Get a grip. First, "all the jobs" didn't go to Mexico. You've been listening to far too much of the David Duke Radio Diatribe. During the 1990s, the United States enjoyed unprecidented prosperity, and in spite of our current recession, we're still the sole economic superpower on the planet by a tremendous margin.
The devil is in how you define 'prosperity' and for whom. The growth of the American economy might look great in macro terms and for large investors, but the loss of jobs hurts very much the poor working stiffs like me. You might point to unemployment figures as refuting the loss of jobs, but if you carefully consider in which sectors jobs were created and lost, you will see my point. For labor, skilled positions paying enough to support a family are few and far between compared to ten years ago and a world apart from 25 years ago. The sector that gained most positions is the service industry (read: unskilled or less skilled labor). End result is the greater separation between rich and poor, but hey, as long as Warren Buffett is happy, everything is ok right?
Maybe the Carribean cane growers could do what the Hawaiian cane growers did in the 1890s: persuade the US Marines to invade to quell an 'emergency', compel the government to abdicate and have the territory annexed. Voila! No tarriffs!
I have tried to do this too... However, I recently bought a plane ticket online, and as much as i tried to resist, the cheapest ticket came from Orbitz, who is notable if not notorious for popups and spam. I really wanted to find a ticket elsewhere, but when the difference was a hundred dollars or so, where then are my anti spamming sentiments?
The logical conclusion of this is that I helped support Orbitz and others see spam as effective. For this I can only fall on my knees braveheart style and beg/.'s collective forgiveness..
Do you actually think the rest of the world is lightyears ahead of us in technology? I mean, if there were all these magical things Japan and Europe invented don't you think they would be making a killing selling them to us? Come on.
Doing unto others as you would have them do unto you is fine for Buddists and 50's TV, but I find doing unto others as they would do unto you is much more pragmatic.
I see it happening time and again and can't help thinking that once taken, civil liberties are never given back.
you have a good point, but I think you're taking it just a bit too far. Wartime enroachments on civil liberties are generally repealed (or ruled unconstitutional) after the hostilities cease. A good example would be the Sedition Act during WWI or any number of the police-state/ command-economy acts of FDR during WWII.
The fundamental problem is that since these 'hostilities' are extra-national, it's going to be very hard to have a cessation in hostilities, much less one as simple and discrete as a German surrender eg. Furthermore, in supporting particular national governments against 'terrorists' the US has a very poor record. Ask Peru or Nicaragua or Afghanistan or Indonesia. I am more and more thinking that this problem will only really be solved by (get your tinfoil hats ready here) a fundamental upheaval in the way the world is governed and how wealth is distributed.
Pat Buchannan was named as a possible 'Deep Throat', something I seriously doubt. Still, it raises questions. Suppose that someone we respect *cough* *cough* is in actuality a criminal?
I guess that takes Pat Buchanan out of consideration...
Currently, the presence of haptics in the mass market is limited primarily to traditional non-force-feedback devices (mice, etc.) and simple single-dof feedback devices (e.g. vibrating game controllers).
This isn't entirely true. Immersion and Logitech produced the Wingman Force Feedback Mousewhich allowed true force feedback over 2-dimensions, with plugins to (then) current games. There also exists a full hand haptic device, though not for games (way too expensive) would rock the world at pong (i guess it would be more like handball with that..)
except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger
as much as it scares me to give additional powers to someone like GWB I believe terrorist attacks and potential attacks constitute a public danger as good as anything you could think up. so it appears to be constitutional to my eyes. Whether we're going after the cause or the symptoms is another story however...
this might be nitpicking, but i think the hyphen would be more appropriate in the other position as in Radio Free-Europe (radio from the free portion of Europe) rather than Internet-Free China (being free of the internet is something the powers that be in China would love).
then again, if i were smart/disciplined/lucky enough to have gone to MIT, I'd probably have better things to bitch about than the difficulty of organic chem.
I agree with you, but trains or ships don't have the power to destroy large symbolic buildings. Also, despite what the Exxon Valdez might have shown, sinking, or even damaging a large ship is harder than you might think. An airplane otoh, takes a certain degree of skill to NOT damage or destroy.
As an aside, I read somewhere that the target of the 4th plane was the white house. Can you imagine the shit that would have hit the fan had that happened? I think the "Let's Roll" guy, whose name I shamefully can't remember, is more a hero than we at first apppreciate.
I dunno about that. The destructive power of a commercial airliner is just too great in terms of kinetic energy + potential energy in fuel. It was highly effective and very dramatic. If i were a terrorist, I would be looking for the chance to do it again once security grew lax again. One might argue that the passengers would rise up against the attackers. A terrorist would then need to hijack a plane with fewer passengers or even better, a cargo plane.
There's also a matter of the USAF being willing to shoot down hikacked planes. A terrorist would then have to crash near to the plane arrival or departure airport. This is quite possible if you consider metro airports, especiall Reagan Intl..
Somehow I doubt that the game is going to dwell much on the sheer stupidity of making sure your socks are all rolled "just so" before a barracks inspection.
Obviously you never learned attention to detail! When your socks are out of place, people die! No seriously, however absurd formal inspections are, they are a training tool for just that attention to detail. They suck, but they have their place.
Whether or not Alderaan is a rebel outpost is irrelevant. Tarkin made it pretty clear that it was being used to demonstrate the power of the Death Star, which is why he chose it over Dantooine.
Which is another similarity to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Truman chose these cities to demonstrate the power of the bombs to the Japanese, convincing them to surrender, without hitting the big cities which had the potential of killing the Hirohito which could have potentially steeled the Japanese resolve./Runonsentence
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The devil is in how you define 'prosperity' and for whom. The growth of the American economy might look great in macro terms and for large investors, but the loss of jobs hurts very much the poor working stiffs like me. You might point to unemployment figures as refuting the loss of jobs, but if you carefully consider in which sectors jobs were created and lost, you will see my point. For labor, skilled positions paying enough to support a family are few and far between compared to ten years ago and a world apart from 25 years ago. The sector that gained most positions is the service industry (read: unskilled or less skilled labor). End result is the greater separation between rich and poor, but hey, as long as Warren Buffett is happy, everything is ok right?
Maybe the Carribean cane growers could do what the Hawaiian cane growers did in the 1890s: persuade the US Marines to invade to quell an 'emergency', compel the government to abdicate and have the territory annexed. Voila! No tarriffs!
This guy wouldn't happen to be related to Jello Biafra (aka Eric Boucher) would he?
The logical conclusion of this is that I helped support Orbitz and others see spam as effective. For this I can only fall on my knees braveheart style and beg /.'s collective forgiveness..
discharging big caps with a screwdriver is a good way to fuse your screwdriver to the cap. Shorting probes attached to a safe ground are your friend.
I hope you're not seriously referring to /. as journalism...
In other news, the US trade deficit is now at $35 billion. Next question?
Do unto others then split.
---Friday Night Firefight
you have a good point, but I think you're taking it just a bit too far. Wartime enroachments on civil liberties are generally repealed (or ruled unconstitutional) after the hostilities cease. A good example would be the Sedition Act during WWI or any number of the police-state/ command-economy acts of FDR during WWII.
The fundamental problem is that since these 'hostilities' are extra-national, it's going to be very hard to have a cessation in hostilities, much less one as simple and discrete as a German surrender eg. Furthermore, in supporting particular national governments against 'terrorists' the US has a very poor record. Ask Peru or Nicaragua or Afghanistan or Indonesia. I am more and more thinking that this problem will only really be solved by (get your tinfoil hats ready here) a fundamental upheaval in the way the world is governed and how wealth is distributed.
I guess that takes Pat Buchanan out of consideration...
This isn't entirely true. Immersion and Logitech produced the Wingman Force Feedback Mousewhich allowed true force feedback over 2-dimensions, with plugins to (then) current games. There also exists a full hand haptic device, though not for games (way too expensive) would rock the world at pong (i guess it would be more like handball with that..)
as much as it scares me to give additional powers to someone like GWB I believe terrorist attacks and potential attacks constitute a public danger as good as anything you could think up. so it appears to be constitutional to my eyes. Whether we're going after the cause or the symptoms is another story however...
If you are using the example of Clippy, then you have not witnessed the awesome destructive power of the fully armed and operational Microsoft Bob!
this might be nitpicking, but i think the hyphen would be more appropriate in the other position as in Radio Free-Europe (radio from the free portion of Europe) rather than Internet-Free China (being free of the internet is something the powers that be in China would love).
but is it quieter than my case?
Furthermore, he was a submarine officer.
then again, if i were smart/disciplined/lucky enough to have gone to MIT, I'd probably have better things to bitch about than the difficulty of organic chem.
As an aside, I read somewhere that the target of the 4th plane was the white house. Can you imagine the shit that would have hit the fan had that happened? I think the "Let's Roll" guy, whose name I shamefully can't remember, is more a hero than we at first apppreciate.
for $500 please Alex
...What is Organic Chemistry.
There's also a matter of the USAF being willing to shoot down hikacked planes. A terrorist would then have to crash near to the plane arrival or departure airport. This is quite possible if you consider metro airports, especiall Reagan Intl..
Reverse Polish Mutation???
...verily this day unto me have you delivered this Clue. And thus having been clued, i shall sing thy praises.
wow, was that genie effect slow enough? My lombard even doesn't have that much trouble
Obviously you never learned attention to detail! When your socks are out of place, people die! No seriously, however absurd formal inspections are, they are a training tool for just that attention to detail. They suck, but they have their place.
Which is another similarity to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Truman chose these cities to demonstrate the power of the bombs to the Japanese, convincing them to surrender, without hitting the big cities which had the potential of killing the Hirohito which could have potentially steeled the Japanese resolve. /Runonsentence