but I do conjugate suru. Still, I am no Toshiro Mifune, that's for sure.
Yeah, you can never forget the sheer magnitude of crap in the world. That's for the correction.
The Defense Language Institute is not a Berlitz course.
I don't think I have been watching the wrong bit of Anime as my cow-orkers have 1000s of hours of this shit and pop it into the office DVD player at every chance. Just a short dip into the brantub comes up sticky, if you know what I mean. But you are right, the short series is cool. Maybe this is what attracts some people to shows like '24' that have different approach to their very manner of presentation.
What is so special about Anime? Personally, I find it boring at best and downright turgid/dumb at times. Utterly incomprehensible plots, bad character development, obviously bad translations (I speak Japanese -- don't ask, not my choice, it happened because of a job), etc. A lot of the GUYS I work with are obsessed with it (let's just say that Master and Commander was breath of fresh air -- they hadn't read them and I had.). Is there anything about it other than the obvious I-wanna-shag-Asian-chicks(girls) thing? Or what about the Alien Tentacle Rape stuff? Just fucking disturbing. I just do not get it.
If you read this book, you'll eventually ask yourself, "Well, what exactly can you talk about?"
;-)
You haven't been reading your Derrida, my friend.
Give me 10000 motivated partisans, some AKs and mules-donkeys-horses and we'll kick your shitty ass out of our country time and time again.
Bullshit. I, for one, welcome our new Northern overlords. As a regular Slashdotter, I am ready to help round others up so they can work in Toronto suburbs clearing snow all winter!
Who is bankrolling the campaign? How does a company, dare I say, with no visible means of support come up with the scratch? Venture capital? Dunning the sorority girls in Massey Hall? Dollar a piece so you can have your Christina Arugula, girls? I just don't see how they do it?
Illegitimate ?:
BTW, is it just me or is Kazaa's boss a stone-cold hottie?
STEWIE: What the deuce are you looking at? It is a tuna fish sandwich and nothing else.
Cannon retracts into tuna fish sandwich
I love the kid. No evil, just differently motivated.
Well, old George is soooooooo adept with Spanish, I'd figure he could pick this up in 10 minutes.
I feel all dirty and nerd-like for posting this.
Then you have reached Total Slashdot Awareness.
The Slashdottva vow:
I will not stop accept my own dirty nerdness until all other Slashdotters have become aware of their dirty nerdness.
George Bush is already using this with Tony Blair. Interesting thing is that each whistled pattern ends with "Here, Boy!"
Only the Saeco domestiques were testing them. They still have bugs that no team leader would dare run "in production."
So are they UCI approved? I know there is a lower limit on weight for road cycling (6.5kg I think) but giving the UCI's penchant for making weird rules they might not allow rad drivetrains and all. IIRC, the derailleur was illegal until 1977 on the Tour (Tour rules didn't allow them). Also, downhilling is the domain of people who would be considered suicidal if no such thing existed.
The aft system contains a rear hub which houses the cassette assembly, providing up to 9 different gearing ratios
My Airborne Zeppelin is all Campy and a 10-speed on the rear sprocket. Combined with a triple up front this is 30 effective gears (and ratios). Shimano is not the only thing on the planet and certainly not the best.
IANAMTBR (I am not a mountain biker) but those I-drive bottom bracket systems are pieces of shite. Sure they are very adjustible, yada, yada, but when you are 30 miles from fuck-all and it gives up the ghost you'll wish you had a tough-as-nails XTR bottom bracket. Simple is beautiful on a bicycle. That's why I like them. I hope it is light! If it isn't then you are not going to sell this stuff, ever.
Personally, I am waiting for the Campy/Shimano electric shifts to get cheap enough.
Intent to commit fraud or conspiracy to commit fraud. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
Cigani! Juris!
I'd use FreeBSD first. Gentoo is OK but I do all kinds of snmp development where I set up a box that gets put on a network segment and does 'things.' Then after it is declared stable, I mirror it (kinda). Gentoo takes WAAAAAAY too long to install. I need 1 hour as opposed to 1 day.
Look, I hate Debian. If given a choice, I'd use RedHat. Why? I don't like the fuddy-duddiness of Debian. The ARCANE management of the system scripts, etc. apt-get is OK, but if I want an arcane, conservative OS with leet pkg management, I use FreeBSD. But now, given the absolute shithead decision of RedHat to do the SCO/Caldera 'enterprise' thing -- read leech off Free Software developers -- I am going back to Debian for Linux solutions. The university I work at has a RedHat site 'license' so we will have package and all that support but you have to put your machine under the management of the Unix group. These guys won't even install traceroute on a machine. They are sooooooo conservative about machine layout. Root? Forget about it. They will create a sysmgr account with effective root, only because they can pull it at anytime. So off to Debian land and running 'unstable'....