1.- Who gave your country the right to institute democracy by force, killing directly or indirectly thousends of innocent people in the process? By all acounts Bush has fucked up Iraq. Call it an opinion all what you like, the fact is that a country that was relatively prosperous and no longer a threat to anyobody has become a nest for terrorists, may disinitegrate and has thousend of its citizens wipped out of the map without the minimum decency of being accounted for by the invading forces (as mandated by the conventions of war and common decency).
2.- You may agree here then that Bush should not be taking state resources (how do you call them? National Guard?) into Iraq I suppose. N.O. was partiallly ill prepared because Bush stretched resources on its little imperial adventure in the middle east that would have been otherwise used to provide relief in N.O.
3.- If you don't read enough about politics and current affairs do not blame the guys on the Internet for your lack of interest. The interview mentioned was widely publicized, and the best Bush could come up with was the fish incident (during a presidency that has being perhaps on of the most significant ones since the Vietnam war). That is fact, no Internet fiction.
There are plenty of energy sources that are not based in CO2, also many countries are not even thinking about energy conservation (the amount of energy wated in the US is obscence).
And just in recent months the nature of human influence in this process has been decidedly settled. We are responsible for it. Period.
Where you get all this mumbo-jumbo about "hypothesis" and "educated guesses" is a mystery.
There are loads of peer reviewed studies that conclude pretty much the two facts outlined above, so as far as I am concerned you are in the same breadth as flat earth believers and holocaust deniers.
CO2 produced by human activity is neatly followed by unusual (as in compared against thousend of years of measurements via CO2 trapped on ice in glaciers) raise in athmospheric CO2 levels that you can't find elsewhere in the previous 10000 years.
Tell us wise guy how the polar bears drowning, the guy in Tuvalu whose country may be submerged or the victim of the latest mega hurricane stand to win from this.
But while the "left wing" institutions go, pull cores of ice from glaciers, and measure levels of CO2 in order to understand the current state of affairs, I don't see much more than defensive mumbo jumbo from non specialists whoe patrons are the people that stand to loose the most if strict CO2 controls are imposed.
And the fucking polar bears are drowning. I gues you will claim that is a great PR move by the global warming whistle blowers.
While the deniers (which is the only name they deserve) have no credible eveidence to back up their assertions and are normally paid by oil companies (the same companies with good connections regarding the Iraq mess, quelle surprise), the people worried about global warming keep presenting believable evidence that paints a complete picture (ice cores in the poles and glaciers, sea levels, climate models, temperature measures, CO2 measurements and correlations with human created CO2, etc.) about a very worrying situation.
Your bashing of some global warming whistle blowers as anti-human can be qualified of charming, even cute.
Your bashing in the base of anti-western biases are completely ludicrous. Most people worried about global warming point to the emerging industrial nations as a major concern, but when one nation alone produces 25% of CO2 and does precious little about it, protests about such state of affairs may appear as anti-western to the unsuspecting or the malicious.
Last world cup both Germany and the US reached the quarterfinals, all else being equal, Germany performed badly in the European Championships while the US had moderate success in official torunaments where they participated.
Also Germany has played mostly friendlies that have less value than official matches (of which the US played a good deal).
As for Spain, they were knocked out from the last World Cup by South Korea in the same round, so it is perfectly legitimate that the US may be better ranked.
The FIFA ranking may not be the best one (I prefer the ELO one, look it up) but it is not pulled out of thin air.
The talent pool has increased in countries that used to be a laughing stock.
The Netherlands were preey much in the bottom level of European and World football until they introduced football academies in the 60s. In the 70s they ecame arguable the best team of the decade, reaching 2 WC finals.
France, Denmark and now some African teams have academies that are createing new talent.
Schools do transmit values. We have Christian schools, Muslim schools, agnostic schools and even home schooling. For bunny's sakes, to say schools should not transmit values is completely idiotic.
Heck, any form of human organization does transmit values.
The simple fact that schools exist is by itself alone propagating values.
If you are raising them to accept violence as socially acceptable then it becomes my problem.
SInce we don't know what you are doing, and I can't go and put your children straight, the best thing to do is to provide you with the tools (classifications, penalties against people that that decide they are better educators than you without your approval, warnings in packaging, etc) to allow you to make informed decisions.
If you go, buy Kill,kill,kill v. 134 for your children in spite of warnings and classifications, nobody is going to bat an eyelid.
But you (no, me) don't want such contents reaching your children hands without interested adult supervision.
If rich countries wanted to stop immigration they would do so in no time, it is not that difficult to put a border guard every 500m in a porous border.
But politicians in those places know about this and milk the situation for all what is worth: lettinng enough immigarnts in in order to keep the economy nicely churning along while at the same time looking tough with those bastard immigrants stealing our jobs.
I mean, honestly, lets look at normal living patterns:
-8 hours sitting in an office. -8 hours sleeping. -2 or 3 hours doing stuff at home.
that is already 18, 19 hours a day during which a landline is easily available.
Guess what? During that time I don't care to be called because more likely I am already with the people I want to interact with.
If the mobile phone service per se was so useful the companies will not be trying like mad to cram all other unnecessary services in order to increase their revenue.
The truth is that people use little that service beacuse it is pretty useless and what they are using is text of all things.
If you are so stuborn to keep demanding that an all purpose machine does specialized task then you will be screwed and deservedly so.
You wanna play games? Buy a games console.
You wanna have a general purpose machine? Use something open, I would say Linux.
Your problem is that you insist in playing games for a machine that is not designed to do so. Well, pay the premium for it, but there are clea alternatives, you are just chosing to be locked.
I studied the following topics at least on semester for an Engineering degree in UNAM:
-Ethics (yes, a full semester of it). -Busniness Administration, Economics, Fundamentals of Mexican Law (which has to do with your point about conracts). -Administration of Computere Datcentres (where amongst other things you learn to calculate if your equipment will overheat or not). -Computer Networks (where we disected computer protocols). -Operating Systems (where we learned about file descriptors). -Digital Design (for the bit about assembly).
SO while sombebody learning AJAX only may learn something and even earn a few bucks, the point has to be made that a solid education will take you much further.
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1.- Who gave your country the right to institute democracy by force, killing directly or indirectly thousends of innocent people in the process? By all acounts Bush has fucked up Iraq. Call it an opinion all what you like, the fact is that a country that was relatively prosperous and no longer a threat to anyobody has become a nest for terrorists, may disinitegrate and has thousend of its citizens wipped out of the map without the minimum decency of being accounted for by the invading forces (as mandated by the conventions of war and common decency).
2.- You may agree here then that Bush should not be taking state resources (how do you call them? National Guard?) into Iraq I suppose. N.O. was partiallly ill prepared because Bush stretched resources on its little imperial adventure in the middle east that would have been otherwise used to provide relief in N.O.
3.- If you don't read enough about politics and current affairs do not blame the guys on the Internet for your lack of interest. The interview mentioned was widely publicized, and the best Bush could come up with was the fish incident (during a presidency that has being perhaps on of the most significant ones since the Vietnam war). That is fact, no Internet fiction.
There are plenty of energy sources that are not based in CO2, also many countries are not even thinking about energy conservation (the amount of energy wated in the US is obscence).
I dare you here.
Name those climatologists. If there are that many surely it will be a piece of cake to name a few.
Global warming is a factual thing.
Get over it.
And just in recent months the nature of human influence in this process has been decidedly settled. We are responsible for it. Period.
Where you get all this mumbo-jumbo about "hypothesis" and "educated guesses" is a mystery.
There are loads of peer reviewed studies that conclude pretty much the two facts outlined above, so as far as I am concerned you are in the same breadth as flat earth believers and holocaust deniers.
Hawking puts forward very focefully that our understanding of the Universe probes that a God is completely unnecessary, and thus irrelevant.
... when I see one.
CO2 produced by human activity is neatly followed by unusual (as in compared against thousend of years of measurements via CO2 trapped on ice in glaciers) raise in athmospheric CO2 levels that you can't find elsewhere in the previous 10000 years.
Tell us wise guy how the polar bears drowning, the guy in Tuvalu whose country may be submerged or the victim of the latest mega hurricane stand to win from this.
Everybody have biases. Bumpety, upety, boo!
But while the "left wing" institutions go, pull cores of ice from glaciers, and measure levels of CO2 in order to understand the current state of affairs, I don't see much more than defensive mumbo jumbo from non specialists whoe patrons are the people that stand to loose the most if strict CO2 controls are imposed.
And the fucking polar bears are drowning. I gues you will claim that is a great PR move by the global warming whistle blowers.
While the deniers (which is the only name they deserve) have no credible eveidence to back up their assertions and are normally paid by oil companies (the same companies with good connections regarding the Iraq mess, quelle surprise), the people worried about global warming keep presenting believable evidence that paints a complete picture (ice cores in the poles and glaciers, sea levels, climate models, temperature measures, CO2 measurements and correlations with human created CO2, etc.) about a very worrying situation.
Your bashing of some global warming whistle blowers as anti-human can be qualified of charming, even cute.
Your bashing in the base of anti-western biases are completely ludicrous. Most people worried about global warming point to the emerging industrial nations as a major concern, but when one nation alone produces 25% of CO2 and does precious little about it, protests about such state of affairs may appear as anti-western to the unsuspecting or the malicious.
... as predicted by global warming models is not helping.
http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/02/16/braa sch-tuvalu/
There are countries that could dissapear in our lifetimes, as well as coastal cities.
If sea levels go up one or 2 meters cities like London (pop 8 million) could be floded under one or two meters of water.
Last world cup both Germany and the US reached the quarterfinals, all else being equal, Germany performed badly in the European Championships while the US had moderate success in official torunaments where they participated.
Also Germany has played mostly friendlies that have less value than official matches (of which the US played a good deal).
As for Spain, they were knocked out from the last World Cup by South Korea in the same round, so it is perfectly legitimate that the US may be better ranked.
The FIFA ranking may not be the best one (I prefer the ELO one, look it up) but it is not pulled out of thin air.
The talent pool has increased in countries that used to be a laughing stock.
The Netherlands were preey much in the bottom level of European and World football until they introduced football academies in the 60s. In the 70s they ecame arguable the best team of the decade, reaching 2 WC finals.
France, Denmark and now some African teams have academies that are createing new talent.
All of France players were French.
Period.
They could not play for France otherwise.
... in recent official competitions.
So there you go.
So he was right after all.
Wages can never ever converge up. That is an stupid and ignorant statment based on wishful thinking and not in simple common sense.
If you have a wage differential, all else being equal, the people with the lower wages will have a competitive advantage.
The people with the higher wages will need to lower them in order to compete.
Probe that the US middle class (if you can define it consitently for all points in space and time) is shrinking.
There is no serious economist that would back such howgash.
Schools do transmit values. We have Christian schools, Muslim schools, agnostic schools and even home schooling. For bunny's sakes, to say schools should not transmit values is completely idiotic.
Heck, any form of human organization does transmit values.
The simple fact that schools exist is by itself alone propagating values.
If you are raising them to accept violence as socially acceptable then it becomes my problem.
SInce we don't know what you are doing, and I can't go and put your children straight, the best thing to do is to provide you with the tools (classifications, penalties against people that that decide they are better educators than you without your approval, warnings in packaging, etc) to allow you to make informed decisions.
If you go, buy Kill,kill,kill v. 134 for your children in spite of warnings and classifications, nobody is going to bat an eyelid.
But you (no, me) don't want such contents reaching your children hands without interested adult supervision.
Which genocide?
Nobody is puposefuly exterminating anybody.
If rich countries wanted to stop immigration they would do so in no time, it is not that difficult to put a border guard every 500m in a porous border.
But politicians in those places know about this and milk the situation for all what is worth: lettinng enough immigarnts in in order to keep the economy nicely churning along while at the same time looking tough with those bastard immigrants stealing our jobs.
Here is TV, no streaming of course and employees calling sick fille a self assesment form in case there is a pattern.
Oh yes, and we can work from home to save a couple of hours or more avoiding the commute that is more less the time that one match lasts...
I mean, honestly, lets look at normal living patterns:
-8 hours sitting in an office.
-8 hours sleeping.
-2 or 3 hours doing stuff at home.
that is already 18, 19 hours a day during which a landline is easily available.
Guess what? During that time I don't care to be called because more likely I am already with the people I want to interact with.
If the mobile phone service per se was so useful the companies will not be trying like mad to cram all other unnecessary services in order to increase their revenue.
The truth is that people use little that service beacuse it is pretty useless and what they are using is text of all things.
If you are so stuborn to keep demanding that an all purpose machine does specialized task then you will be screwed and deservedly so.
You wanna play games? Buy a games console.
You wanna have a general purpose machine? Use something open, I would say Linux.
Your problem is that you insist in playing games for a machine that is not designed to do so. Well, pay the premium for it, but there are clea alternatives, you are just chosing to be locked.
I studied the following topics at least on semester for an Engineering degree in UNAM:
-Ethics (yes, a full semester of it).
-Busniness Administration, Economics, Fundamentals of Mexican Law (which has to do with your point about conracts).
-Administration of Computere Datcentres (where amongst other things you learn to calculate if your equipment will overheat or not).
-Computer Networks (where we disected computer protocols).
-Operating Systems (where we learned about file descriptors).
-Digital Design (for the bit about assembly).
SO while sombebody learning AJAX only may learn something and even earn a few bucks, the point has to be made that a solid education will take you much further.