China has a spare capacity of boys because families would rather have boy-children than girl-children. Couple that with the state-mandated birth quotas...I'll leave it to you to google what happens to the girl children.
I think this is a pretty ghastly process.
J'aime beaucoup les Francais.
I'm a little annoyed with just about every major government on the planet, but I've got no issues whatsoever with the various peoples thereof. Humans are cool.
I think that the US is not imperialistic in any meaningful way, and I think that impugning the US as imperialistic when one is operating colonies is absurd and dishonest.
It's not a question of running out of space, it's a question of what to do with all those boys who can't find wives and start families. It's going to be an interesting thing to watch. Glad there's a big ocean between me and them.
"btw, as you probably know, it has been suggested that the Bush administration went to Iraq to prevent China from gaining too much influence in the middle east. If anything causes trouble it will be China's energy appetite in the future, I'd say."
That's an interesting hypothesis, and you might be on to something.
Now, just in case you're curious, I think that Bush's Iraq adventure is stupid. I also think that America has been called "Imperialist" for much longer than Bush's term in office. I think the label is silly.
And yes, I did forget the Dutch. And the Portuguese and the Spanish. Mostly because those countries aren't whining about how imperialist America is.
France is the worst offendor: They STILL HAVE colonies, and they have the audacity to call American imperialism bad.
Hogwash.
Of course it's about protecting commercial interests...that's the only game! Countries have gone to war to protect their economic interest for as long as there have been economies. This is not an American innovation. The American innovation is to allow foreign, sometimes hostile, governments control vital strategic resource stockpiles.
Considering the extra population of young Chinese boys, I will be very surprised if China didn't go on some serious imperialistic adventures sometime in the next 15 years.
If the world thinks America is imperialist (an idea I find absolutely silly, coming from the France, Britain, and Germany) they're in for a fun surprise when China decides to play.
What "rule of free trade" within the European Union is that, exactly?
My guess is that you mean Apple won't pay your VAT for you...
iTunes scratched an itch I didn't even know I had. The database-driven music organization is THE killer feature, and I've never seen another music player that implements it half so well. iTunes is peerless in that regard.
If the Zen Micro is so undisputably better, the Creative won't have any trouble taking away market share from Apple.
Now that Apple has vastly (vastly!) expanded the market for high-capacity MP3 players, they've paved the way for other competitors to work in those markets. So, even if the iPods marketshare numbers DO slip even 10-20%, I'll wager that Apple will continue to sell iPods like crazy and make money hand over fist.
I don't think Apple is even slightly scared of Creative and their very whiny CEO. They've totally failed to dominate the market for the last umpty jumpteen years, and I think they will continue to fail.
Do you have any statistics that support your contention?
The 747 is the fastest and most efficient jumbo currently in service. You call it a "technical laggard", and I really don't understand what you mean. No, it doesn't have fly-by-wire control systems, but that is not a significant operating cost driver.
The Airbus may be slightly more efficient, and it is an excellent piece of engineering...but you're damning the 747 with faint praise.
You figure out how to put more than one person in a human-powered aircraft, then we'll talk.
It's absurd to think that people will just not be able to figure out how to come up with an alternative fuel source. It's easy for me to imagine a jet engine that runs on biodiesel, retrofitted to the current jumbo airframes.
Solar power? Not enough power density. Human power? Don't be absurd.
The Gossamer Albatross is a superb piece of engineering, and Paul MacCready is an absolute genius. That is not, however, the future of civil air transport.
I've had a PDA for several years, and I've got a non-trivial investment in PalmOS software that I simply won't walk away from. Samsung has been promising me The Phone for two years, and they continue to not ship it.
Now with Palm doing some sort of stupid LInux-related strategy (which seems to me to consist of "Look at our OS! It gots Linux in it!") I might have to go a different route. One thing I won't tolerate is relying on my phone provider to rent me applications. Not gonna do it.
my iPod has the same control as the Mini. The 3G units had touch-sensitive buttons, and I'm never a fan of those. No idea why "move finger faster, list scrolls faster" was anything other than intuitive for you.
I don't mind spending $400 for a phone, but at that price I won't compromise on the features I want. For now, my rig of choice is pda and phone via bluetooth. The Tungsten T3 seems to be my PDA, unless and until the Tungsten E gets Bluetooth.
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China has a spare capacity of boys because families would rather have boy-children than girl-children. Couple that with the state-mandated birth quotas...I'll leave it to you to google what happens to the girl children.
I think this is a pretty ghastly process.
J'aime beaucoup les Francais.
I'm a little annoyed with just about every major government on the planet, but I've got no issues whatsoever with the various peoples thereof. Humans are cool.
I think that the US is not imperialistic in any meaningful way, and I think that impugning the US as imperialistic when one is operating colonies is absurd and dishonest.
It's not a question of running out of space, it's a question of what to do with all those boys who can't find wives and start families. It's going to be an interesting thing to watch. Glad there's a big ocean between me and them.
"btw, as you probably know, it has been suggested that the Bush administration went to Iraq to prevent China from gaining too much influence in the middle east. If anything causes trouble it will be China's energy appetite in the future, I'd say."
That's an interesting hypothesis, and you might be on to something.
Now, just in case you're curious, I think that Bush's Iraq adventure is stupid. I also think that America has been called "Imperialist" for much longer than Bush's term in office. I think the label is silly.
And yes, I did forget the Dutch. And the Portuguese and the Spanish. Mostly because those countries aren't whining about how imperialist America is.
France is the worst offendor: They STILL HAVE colonies, and they have the audacity to call American imperialism bad.
Hogwash.
Of course it's about protecting commercial interests...that's the only game! Countries have gone to war to protect their economic interest for as long as there have been economies. This is not an American innovation. The American innovation is to allow foreign, sometimes hostile, governments control vital strategic resource stockpiles.
The US isn't imperialistic because the US doesn't have any vassal states or colonies. I wouldn't have guessed that this was a complicated idea...
Had you bothered to log in, I might bother to argue with you.
Considering the extra population of young Chinese boys, I will be very surprised if China didn't go on some serious imperialistic adventures sometime in the next 15 years.
If the world thinks America is imperialist (an idea I find absolutely silly, coming from the France, Britain, and Germany) they're in for a fun surprise when China decides to play.
We'll see. It's going to be ugly.
Wonder what the licensing bodies have to say about that.
The EU might like to act like a single country and a single economy, but that's more of an aspiration than a reality.
Oh well...you're voting with your wallet. Good on ya.
And it's not in Apple's interest to license Microsoft's DRM.
The market will decide who's right.
What "rule of free trade" within the European Union is that, exactly?
My guess is that you mean Apple won't pay your VAT for you...
iTunes scratched an itch I didn't even know I had. The database-driven music organization is THE killer feature, and I've never seen another music player that implements it half so well. iTunes is peerless in that regard.
If the Zen Micro is so undisputably better, the Creative won't have any trouble taking away market share from Apple.
Now that Apple has vastly (vastly!) expanded the market for high-capacity MP3 players, they've paved the way for other competitors to work in those markets. So, even if the iPods marketshare numbers DO slip even 10-20%, I'll wager that Apple will continue to sell iPods like crazy and make money hand over fist.
I don't think Apple is even slightly scared of Creative and their very whiny CEO. They've totally failed to dominate the market for the last umpty jumpteen years, and I think they will continue to fail.
Do you have any statistics that support your contention?
The 747 is the fastest and most efficient jumbo currently in service. You call it a "technical laggard", and I really don't understand what you mean. No, it doesn't have fly-by-wire control systems, but that is not a significant operating cost driver.
The Airbus may be slightly more efficient, and it is an excellent piece of engineering...but you're damning the 747 with faint praise.
Totally, because the name on the airplane is the most important part of making people, like, not die on it.
Huh?
Try to book a flight out of Love to any state not contiguous with Texas. It is, literally, illegal. You have to buy two tickets.
That is how the Wright amendment hamstrings Southwest. They're not allowed to fly from Dallas to anywhere that doesn't touch Texas.
(Note: Recent amendments I belive white list a very few non-adjacent states, but I'm too lazy to find a list.)
10 out of 10 Tibetans agree with you, because they have to.
10 out of 10 Taiwanese disagree with you, because they're relatively free to do so.
You figure out how to put more than one person in a human-powered aircraft, then we'll talk.
It's absurd to think that people will just not be able to figure out how to come up with an alternative fuel source. It's easy for me to imagine a jet engine that runs on biodiesel, retrofitted to the current jumbo airframes.
Solar power? Not enough power density. Human power? Don't be absurd.
The Gossamer Albatross is a superb piece of engineering, and Paul MacCready is an absolute genius. That is not, however, the future of civil air transport.
How many of these "average people" have needed to replace the batteries on their iPod?
I've never heard the iPod's sound quality described as "poor". Most of the tests I've seen show it being marginally better than other players.
I'm sorry you had a bad experience. I wouldn't touch Creative's junk for anything.
I'd rather be dominated by the bourgeois (me) than ruled by an aristocracy (apparently, you).
You conveniently fail to mention the State mandated 35 hour work week, and the generous vacation policies.
So, no, you might not have unions in France. What on earth would they agitate for?
I betcha there are more installs of MS Office on Mac than OpenOffice.
Pocket Quicken saves me money, so I spend money on it.
Me, I can't see running a browser on a phone. I've used my buddy's Treo 600, and the browser is a browser, but the connection....
is...
so...
slow....
that it's useless. I'd rather cache the information I want on the road (AvantGo) than wait for it to download to me.
I strongly dislike SMS on T9 (I mentioned that before) so that's not a draw for me.
When I get a color PDA, it'll be able to run the HP 48 emulator I like, which will save me some space in my manbag.
So we should...what? Just shut up and be like everybody else?
How about, uh, no?
Yep. Yer cursed. : )
I've had a PDA for several years, and I've got a non-trivial investment in PalmOS software that I simply won't walk away from. Samsung has been promising me The Phone for two years, and they continue to not ship it.
Now with Palm doing some sort of stupid LInux-related strategy (which seems to me to consist of "Look at our OS! It gots Linux in it!") I might have to go a different route. One thing I won't tolerate is relying on my phone provider to rent me applications. Not gonna do it.
My 12" Powerbook has a 12" diagonal screen, exactly the same width and resolution as the iBook.
Your friend has a 15" Powerbook, I bet.
my iPod has the same control as the Mini. The 3G units had touch-sensitive buttons, and I'm never a fan of those. No idea why "move finger faster, list scrolls faster" was anything other than intuitive for you.
I don't mind spending $400 for a phone, but at that price I won't compromise on the features I want. For now, my rig of choice is pda and phone via bluetooth. The Tungsten T3 seems to be my PDA, unless and until the Tungsten E gets Bluetooth.
Good luck with your new venture. I love Library, and I'm looking forward to your other toys.