China could do that, but it would be tantamount to economic suicide for them. You see, we are China's biggest importer. If we stop buying Chinese goods because we can't afford to anymore, they'd be stuck with trillions of dollars worth of worthless trinkets. Not to mention, the yuan is heavily pegged to the US dollar, so as falls the USD, so falls the CY. They could stop the hemorrhaging by pegging the yuan to the Euro, or by floating it on the FOREX markets, but neither of those would happen overnight. In the meantime, their burgeoning middle class would quickly revert to peasant status, along with the other 1.2 billion Chinese. I seriously doubt China would risk all that for Burma (though they almost certainly would if we got serious on Tibet, or put up a fight to keep them out of Taiwan).
Check out my latest journal entry. I've posted an email exchange I had with Taco about this. According to him, there's nothing to see here, we should all move along.
If there's one thing bad 70's TV taught me, it's that a pissed off Buddhist monk is NOT to be trifled with. The Burmese military doesn't know what it's in for.
So you think the downfall of our great nation began less than 10 years ago? You have a pretty short memory, my friend.
Google "Wilson imperial presidency" for a start, then check "Roosevelt court packing" for further examples of Presidential abuses of power. And that's just two in the last century, though to be fair Presidents in the 19th century were regarded as no where near as important as they are now.
You can go back even farther, how in the world did Congress ever allow this bill to become law anyway? I believe your signature answers this question for you.
This raises an interesting question: if the President and members of Congress take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, and they pass laws that are later found by a court to be unconstitutional, why is there no remedy available beyond striking the law (or at least the infringing parts of it) from the books? I know that by now, there is over 200 years of precedent saying that nothing actually happens, but it makes me wonder why someone didn't stand up and demand accountability after the Supreme Court heard Marbury v. Madison? Given the politics of the time, when sitting Vice Presidents could kill former Treasury Secretaries in duels and get away with it, it certainly wasn't out of any kind of politeness or unwillingness to be confrontational. Anyone have any insights?
The same thing has been happening to me. I've gone from Excellent karma to Positive in just a few months. Just today, I had five negative moderations in just a few minutes. I emailed CmdrTaco about it and asked him to look into it, he promised that he would. Hopefully they'll put something in place to stop the abuse of the moderation system before it gets truly out of hand (assuming it hasn't already). I'd hate to see Slashdot devolve to be more and more like Digg.
I wonder, did that research control for women who try to emulate asshole men? More than likely, those are the ones who get labeled "bitch", as opposed to the women who just act like one of the guys and subsequently earn respect and admiration.
Considering how thin the Martian atmosphere is, and how much radiation from the Sun and cosmic waves get through it, I don't think anything over there has to worry about plutonium inside a rover.
I work in bizdev at an IT services firm (I used to be a sysadmin, but needed some new challenges and a job that had nearly unlimited earning potential). My boss and I wanted to start targeting SCO's customers to switch them all over to Linux and provide support to them. The only problem: all of the customers that SCO lists on their site are either out of business, or have obviously switched over to Linux already, or are in far away countries where we don't have a presence. It's damn near impossible to find anyone still running any of their software, my guess is Novell and/or RedHat made the same overtures we were planning on doing, but much sooner than we did.
"The corporation did it" is a common defense It's not one that worked out too well for the Enron boys (most of the higher ups are either in prison, or dead), I don't think it'll work out any better for the SCO crowd.
The DOD spends approximately $200 Million dollars a *day* maintaining this empire. Imagine what could be done if even half that budget was cut and the money returned to the tax payers. $36.5 billion would go a long way to keeping the economy afloat just a bit longer. Maybe the anti-war types need to change their slogan from "US out of Iraq now" to "US out of EVERYWHERE now"?
Not very many Americans are killed by nuclear bombs. I think the goal is to keep it that way.
Well DUH! Our military being in Iraq might have been a subtle clue, eh? Some more subtle clues would be bin Laden's fatwas and 9/11.
We should treat terrorism the same as we treat any other organized criminal enterprise. Except that radical Islamic jihad* is not a "criminal enterprise", it's a collection of religious fanatics bent on waging war until either we're dead, or converted, or both. It might not be a war between nation states, but it has much more in common with past wars than with things like fighting the Mafia. You ain't gonna get bin Laden on income tax evasion.
* Calling it a war on terror makes as much sense as calling WWII a "war on V2s and kamikazis" instead of a war on Nazi Germany and Imperialist Japan. Terror is a tactic, not a group.
And if you read the Bill of Rights, it doesn't have any provisions limiting it to apply only to Americans. You say that as if you've read the thing, when it's obvious from your conclusion you've done no such thing. Go look it up and count how many times the phrase "the people" is used, then ask yourself: who are these "people" they keep writing about?
Ultimately, it's really a moral question. Trying to equate it to economics merely gets in the way. Yes, because capital investments into a company's infrastructure coupled with governmental regulations interfering with ROI from those investments have nothing to do with economics.
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China could do that, but it would be tantamount to economic suicide for them. You see, we are China's biggest importer. If we stop buying Chinese goods because we can't afford to anymore, they'd be stuck with trillions of dollars worth of worthless trinkets. Not to mention, the yuan is heavily pegged to the US dollar, so as falls the USD, so falls the CY. They could stop the hemorrhaging by pegging the yuan to the Euro, or by floating it on the FOREX markets, but neither of those would happen overnight. In the meantime, their burgeoning middle class would quickly revert to peasant status, along with the other 1.2 billion Chinese. I seriously doubt China would risk all that for Burma (though they almost certainly would if we got serious on Tibet, or put up a fight to keep them out of Taiwan).
Oh dear god, please don't let anyone show up in a goatse costume!
(Just joking, your English is miles ahead of my German.)
Check out my latest journal entry. I've posted an email exchange I had with Taco about this. According to him, there's nothing to see here, we should all move along.
If there's one thing bad 70's TV taught me, it's that a pissed off Buddhist monk is NOT to be trifled with. The Burmese military doesn't know what it's in for.
So you think the downfall of our great nation began less than 10 years ago? You have a pretty short memory, my friend.
Google "Wilson imperial presidency" for a start, then check "Roosevelt court packing" for further examples of Presidential abuses of power. And that's just two in the last century, though to be fair Presidents in the 19th century were regarded as no where near as important as they are now.
This raises an interesting question: if the President and members of Congress take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, and they pass laws that are later found by a court to be unconstitutional, why is there no remedy available beyond striking the law (or at least the infringing parts of it) from the books? I know that by now, there is over 200 years of precedent saying that nothing actually happens, but it makes me wonder why someone didn't stand up and demand accountability after the Supreme Court heard Marbury v. Madison ? Given the politics of the time, when sitting Vice Presidents could kill former Treasury Secretaries in duels and get away with it, it certainly wasn't out of any kind of politeness or unwillingness to be confrontational. Anyone have any insights?
The same thing has been happening to me. I've gone from Excellent karma to Positive in just a few months. Just today, I had five negative moderations in just a few minutes. I emailed CmdrTaco about it and asked him to look into it, he promised that he would. Hopefully they'll put something in place to stop the abuse of the moderation system before it gets truly out of hand (assuming it hasn't already). I'd hate to see Slashdot devolve to be more and more like Digg.
They did not use codes for a lot of the communications. They drafted Cherokee indians instead.
First off, they did use codes. Second, you misspelled "Navaho".
(Comanche and Choctaw speakers were used, too, but not Cherokee.)
I wonder, did that research control for women who try to emulate asshole men? More than likely, those are the ones who get labeled "bitch", as opposed to the women who just act like one of the guys and subsequently earn respect and admiration.
Well, that's one way to get rid of trolls, I guess. There's always a silver lining!
Considering how thin the Martian atmosphere is, and how much radiation from the Sun and cosmic waves get through it, I don't think anything over there has to worry about plutonium inside a rover.
I work in bizdev at an IT services firm (I used to be a sysadmin, but needed some new challenges and a job that had nearly unlimited earning potential). My boss and I wanted to start targeting SCO's customers to switch them all over to Linux and provide support to them. The only problem: all of the customers that SCO lists on their site are either out of business, or have obviously switched over to Linux already, or are in far away countries where we don't have a presence. It's damn near impossible to find anyone still running any of their software, my guess is Novell and/or RedHat made the same overtures we were planning on doing, but much sooner than we did.
I'll leave aside the obvious WWI and II references, even though those events in Germany definitely effected people in the States.
* Calling it a war on terror makes as much sense as calling WWII a "war on V2s and kamikazis" instead of a war on Nazi Germany and Imperialist Japan. Terror is a tactic, not a group.
Hint: they ain't Pakistani.
Not to mention the more recent discovery of this fact by texters world wide.
You forgot the most important one: Do not taunt iPhone.