Exactly. That's why the collapse of the Soviet Union was followed in short order by the collapse of Cuba, North Korea, and China, all of whom also transformed themselves into fledgling if flawed democracies.
Oh, wait...
The notion that all we had to do was sell people Big Macs and then they'd become democracies is, and always was, a lie. It was a fraud perpetrated by those who wanted to take advantage of cheap labor and lax labor and enviornmental laws. There was never any evidence that wanting material goods would lead to wanting democracy. In fact, there's plenty of evidence to the contrary. You had the Roman's and their "bread and circuses" policy of simply keeping the masses distracted from the government. In China, you have iPods and KFC.
Instead of aching for democracy, they see China as strong, and want to flex that new found power. It's almost nationalistic. When it comes to democracy, they honestly don't care. They believe the party line that any change to democracy would be too disruptive, so the masses are against it. The Great Firewall of China? They don't care. Most never venture outside of it. Even those here in the US spend most of their time visiting the BBS inside the firewall, like sina.com.cn and sofu.com.
China ceased to be a communist economy sometime in the late 80s or early 90s, no doubt ushered in by Deng Xiaoping's statement, "To be rich is glorious." A look around Bejing today shows a shining example of Maoist communism. Privately owned buisness. A rapidly growing middle class hungry for luxury goods. A wealthy investor class. Mao "Great Leap Forward" Tse-tung would be proud. But don't take my word for it, you can read about it here, or better yet hear it from the Chinese yourself. Just talk to any recent Chinese immigrant, they'll tell you all about it. They're quite proud of the rapid changes in China.
Is China communist? Only nominally. Is it totalitarian? Oh yeah. It's that. But it's got more in common with a kleptocracy than Maoist China.
Cuba's economy went in the tank after the fall of the Soviet Union. In the aftermath, the shadow U.S. dollar economy became so large, that Fidel had to no choice but to recognize it. It's now a major Caribbean tourist desintation for Canada and Europe. It's a country where restaurants deal only in dollars and have secret back rooms that contain of all things, extra seating, so that they can get around the legal limits on the maxium occupancy of the dollar resturants in order to make more money.
Cuba is more communist than China, and Cuba certainly isn't as well off as China. In fact it's pretty piss poor, but then again it does have the crippling sanctions imposed on it by the United States in order to show Miami that we're tough on communism. Communism is bad and must be defeated. That's why China is a most-favored-nation trading partner.
You're refering to the North Korea, where the people starve because Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il, in an effort to prop up his own financial status, has ordered the collective to stop growing rice and instead grow poppies for heroin production, right? Yes. Yes. Truly a vibrant economy, especially in the markets that sell "pork." That why they have pillboxes lining the Yalu river to shoot anyone crossing into China. Truly a beacon for communism the world over.
The USSR spent about 40% of it's budget on the military.
You're right. But it has more to do with the priorities of a communist (especially Stalinist and Maoist) states, rather than any 1980s American military policy.
First off, the point is, the MX couldn't have contributed to the collapse, since the numbers they had to "keep up with" was 5, when the Soviet Union already had hundreds of missles stockpiled. There was no threat to counter.
The Soviet Union collapsed under its own weight. Ronald Reagan had nothing to do with it. The belief that he won the Cold War basically hinges on Reagan saying, "Mr. Gorbechev, tear down this wall!", and then Gorby saying, "Holy shit! Better do what the Gipper says, or he'll sick Bonzo on us!"
The real cause of the collapse has more to do with the intrinsic inefficiencies in command economies. Especially command economies where the commands are enforced under penalty of death. The Kremlin tells you to make 50 widgets for 10 rubles each, you'll make 50 widgets and say they cost 10 rubles each. The may have cost 12, but you're sure as hell aren't going to say that, since you'll be sent off the gulag for failure. So produce them for a loss. Repeat across pretty much all sectors of the economy, and repeat for 70 years, and of course the economy is going to fail. Why do you think China is now effectively a capitalist economy?
Did Reagan's SDI (aka "Star Wars") plan have anything to do with Soviet collapse? Not according to the Gorbechev and the KGB. When SDI was announced, Gorby asked if it was a threat, and the KGB said no. They (rightfully) said that any antiballistic missle system has intrinsic engineering challenges that the US couldn't overcome with the technology currently available, or even available in the near term. And effective countermeasures to the proposed systems were already available. But most damning of all, the cheapest countermeasure would be to simply overwhelm the defenses by launching more missles in the first wave.
I remember the fall of the Iron Curtain. Yeltsin on the tank out side the Russian White House. The tanks rolling in. The crowds surrounding the tanks, and talking to the tank crews. Then watching the tanks turn around and defend Yeltsin. I remember the second wave of tanks, also being stopped by the crowds, and the previous tank crews. It was remarkable that no one died in '91, ala Tiananmen in '89.
It was confusing. It was scary. No one. No one knew what was going on in Russia. The Baltics broke away in less than a week. Then Ukraine, and then everyone else. The press didn't know what was happening. The public didn't know. The US government sure as hell didn't know.
A couple of years ago I was friends with the guy from Moscow who was my age, and I asked him about the collapse. I asked him what happened. I told him I watched it on live television, and no one knew what was actually happening. We knew the events, but no the larger picture. I told him that to this day, I am still mystified to why it collapsed when it did, and how it did. What did he tell me? "I have no idea either."
If you absolutely have to say who one the Cold War for the West, there's really only one choice. Mikhail Gorbachev. His Glastnost and Perestroika effected the internal dynamic of the Soviet Union, more than nukes in Wyoming ever did. In all honesty, the west should have realized how perilous the situation in the Soviet Union was when it was revealed that Gorbachev's wife, Raisa, had an American Express card.
We've seen the evolution of swear words in our own lifetime. Not too many years ago, "suck" as in , "This sucks!" and "Suck it." was profane. As is anything with allusion to felatio. Now, we have Dish Network ads where the wholesome suburbanites sit around and say, "Our tv sucks. It sucks big time." Now, I'm not pulling a Helen Lovejoy and screaming that someone out to think of the children, but there was a time in my life when saying "This sucks" would get you stuck in the corner, and now it's pun fodder.
Now excuse me, but I hear that Barney and Fred are going to "have a gay old time," and I don't want to miss it.
Several forces at work here. One is religion. Global Warming is basically part of the religious beliefs of the New Age, Gaia worshiping 'progressive' crowd in charge of Slashdot editorial decisionmaking. To them, Katrina is Gaia's way of lashing out at the wickedness of Bush's Amerika. When they don't believe Bush himself conjured the storm as part of his pact with Lucifier to bring ruin and destruction to black people. Or in short, they are barking moonbats.
Huh? Oh silly me! La! La! La! La! La! I can't hear you! Bush is our glorious leader who can do no wrong! La! La! La! La! Global Warming doesn't exist! La! La! La! La! La! La!
You're right. There are two different worlds. The one based on reality and the one given by the RNC.
So we have an industry shill and a thinktanker on one side, and almost the entire climatology community on the other. (out of 928 peer-reviewed papers published, NOT ONE denied global warming was real and was occuring now due to human activities. 75% accepted that conclusion explicitly or implicitly, and the remaining 25% made no mention either way.) Yeah that's controversial, and so is the planet being round.
I first heard about Burning Man back in 1997 as an undergrad. Seemed really cool to a kid in rural southern Illinois. I thought about going out there after I got some money together. A couple of years later, I had the money, but not the time. Now I have the time and the money, but from what I've heard Burning Man is a shell of what it used to be. Control of photography that would put Walt Disney to shame. And everywhere I read about burning man now, I get an impression that there's general sense of malaise about the whole thing.
Are you saying that's not true? Because I don't want to go to something after it's already jumped the shark.
Your point is about getting organized is perfectly valid though, but your childish proposal for intimidation is doomed to failure. No one with any sense of self-respect would tolerate intimidation. A much more mature and effective tactic would be constructive engagement.
Keep a few of yoru most favorite DVDs (say, your Monty Python's Flying Circus collection and your Black Adder collection and your copy of Equilibrium and Brazil) but get rid of the crap. Are you seriously going to watch Red Dawn again? Or Romeo Must Die?!
Wait. Which Equllibrium are you talking about? The 2002 or the 2004 movie? I suspect you're talking about 2002 1984 cum fahrenheit-451 cum matrix movie with "gun-kata"? I was given a burned copy of a downloaded vcd from a friend, and I still felt cheated after I watched it.
Now Red Dawn, that's a movie. It's the 80s pre-pubecent boy's wet dream: Taking to the hills and killing ruskies. It's just such a great movie. Invaded from communist Mexico. Europe sitting it out. China having 40% it's population killed by nuclear weapons. And of course, "Avenge me son! AVENGE ME!" I loved that movie growing up. Of course, I was also seven.
I should sometime I should try and track down a copy of 80s craptacular miniseries Amerika.
Dual screens. It's asolutely the best. I currently have two 1600x1200 monitors. I can run three 80col xemacs windows side-by-side on the left screen and run a debugger (ddd) or online docs on the right. It really improves the work flow. I'll never go back to a single screen.
While 3 monitors look better, I can't really figure out what to use the third monitor for.
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Well there's a start to your bad science right there.
That is so true. Darwin is just a trick to remove morality from education. I for one believe in the Intellgent Design theory of Bad Science in the Media. See, there's a few large media conglomerates. "Media gods," if you will. Now these media gods are powerful, but they constantly vie for even more power.
Now, these media gods, are aren't true gods. They're more like lesser gods. So they pay tribute to more powerful gods. These media gods, aren't the only lesser gods. There's also energy gods, gun gods, even church gods, or "god gods" if you will. Now you would think that this pantheon of lesser gods would be self-interested, but they're not, well not completely. Some of the media gods actually subscribe to the same agenda as the other gods and actively promote it. This celestrial mutual admiration uses the media and public's ignorance of science to mask their crass manipulation of facts to further their economic and furthering of their sociological agenda.
Well there's a start to your bad science right there.
That is so true. Darwin is just a trick to remove morality from education. I for one believe in the Intellgent Design theory of Bad Science in the Media. See, there's a few large media conglomerates. "Media gods," if you will. Now these media gods are powerful, but they constantly .
Now, these media gods, are aren't true gods. They're more like lesser gods. So they pay tribute to more powerful gods. These media gods, aren't the only lesser gods. There's also energy gods, gun gods, even church gods, or "god gods" if you will. Now you would think that this pantheon of lesser gods would be self-interested, but they're not, well not completely. Some of the media gods actually subscribe to the same agenda as the other gods and actively promote it. This celestrial mutual admiration uses the media and public's ignorance of science to mask their crass manipulation of facts to further their economic and furthering of their sociological agenda.
Jesus Christ! Some mod doesn't get the reference, and so mods it down as flamebait. But then again, anime freaks are known for their pretentious atitude and ignorance of non-Japanese animation.
Sorry dude. Not everything is a reference to anime, and not all anime is good. For every Inuyasha and Cowboy Bebop, there's ten that suck, like Paranoia Agent, or is formulatic like pretty much every Gundam series. (Giant robots are cool, especially that red, white, and blue one. The blonde bad guy wears metal mask. Kids fight their friends. War is sensless. There are no real bad guys or good guys. Yeah we got it the first time in the orignal Gundam. We don't have to see it again in Gundam 080, Gundam Wing, Gundam Seed, and on and on. It's not that Gundam is a bad series, but they're all pretty much the same except for G Gundam and Gundam SD *shudder*.)
I can't get into most of the comedy Adult Swim offerings
ATFH has fallen a bit, but Harvey Birdman has only improved.
Cowboy Bebop is an obvious one except I expect they know everyone will tune in to see it anyway (but for goodness sake get it out of the 1:30am timeslot! Even geeks sleep eventually.)
Cowboy Bebob has been in the line up pretty much constantly for four years now. If you haven't seen every episode 5 times by now, it sounds like a personal problem. Like your inability to see our 5...thousand dimensions.
All in all, I must say I have been very pleasantly surprised by Adult Swim - it has definitely broadened my ideas about cartoons - they really AREN'T just for kids. I suppose that's obvious to this crowd, but I didn't know much about anime...
The good ones were never just for kids. Rocky and Bullwinkle being the canonical example.
In practice, 2 and 3 are identical to 1. And maybe 1 is what they should be doing. But it's not like they actively made a decision to violate X's human rights. (The censorship issues, on the other hand, really are overt decisions.)
They may not have known what type of investigation was being done, but by enforcing and enabling censorship is violating human rights. They are at the very least collaborators. I would have expected more from Jerry Yang.
Yes and No isn't so bad, since it does answer the question. You can redo the dialog to use OK and Cancel without any losing any clarity.
Cance and Close is another kettle of fish though. Both are used to mean "dismiss without action", only now Cancel actually does something. That's misusing the semantics of the GUI, and is Bad and Wrong.
In 1955, you had no merand rights, in 1975 you did. Today, there are people in prisions around the world that the USA sent there because of the war on Terror. Some have been released after 2 years of torture.
No. You always had those rights. In 1966, the Supreme Court ruled that everyone must be informed of those rights. There's a big difference.
Hate to tell you this, but the fundies run the Senate. He's getting exactly who he wants. If you think Roberts is bad, just wait for who Rove proposes for Rehnquist's seat. Roberts is the "moderate".
Yes yes, the liberals are the ones wanting to use extra-constitutional proceedures to forbid the Supreme Court from overturning their unconstitutional laws.
Examples from the 108th Congress, as compiled by the ABA
During the 1st Session, two remedy-stripping provisions were added to the FY 2004 Commerce-Justice-State appropriations bill prior to House passage. Proposed by Rep. Hostettler (R-IN), they sought to prohibit CJS funds from being used to enforce the judgments in the Newdow and Moore cases. These intemperate provisions were dropped when the CJS bill was incorporated into the final FY 2004 omnibus appropriations bill.
H.R. 3313 (Hostettler, R-IN), legislation to amend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) passed the House in July 2004 by a vote of 233-194 but never received any action in the Senate. It sought to strip all federal courts of jurisdiction over one of the provisions of the 1996 DOMA that gave states the option of not granting "full faith and credit" to same-sex marriages recognized by another state. If enacted, it would have preempted the role of the federal courts to determine the constitutionality of the federal DOMA statute.
H.R. 2028 was introduced by Representative Akin (R-MO) in May 2003 to strip the lower federal courts of jurisdiction to "hear or determine any claim that the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution." The bill quickly garnered extensive sponsorship and, a month later, the Senate Judiciary Committee Chair introduced identical bill S. 1297. The House Judiciary Committee approved H.R. 2028 on a party-line vote in September 2004 after an amendment was adopted to strengthen the jurisdiction-stripping provisions. A week later, the House passed this ABA-opposed bill by a vote 247-173, but the Senate never acted on it.
H.R. 3799 (and similar bills, H.R. 1547, S. 2082 and S.2323) sought to deny all federal courts jurisdiction to hear or decide any case involving federal or state statutory provisions relating to religious freedom, prohibit courts from using or relying on foreign judgments, laws or pronouncements, and provide for the impeachment and removal of judges who violate the bill's prohibitions. The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on this blatantly unconstitutional bill but did not mark it up or take any further action.
In addition to these court-stripping bills, other legislation action was undertaken to limit the discretion of federal judges.
H. Res. 568 (Feeney, R-FL) sought to affirm the sense of Congress that judicial decisions should not rely on any foreign laws, court decisions or pronouncements of foreign governments unless they have been incorporated into U.S. laws by Congress or "inform an understanding of the original meaning of the laws of the U.S." The resolution was so broadly worded that it would have limited the ability of the federal judiciary to interpret treaties or apply the "law of nations." A House Judiciary subcommittee approved an amended version of the bill in May 2004. The ABA opposed this resolution. While such a resolution is non-binding, it nevertheless is pause for concern because it intrudes on the independence of a coequal branch of government and exerts a chilling effect on the decisional independence of our judges. Consider, for example, that Congressman Feeney, in an interview with MSNBC.com, stated, "To the extent they (judges) deliberately ignore Congress' admonishment, they are no longer engaging in good behavior in the meaning of the Constitution and they may subject themselves to the ultimate remedy, which would be impeachment."
H.R. 3920 (Lewis, R-KY) received no action, but deserves mention because it proposed the most extreme change to our constitutional system of checks and balances. Titled the "Congressional Accountability for Judicial Activism Act of 2004," it sought to authorize Congress, by a 2/3 ma
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Exactly. That's why the collapse of the Soviet Union was followed in short order by the collapse of Cuba, North Korea, and China, all of whom also transformed themselves into fledgling if flawed democracies.
Oh, wait...
The notion that all we had to do was sell people Big Macs and then they'd become democracies is, and always was, a lie. It was a fraud perpetrated by those who wanted to take advantage of cheap labor and lax labor and enviornmental laws. There was never any evidence that wanting material goods would lead to wanting democracy. In fact, there's plenty of evidence to the contrary. You had the Roman's and their "bread and circuses" policy of simply keeping the masses distracted from the government. In China, you have iPods and KFC.
Instead of aching for democracy, they see China as strong, and want to flex that new found power. It's almost nationalistic. When it comes to democracy, they honestly don't care. They believe the party line that any change to democracy would be too disruptive, so the masses are against it. The Great Firewall of China? They don't care. Most never venture outside of it. Even those here in the US spend most of their time visiting the BBS inside the firewall, like sina.com.cn and sofu.com.
China ceased to be a communist economy sometime in the late 80s or early 90s, no doubt ushered in by Deng Xiaoping's statement, "To be rich is glorious." A look around Bejing today shows a shining example of Maoist communism. Privately owned buisness. A rapidly growing middle class hungry for luxury goods. A wealthy investor class. Mao "Great Leap Forward" Tse-tung would be proud. But don't take my word for it, you can read about it here, or better yet hear it from the Chinese yourself. Just talk to any recent Chinese immigrant, they'll tell you all about it. They're quite proud of the rapid changes in China.
Is China communist? Only nominally. Is it totalitarian? Oh yeah. It's that. But it's got more in common with a kleptocracy than Maoist China.
Cuba's economy went in the tank after the fall of the Soviet Union. In the aftermath, the shadow U.S. dollar economy became so large, that Fidel had to no choice but to recognize it. It's now a major Caribbean tourist desintation for Canada and Europe. It's a country where restaurants deal only in dollars and have secret back rooms that contain of all things, extra seating, so that they can get around the legal limits on the maxium occupancy of the dollar resturants in order to make more money.
Cuba is more communist than China, and Cuba certainly isn't as well off as China. In fact it's pretty piss poor, but then again it does have the crippling sanctions imposed on it by the United States in order to show Miami that we're tough on communism. Communism is bad and must be defeated. That's why China is a most-favored-nation trading partner.
You're refering to the North Korea, where the people starve because Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il, in an effort to prop up his own financial status, has ordered the collective to stop growing rice and instead grow poppies for heroin production, right? Yes. Yes. Truly a vibrant economy, especially in the markets that sell "pork." That why they have pillboxes lining the Yalu river to shoot anyone crossing into China. Truly a beacon for communism the world over.
Even Vietnam is undergoing market reforms.
The USSR spent about 40% of it's budget on the military.
You're right. But it has more to do with the priorities of a communist (especially Stalinist and Maoist) states, rather than any 1980s American military policy.
First off, the point is, the MX couldn't have contributed to the collapse, since the numbers they had to "keep up with" was 5, when the Soviet Union already had hundreds of missles stockpiled. There was no threat to counter.
The Soviet Union collapsed under its own weight. Ronald Reagan had nothing to do with it. The belief that he won the Cold War basically hinges on Reagan saying, "Mr. Gorbechev, tear down this wall!", and then Gorby saying, "Holy shit! Better do what the Gipper says, or he'll sick Bonzo on us!"
The real cause of the collapse has more to do with the intrinsic inefficiencies in command economies. Especially command economies where the commands are enforced under penalty of death. The Kremlin tells you to make 50 widgets for 10 rubles each, you'll make 50 widgets and say they cost 10 rubles each. The may have cost 12, but you're sure as hell aren't going to say that, since you'll be sent off the gulag for failure. So produce them for a loss. Repeat across pretty much all sectors of the economy, and repeat for 70 years, and of course the economy is going to fail. Why do you think China is now effectively a capitalist economy?
Did Reagan's SDI (aka "Star Wars") plan have anything to do with Soviet collapse? Not according to the Gorbechev and the KGB. When SDI was announced, Gorby asked if it was a threat, and the KGB said no. They (rightfully) said that any antiballistic missle system has intrinsic engineering challenges that the US couldn't overcome with the technology currently available, or even available in the near term. And effective countermeasures to the proposed systems were already available. But most damning of all, the cheapest countermeasure would be to simply overwhelm the defenses by launching more missles in the first wave.
I remember the fall of the Iron Curtain. Yeltsin on the tank out side the Russian White House. The tanks rolling in. The crowds surrounding the tanks, and talking to the tank crews. Then watching the tanks turn around and defend Yeltsin. I remember the second wave of tanks, also being stopped by the crowds, and the previous tank crews. It was remarkable that no one died in '91, ala Tiananmen in '89.
It was confusing. It was scary. No one. No one knew what was going on in Russia. The Baltics broke away in less than a week. Then Ukraine, and then everyone else. The press didn't know what was happening. The public didn't know. The US government sure as hell didn't know.
A couple of years ago I was friends with the guy from Moscow who was my age, and I asked him about the collapse. I asked him what happened. I told him I watched it on live television, and no one knew what was actually happening. We knew the events, but no the larger picture. I told him that to this day, I am still mystified to why it collapsed when it did, and how it did. What did he tell me? "I have no idea either."
If you absolutely have to say who one the Cold War for the West, there's really only one choice. Mikhail Gorbachev. His Glastnost and Perestroika effected the internal dynamic of the Soviet Union, more than nukes in Wyoming ever did. In all honesty, the west should have realized how perilous the situation in the Soviet Union was when it was revealed that Gorbachev's wife, Raisa, had an American Express card.
We've seen the evolution of swear words in our own lifetime. Not too many years ago, "suck" as in , "This sucks!" and "Suck it." was profane. As is anything with allusion to felatio. Now, we have Dish Network ads where the wholesome suburbanites sit around and say, "Our tv sucks. It sucks big time." Now, I'm not pulling a Helen Lovejoy and screaming that someone out to think of the children, but there was a time in my life when saying "This sucks" would get you stuck in the corner, and now it's pun fodder.
Now excuse me, but I hear that Barney and Fred are going to "have a gay old time," and I don't want to miss it.
Several forces at work here. One is religion. Global Warming is basically part of the religious beliefs of the New Age, Gaia worshiping 'progressive' crowd in charge of Slashdot editorial decisionmaking. To them, Katrina is Gaia's way of lashing out at the wickedness of Bush's Amerika. When they don't believe Bush himself conjured the storm as part of his pact with Lucifier to bring ruin and destruction to black people. Or in short, they are barking moonbats.
Huh? Oh silly me! La! La! La! La! La! I can't hear you! Bush is our glorious leader who can do no wrong! La! La! La! La! Global Warming doesn't exist! La! La! La! La! La! La!
You're right. There are two different worlds. The one based on reality and the one given by the RNC.
Yeah. Just to the Freepers.
So we have an industry shill and a thinktanker on one side, and almost the entire climatology community on the other. (out of 928 peer-reviewed papers published, NOT ONE denied global warming was real and was occuring now due to human activities. 75% accepted that conclusion explicitly or implicitly, and the remaining 25% made no mention either way.) Yeah that's controversial, and so is the planet being round.
Just last week it was reported that arctic sea ice melting was accelerating, and therefore we have passed the tipping point.
There may have been controversy 30 years ago. The only controversy now is the manufactured one for political gain. Then again, I suspect fm6, also believes that the white house was changing scientific results simply to make it "fair and balanced".
I first heard about Burning Man back in 1997 as an undergrad. Seemed really cool to a kid in rural southern Illinois. I thought about going out there after I got some money together. A couple of years later, I had the money, but not the time. Now I have the time and the money, but from what I've heard Burning Man is a shell of what it used to be. Control of photography that would put Walt Disney to shame. And everywhere I read about burning man now, I get an impression that there's general sense of malaise about the whole thing.
Are you saying that's not true? Because I don't want to go to something after it's already jumped the shark.
Why do you think I can still go to a gun store and by a semi automatic rifle and a semi/auto conversion kit?
Hate to tell you this, but you're absolutely wrong when it comes to conversion kits. But you don't have to take the law's word for it. Check an Internet forum.
Your point is about getting organized is perfectly valid though, but your childish proposal for intimidation is doomed to failure. No one with any sense of self-respect would tolerate intimidation. A much more mature and effective tactic would be constructive engagement.
LOL, it's flamebait because some moderator's favorite obscure hobby distro didn't make your cut.
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Keep a few of yoru most favorite DVDs (say, your Monty Python's Flying Circus collection and your Black Adder collection and your copy of Equilibrium and Brazil) but get rid of the crap. Are you seriously going to watch Red Dawn again? Or Romeo Must Die?!
Wait. Which Equllibrium are you talking about? The 2002 or the 2004 movie? I suspect you're talking about 2002 1984 cum fahrenheit-451 cum matrix movie with "gun-kata"? I was given a burned copy of a downloaded vcd from a friend, and I still felt cheated after I watched it.
Now Red Dawn, that's a movie. It's the 80s pre-pubecent boy's wet dream: Taking to the hills and killing ruskies. It's just such a great movie. Invaded from communist Mexico. Europe sitting it out. China having 40% it's population killed by nuclear weapons. And of course, "Avenge me son! AVENGE ME!" I loved that movie growing up. Of course, I was also seven.
I should sometime I should try and track down a copy of 80s craptacular miniseries Amerika.
Dual screens. It's asolutely the best. I currently have two 1600x1200 monitors. I can run three 80col xemacs windows side-by-side on the left screen and run a debugger (ddd) or online docs on the right. It really improves the work flow. I'll never go back to a single screen.
While 3 monitors look better, I can't really figure out what to use the third monitor for.
Ah, the joys and travails of a virtual pet.
I prefer Space Moose's take myself.
Perl programmers always say they can do anything in one line of code.
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Well there's a start to your bad science right there.
That is so true. Darwin is just a trick to remove morality from education. I for one believe in the Intellgent Design theory of Bad Science in the Media. See, there's a few large media conglomerates. "Media gods," if you will. Now these media gods are powerful, but they constantly vie for even more power.
Now, these media gods, are aren't true gods. They're more like lesser gods. So they pay tribute to more powerful gods. These media gods, aren't the only lesser gods. There's also energy gods, gun gods, even church gods, or "god gods" if you will. Now you would think that this pantheon of lesser gods would be self-interested, but they're not, well not completely. Some of the media gods actually subscribe to the same agenda as the other gods and
actively promote it.
This celestrial mutual admiration uses the media and public's ignorance of science to mask their crass manipulation of facts to further their economic and furthering of their sociological agenda.
Now these media gods, along with the with lesser gods, have taken a page out of Baudelaire's book. Using their considerable resources have attempted to convince the world that they don't exist. Of course, they sometimes slip up and admit to the charade.
The saddest thing about this, is that this post didn't come off as crackpotty as I intended.
Well there's a start to your bad science right there.
That is so true. Darwin is just a trick to remove morality from education. I for one believe in the Intellgent Design theory of Bad Science in the Media. See, there's a few large media conglomerates. "Media gods," if you will. Now these media gods are powerful, but they constantly .
Now, these media gods, are aren't true gods. They're more like lesser gods. So they pay tribute to more powerful gods. These media gods, aren't the only lesser gods. There's also energy gods, gun gods, even church gods, or "god gods" if you will. Now you would think that this pantheon of lesser gods would be self-interested, but they're not, well not completely. Some of the media gods actually subscribe to the same agenda as the other gods and
actively promote it.
This celestrial mutual admiration uses the media and public's ignorance of science to mask their crass manipulation of facts to further their economic and furthering of their sociological agenda.
Now these media gods, along with the with lesser gods, have taken a page out of Baudelaire's book. Using their considerable resources have attempted to convince the world that they don't exist. Of course, they sometimes slip up and admit to the charade.
The saddest thing about this, is that this post didn't come off as crackpotty as I intended.
Who can't take a joke?
Tony can't take a joke!
Anime is teh suck
Jesus Christ! Some mod doesn't get the reference, and so mods it down as flamebait. But then again, anime freaks are known for their pretentious atitude and ignorance of non-Japanese animation.
Sorry dude. Not everything is a reference to anime, and not all anime is good. For every Inuyasha and Cowboy Bebop, there's ten that suck, like Paranoia Agent, or is formulatic like pretty much every Gundam series. (Giant robots are cool, especially that red, white, and blue one. The blonde bad guy wears metal mask. Kids fight their friends. War is sensless. There are no real bad guys or good guys. Yeah we got it the first time in the orignal Gundam. We don't have to see it again in Gundam 080, Gundam Wing, Gundam Seed, and on and on. It's not that Gundam is a bad series, but they're all pretty much the same except for G Gundam and Gundam SD *shudder*.)
I can't get into most of the comedy Adult Swim offerings
ATFH has fallen a bit, but Harvey Birdman has only improved.
Cowboy Bebop is an obvious one except I expect they know everyone will tune in to see it anyway (but for goodness sake get it out of the 1:30am timeslot! Even geeks sleep eventually.)
Cowboy Bebob has been in the line up pretty much constantly for four years now. If you haven't seen every episode 5 times by now, it sounds like a personal problem. Like your inability to see our 5...thousand dimensions.
All in all, I must say I have been very pleasantly surprised by Adult Swim - it has definitely broadened my ideas about cartoons - they really AREN'T just for kids. I suppose that's obvious to this crowd, but I didn't know much about anime...
The good ones were never just for kids. Rocky and Bullwinkle being the canonical example.
In practice, 2 and 3 are identical to 1. And maybe 1 is what they should be doing. But it's not like they actively made a decision to violate X's human rights. (The censorship issues, on the other hand, really are overt decisions.)
They may not have known what type of investigation was being done, but by enforcing and enabling censorship is violating human rights. They are at the very least collaborators. I would have expected more from Jerry Yang.
Yes and No isn't so bad, since it does answer the question. You can redo the dialog to use OK and Cancel without any losing any clarity.
Cance and Close is another kettle of fish though. Both are used to mean "dismiss without action", only now Cancel actually does something. That's misusing the semantics of the GUI, and is Bad and Wrong.
In 1955, you had no merand rights, in 1975 you did. Today, there are people in prisions around the world that the USA sent there because of the war on Terror. Some have been released after 2 years of torture.
No. You always had those rights. In 1966, the Supreme Court ruled that everyone must be informed of those rights. There's a big difference.
Hate to tell you this, but the fundies run the Senate. He's getting exactly who he wants. If you think Roberts is bad, just wait for who Rove proposes for Rehnquist's seat. Roberts is the "moderate".
I give you Chief Justice Scalia.
We're fucked for 30 years.
Examples from the 108th Congress, as compiled by the ABA
Looks like Pat Robertson does have God's ear.