The Eurocrats in Brussels never give up. If at first you don't succeed, scare, scare, scare.
I mean, look at Ireland and the Nice Treaty. Rejected first time round, the Government then sponsored a scare campaign in its favor and had a revote. You may bet your bottom dollar that now they've approved the Nice Treaty, the ignorant masses will never be asked another opinion.
When the Long Room was built, just about the only stipulation was that it be longer than a similar library at Cambridge University in England.
And it is, by a few feet.
Incidentally, the libaray is on the second floor of the building, to protect the books. You see, Trinity was built in the flood plain of the Liffey. Many of the original Trinity buildings literally sank from view because of inadequate drainage.
Yesterday I read an article in the Seattle P-I about how global warming is making it possible to use the Northwest passage for commercial purposes during certain months of the year.
You know: shorter voyages, less diesel burned, less pollution, falling amounts of carbon in the air, colder climate, northwest passage not navigable, longer voyages, more diesel burned, more pollution, rising amounts....
Back in the days of yore, when the world was still mostly in black and white, and strange man-eating beasts wandered the land, a small British company brought out a cute little computer called the Jupiter Ace.
It was basically a Sinclair ZX-80, but with Forth in ROM, instead of BASIC. It was a fun little thing to play with.
I may still have mine in a box in the attic. Must go check.
To your first paragraph: there's a lot of "Hate America First" liberal academics doing just what you claim to be afraid of doing.
To your second paragrsph: America may have made mistakes, but America has done more to improve the world than any other country in history. Bar none. What's actually happening is that foreign kleptocracies pump out anti-Amrican propaganda to keep their masses distracted. Apparently, more suggestible Americans are also susceptible.
I'm just aware that there are 700 million people out there who are seething with jealous rage and want me, personally, dead. I'm going to act appropriately.
Don't you understand that the best way to fight these grim, bronze-age moralists is to laugh?
Don't you understand that the perfect answer to Osama is Madonna's butt in your face on a 63" projection TV?
Speaking of Osama, don't you understand that radical Islam managed to wage a war that lasted less than 90 minutes, beginning at the WTC and ending in a field in Pennsylvania? Not the shortest war in history, but pretty short nonetheless.
As far as I'm concerned, the proper way to remember 9/11 is to do what Americans do best: PARTY!
Osama, rotting in his grave, will never forgive us.
Sorry if this is a bit incoherent, but you hit a little nerve.
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The Eurocrats in Brussels never give up. If at first you don't succeed, scare, scare, scare.
I mean, look at Ireland and the Nice Treaty. Rejected first time round, the Government then sponsored a scare campaign in its favor and had a revote. You may bet your bottom dollar that now they've approved the Nice Treaty, the ignorant masses will never be asked another opinion.
This law will eventually be the law of Europe.
I mean, if NASA is going to put out documentaries like "Capricorn One", how can we do anything else but wonder about them?
...then the answers were actually written by Oscar Wilde.
When the Long Room was built, just about the only stipulation was that it be longer than a similar library at Cambridge University in England.
And it is, by a few feet.
Incidentally, the libaray is on the second floor of the building, to protect the books. You see, Trinity was built in the flood plain of the Liffey. Many of the original Trinity buildings literally sank from view because of inadequate drainage.
Yesterday I read an article in the Seattle P-I about how global warming is making it possible to use the Northwest passage for commercial purposes during certain months of the year.
You know: shorter voyages, less diesel burned, less pollution, falling amounts of carbon in the air, colder climate, northwest passage not navigable, longer voyages, more diesel burned, more pollution, rising amounts....
Pat
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"Turn, turn, turn..."
Back in the days of yore, when the world was still mostly in black and white, and strange man-eating beasts wandered the land, a small British company brought out a cute little computer called the Jupiter Ace.
It was basically a Sinclair ZX-80, but with Forth in ROM, instead of BASIC. It was a fun little thing to play with.
I may still have mine in a box in the attic. Must go check.
I think IBM Global Services was doing some work in this area. I guess the estimate was too much, even for the Vatican.
I haven't finished tiling my office with AOL CDs.
When I saw you could get these for $150 at CompUSA (after all the rebates), that was the first thought in my head.
Mind you, I didn't go there for lack of cash, but I did get two to set up a RAID configuration so my video editing would flyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
To your first paragraph: there's a lot of "Hate America First" liberal academics doing just what you claim to be afraid of doing.
To your second paragrsph: America may have made mistakes, but America has done more to improve the world than any other country in history. Bar none. What's actually happening is that foreign kleptocracies pump out anti-Amrican propaganda to keep their masses distracted. Apparently, more suggestible Americans are also susceptible.
To your third paragraph: I'm well-informed.
That wasn't an explanation. That was an knee-jerk accusation masquerading as wisdom.
Go back to your Chmosky.
He didn't become a pot smoking (but not inhaling), draft dodging rapist who organized pro-communist teach-ins from the safety of Oxford.
I've heard that slander.
Another fact-free moron heard from.
It may have escaped your notice, but we're at war.
In such circumstances, the Constitution gets suspended so it can't be used against us.
As soon as we've established freedom in the Arab world, we'll go back to where we were.
...know what's good for others. To prove it, we've been living the good life for quite some time.
As for oil, we pay for it.
As for internation courts, well, let me just point out that Libya is now, with French connivance, heading up the U.N Commission on Human Rights.
Totalitarianism is in the hands that have always held it, and people like you are the silent co-conspirators.
Go ahead, tell me.
I'm fairly sure that the President was a fighter pilot.
The rest of your comment is equally fact-free.
I seem to remember that we
-- Intervened in Serbia to prevent another European genocide
-- Intervened in Somalia to relieve a self-inflicted famine
-- Intervened in Vietnam to stop the spread of Communism
-- Intervened in Iraq to stop a local Hitler
You know what? I'm not too terribly interested in finding forgiveness for myself in hearts that object to these interventions.
I'm just aware that there are 700 million people out there who are seething with jealous rage and want me, personally, dead. I'm going to act appropriately.
"...I accidentally voted for him three times!"
- Average Dade County Voter
Take a chill pill, dude!
Don't you understand that the best way to fight these grim, bronze-age moralists is to laugh?
Don't you understand that the perfect answer to Osama is Madonna's butt in your face on a 63" projection TV?
Speaking of Osama, don't you understand that radical Islam managed to wage a war that lasted less than 90 minutes, beginning at the WTC and ending in a field in Pennsylvania? Not the shortest war in history, but pretty short nonetheless.
As far as I'm concerned, the proper way to remember 9/11 is to do what Americans do best: PARTY!
Osama, rotting in his grave, will never forgive us.
Sorry if this is a bit incoherent, but you hit a little nerve.
Asimov did a nice little introduction to Physics. I found it quite readable.
Probably a CIA plot to make the Chinese, Brazilians, and Sub-Saharan Africans look bad, right?
You know, like what's described here
Broken robot => broken chips