Yes, America has the worst military in the world. Except for all the others.
Anyway, see this: military force is one part of how America deals with the world.
For example, we bottled up the Russians so they could stew in their socialist juices until Lenin's inhuman, brutal, vicious form of government finally collapsed on itself.
As for the Europeans, well, I don't rate them at all. They long ago decided to hide behind the American aegis and spend their money on social welfare programs. I mean, if you belong to a continent whose recent contribution to world history has been a couple of suicidal collectivist ideologies, a couple of world wars, and an attempted genocide or two, you're going to spend a while licking your wounds and hanging your head in shame.
Thus, at the end of the 20th century, America had to intervene in the Balkans to put down another European attempt at genocide - the Europeans, for reasons of weakness, venality, and history did nothing but watch it happen.
As for invading a western country of decent size, well, taking France would only require us to learn German.
Look, throwing a Marxist, America-hating e-rag in my face is not an argument. It's more of a statement about where you stand in terms of sucking down propaganda.
The European Space Agency (ESA) said in a statement that an agreement had been reached among its member states which finalised the conditions for their participation in the project.
"The European Space Agency is now able to finalise the conditions for participation in the Galileo navigation program and to approve the Galileo joint undertaking foundation act to be soon signed by ESA and the European Union," ESA's statement said.
"Now able to finalize the conditions for participation"? Sounds to me like scheduling a meeting to discuss the meeting where they finalize the agenda items to be discussed in the main meeting.
The U.S. doesn't really give a damn about the rest of the world, just that part of it which crashes airplanes into our skyscrapers.
If France, sorry, the EU wants its copy of GPS, the U.S. will be ine with it. Until it's used to attack the U.S. At that point, it will cease to exist.
How difficult would it be for a business/government/individual to spray a mist of these as you enter a building, pass through an intersection, etc., and then use sensors to track your movements.
I mean, I could see a company tagging people as they enter corporate offices in order to track them through the day.
Kind of sad that Adm. Hopper is dead...
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Sheila: Time's have changed Our kids are kids are getting worse They wont obey their parents They just want to fart and curse! Sharon: Should we blame the government? Liane: Or blame society? Dads: Or should we blame the images on TV? Sheila: No, blame Canada Everyone: Blame Canada Sheila: With all their beady little eyes And flappin heads so full of lies Everyone: Blame Canada Blame Canada Sheila: We need to form a full assault Everyone: It's Canadas fault! Sharon: Don't blame me For my son Stan He saw the darn cartoon And now he's off to join the Klan! Liane: And my boy Eric once Had my picture on his shelf But now when I see him he tells me to fuck myself! Sheila: Well, blame Canada Everyone: Blame Canada It seems that everythings gone wrong Since Canada came along Everyone: Blame Canada Blame Canada Some Guy: There not even a real country anyway Ms. McCormick: My son could've been a doctor or a lawyer it's true Instead he burned up like a piggy on a barbecue Everyone: Should we blame the matches? Should we blame the fire? Or the doctors who allowed him to expire? Sheila: Heck no! Everyone: Blame Canada Blame Canada Sheila: With all their hockey hubbabaloo Liane: And that bitch Anne Murray too Everyone: Blame Canada Shame on Canada The smut we must stop The trash we must smash Laughter and fun must all be undone We must blame them and cause a fuss Before someone thinks of blaming uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus
I can upload/download to/from Earthlink at about 1 MBps through my DSL modem.
I've got a number of machines - laptops and desktops - but I don't really don't do any local file sharing, it's all about internet access. In other words, a step down from 11 MBps to 1 MBps.
So, I've currently got all the wired and wireless access I can reasonably use.
Although it's always risky to argue from analogy, think of the current internet as the world prior to the arrival of the nation state. No borders, as such, freedom to go wherever, little control.
The internet, as stateless entity, is dying, and being replaced by the internet as a paid-for, regulated utility.
For example, if the U.S bans spam, the spammers can move offshore. All that's happened is that the spammers have moved to a place where the same regulations don't apply. What'll happen? Probably somthing like the ITU, where nations get together and agree on standards for sending information, and then establish tarrifs.
Basically, the day is rapidly approaching when the internet will be like the current telephone or snail mail networks. Actually, it'll probably subsume them, and adopt most of their regulations. Then you'll have a collection of national intranets, with the internet being the scheme which negotiates communication among them.
I started hacking on a CompuKit UK101, an Acorn Atom, and a Jupiter Ace. I.E., I've been doing it for a long time, mosly for love.
I've met any number of Indian graduates who say that their high school scores indicated a future in political science, but they did CompSci to make money. Losers, mostly. I'd never hire them. And I'd recommend the Microsoft interview as a way to keep them from fscking you up.
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Yes, America has the worst military in the world. Except for all the others.
Anyway, see this: military force is one part of how America deals with the world.
For example, we bottled up the Russians so they could stew in their socialist juices until Lenin's inhuman, brutal, vicious form of government finally collapsed on itself.
As for the Europeans, well, I don't rate them at all. They long ago decided to hide behind the American aegis and spend their money on social welfare programs. I mean, if you belong to a continent whose recent contribution to world history has been a couple of suicidal collectivist ideologies, a couple of world wars, and an attempted genocide or two, you're going to spend a while licking your wounds and hanging your head in shame.
Thus, at the end of the 20th century, America had to intervene in the Balkans to put down another European attempt at genocide - the Europeans, for reasons of weakness, venality, and history did nothing but watch it happen.
As for invading a western country of decent size, well, taking France would only require us to learn German.
That was Afghanistan.
Iraq gave support to al Qaeda, as Iran and Syria are doing now. (And yes, before you ask, they're next on the list. Iran first, I think.)
Oh, and BTW, the U.S. long ago established that it would not blame an entire people for the acts of a minority. Germany, remember?
As for loving to kill, we're actually beyond that. We're now to the point of actively minimizing casualties on all sides.
Look, throwing a Marxist, America-hating e-rag in my face is not an argument. It's more of a statement about where you stand in terms of sucking down propaganda.
As for Saudi Arabia, it's time will come.
By Osama bin Ladin and hiw fantasy ideology.
Among other things, the article notes:
The European Space Agency (ESA) said in a statement that an agreement had been reached among its member states which finalised the conditions for their participation in the project.
"The European Space Agency is now able to finalise the conditions for participation in the Galileo navigation program and to approve the Galileo joint undertaking foundation act to be soon signed by ESA and the European Union," ESA's statement said.
"Now able to finalize the conditions for participation"? Sounds to me like scheduling a meeting to discuss the meeting where they finalize the agenda items to be discussed in the main meeting.
Good luck to them, but I doubt they'll succeed.
The U.S. doesn't really give a damn about the rest of the world, just that part of it which crashes airplanes into our skyscrapers.
If France, sorry, the EU wants its copy of GPS, the U.S. will be ine with it. Until it's used to attack the U.S. At that point, it will cease to exist.
BTW, have you read UN Resolution 1483?
Hoe is audio sequencing going to improve anything for a drunken robot?
Oh, wait, remembering my own drunken ramblings, this makes a lot of sense.
How difficult would it be for a business/government/individual to spray a mist of these as you enter a building, pass through an intersection, etc., and then use sensors to track your movements.
I mean, I could see a company tagging people as they enter corporate offices in order to track them through the day.
I think she'd kind of grasp the irony.
Sheila: Time's have changed
Our kids are kids are getting worse
They wont obey their parents
They just want to fart and curse!
Sharon: Should we blame the government?
Liane: Or blame society?
Dads: Or should we blame the images on TV?
Sheila: No, blame Canada
Everyone: Blame Canada
Sheila: With all their beady little eyes
And flappin heads so full of lies
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
Sheila: We need to form a full assault
Everyone: It's Canadas fault!
Sharon: Don't blame me
For my son Stan
He saw the darn cartoon
And now he's off to join the Klan!
Liane: And my boy Eric once
Had my picture on his shelf
But now when I see him he tells me to fuck myself!
Sheila: Well, blame Canada
Everyone: Blame Canada
It seems that everythings gone wrong
Since Canada came along
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
Some Guy: There not even a real country anyway
Ms. McCormick: My son could've been a doctor or a lawyer it's true
Instead he burned up like a piggy on a barbecue
Everyone: Should we blame the matches?
Should we blame the fire?
Or the doctors who allowed him to expire?
Sheila: Heck no!
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
Sheila: With all their hockey hubbabaloo
Liane: And that bitch Anne Murray too
Everyone: Blame Canada
Shame on Canada
The smut we must stop
The trash we must smash
Laughter and fun
must all be undone
We must blame them and cause a fuss
Before someone thinks of blaming uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus
What you really need to do is figure out how to use a 455 cubic inch 8 cylinder high power engine to flocculate your wort....
A spelling quibble.
You poor sod!
Those warts on your dick aren't gonna go away/
Unless.....
Still cool, naked, and watching BASEketball.
Or is it BaseketBall?
Or BaseKetBall?
You tell me...
And your comments are, what?, judgmental? (Note spelling (yes, I am having fun)).
And I'm clueless, naked, and watching BASEketball! Woo hoo!
"If you will it, it is not a dream. Theodore Hertzl, Dude."
I can upload/download to/from Earthlink at about 1 MBps through my DSL modem.
I've got a number of machines - laptops and desktops - but I don't really don't do any local file sharing, it's all about internet access. In other words, a step down from 11 MBps to 1 MBps.
So, I've currently got all the wired and wireless access I can reasonably use.
No whining here
Skinner: Damn...they're very slowly getting away!
From: pczc@mindspring.com
//ignore interrupted exceptions - no vanity here...
To: my_aibo@mindspring.com
Subject: Unknown person in the kitchen
while (unknown.stillStanding()) {
unknown.humpLeg();
try {
Thread.sleep(60000);
} catch (Exception e) {
;
}
unknown.evaluate()
}
Reminds of something from (I think) Groucho Marx:
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
To take your comments one-by-one:
- Laws have jurisdictions, and we don't have a world government. Figure out the rest.
- Well, I do take the point thatr love of money is the root of all evil, but people won't work for free.
- Yesterday is a foreign country. They do things differently there.
- The internet is not dying. It's changing.
Although it's always risky to argue from analogy, think of the current internet as the world prior to the arrival of the nation state. No borders, as such, freedom to go wherever, little control.
The internet, as stateless entity, is dying, and being replaced by the internet as a paid-for, regulated utility.
For example, if the U.S bans spam, the spammers can move offshore. All that's happened is that the spammers have moved to a place where the same regulations don't apply. What'll happen? Probably somthing like the ITU, where nations get together and agree on standards for sending information, and then establish tarrifs.
Basically, the day is rapidly approaching when the internet will be like the current telephone or snail mail networks. Actually, it'll probably subsume them, and adopt most of their regulations. Then you'll have a collection of national intranets, with the internet being the scheme which negotiates communication among them.
...he's forcing improvements in Java.
The people not hired to service homeland security webcams will be hired to service challenge/response programs for all the major spammers.
Isn't it wild that instead of computers serving us, we're being hired to serve them?
I started hacking on a CompuKit UK101, an Acorn Atom, and a Jupiter Ace. I.E., I've been doing it for a long time, mosly for love.
I've met any number of Indian graduates who say that their high school scores indicated a future in political science, but they did CompSci to make money. Losers, mostly. I'd never hire them. And I'd recommend the Microsoft interview as a way to keep them from fscking you up.
Pat
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