That the economic crisis put half-baked crazy conspiracy theorists, fear mongers and FUD spreaders (they also call them "analysts" if they actually have a job at a media outlet), out of a job.
Well... complaining is what you are doing now: "hey, these guys are breaking my laws here and either the BP is not doing their job or the gvmnt needs to do something about the regulatory frame cause its clearly not working". Okay, no problem with that. I even have no problem with stating what is an obvious truth: the last mexican president was idiotic enough as to see the american economy as a great way to not do his job and send exess labor up there and that can certaintly be taken as an act of aggression.
What you were doing up there, was saying the state of Mexico is invading your country through a fifth column, and hinting that the Mexican army "helps" drug smugglers.
Let me tell you something, my friend: more people died in Mexico this year due to the drug war we are having here, than american soldiers HAVE DIED IN ALL of the Irak war.
My country is right now dedicating a HUGE part of its resources to an antidrug campaign (which i oppose, but thats not the point) designed to stop drugs from reaching the US (and the side effect is mind bogglingly stupid: cheaper drugs SOUTH the border).
Wanna know how do we meassure if its working or not?
Well, my friend, our indicator is the price of coke in the streets of Manhattan. If that goes up, then we are doing okay. If that goes down, then we are not doing okay.
Each month since the begining of this year, mexican police has arrested really big wigs of the drug trade... but back in the states, it seems no american AT ALL is involved in puting coke in the streets of american cities. Hell, nobody there gets caught for RECEIVING a ten tons of coke. There is no american cartel up there managing an 60-80 BILLION dollar bussiness or none has been identified. No no, its all either the niggers or the mexicans. White people consume, but do not sell drugs. Not on that scale. Really... shesh.
Really, my friend, are you going to stand there and tell me that mexican cartels actually go and sell directly to the hands of american children through some kind of blood pact that only allows mexicans to sell drugs?
Cant it be that there are quite a big number of all-american companies that heavily depend on drug trade for their survival? Cant it be that the US gvmnt actually needs that kind of money to be generated? Cant the plain truth be that drug use and trade is actually okay-and-even-good-for-the-state, as long as its illegal?
I mean, money laundry is quite the financial activity and can even be a civiliztory force: thats why the US gave Las Vegas to the world, isnt it?
But you have the face to tell me that mexicans in the US are the fifth column?
When we are paying down here, with our taxes, to fight a war that we do not want (hell, if it was for us, we would legalize it. In fact, we made drugs illegal because the gringos asked for that and, right NOW, our laws against consumption makes most of the USs anti-drug-use-cities look like a whorehouse-coffeeshop in downtown Amsterdam)?
On the general topic of international occidentalism versus cheap patriotism, understand right now that weather you and i want it or not, the future of our countries (and the people that live in them) is IMPOSSIBLE to separate.
I leave you with that final note: if we acknowledge that there is no way to get rid of each other, aint the best most reasonable and efficient way to cope with each other is to open the border and advocate opening it wide?
Aint it the better way to embrace the new MExUS culture that is CLEARLY emerging, despite efforts from states both sides of the border to assimilate this new mexican americans into either old-style america or old-style mexico?
The new American is not an American, my friend. The new American is an Occidental Citizen, and his color or contry of birth should be of no concern for any other country or citizen of Occident.
We either are moving for that, or we are already in our new dark ages: Rome has fallen.
ReallY? All those wetbacks are the mexican fifth column to get back the large chunk of land that was taken from them???
Man... and all those mexican looking americans count as part of the fifth column or will the just be temporarily detained once you make your mark on the land and USians start listening to you and the heavy problems you oh so mastefully bring forth? By the way, when you say Americans do we count in all those chinese americans in san fran's down town (from Alen Ginsberg -a true American, well deserving of that name with a capital A- alley to market street)? how about that "other" half of chicago? how about most of southern texas? all those karaoke selling koreans in L.A. count as Americans to you? Cause they sure were born in the states and most of them are probably now third and fourth generation americans!.
People like you give your wonderful country (the one that gave Ginsberg and Whitman to the world, the one that allowed for Ezra Pound to exist, the one that made The Beatles every bit as rich as they deserved to be), a BAD NAME. People like you and people like George W. Bush.
What is it that people like you need to start imagining a world were borders do not exist?
I mean, minds far brighter than yours or mine have given us plenty of reasons why occident should be united, they've taught us how the threat is not now towards this or that country, but is nowdays towards our whole culture.
Thats why THE ENEMY right now, is someone like MAhmoud Amedinayad, who hates OCCIDENT, the idea of Christ, and every single one of us that believes that Mohammed just may have been a little less than a prophet of God, who, in turn, may or may not even exist. We also think that everyone should think whatever the fuck they want and Mahmoud hates that idea: he hates occident and YOUR INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM to interpret the world with your own reason (I should stop here really, its clear now that Mahmoud poses NO THREAT to people like YOU). That liberty, by the way, is the result of occident, not the result of anything "american". As far as I know, when the Discourse of the Method was written by Rene Descartes (yes, he also invented liberty fries) way before the US existed.
Our only plausible future, if Occident is to survive, is one where it is aknowledged that Anglo-Americans, Europeans and Latin Americans all share the same values: we believe in jesus, we believe in occidental values: the value of reason over any other way to reaching the truth (we are a cartesian culture), we learned that a philosophy that can be existentialist is possible, attainable, studiable and even tolerable and desireable for our arts (all expressionism, all existensialism comes from the denial of reason as a valid tool to understand reality), but it does take its toll if we let it rule us: thats what gave us Hitler and George Bush: abdicating from reason. All of this we learned by tolerating and by listening two forces within our development: the Roman/Greek/Cartesian, a reasonable force and, on the other hand, our warring, existensialist, goth, death-inclined german-saxon-viking school of thought that actually proposes all those "reason" thingies are okay for dialy life, but in the end, we are all death anyhow: that is our more pragmatic side.
We dont "need" to encumber reason now to govern occident. Its not a "proposal" of mine to have a united occident as soon as possible under one flag.
Its a necesity if we wish for occident and its values to prevail.
Americans like you ignore the responsability of Rome, my friend. Yes, the US is a powerful country, even the strongest in the world. But its also the head of occident. That carries a responsability of millenia.
The question is: will that power be used to further occident and defend its values, or for the petty interest of the emperor and the surrounding cities of loyalist-to-Rome states?
The last time this course was taken, the empire fell and we passed a good milenia in darkness, letting orient grow through i
Shoot, we're farther away now from nuclear war between major powers than we have been since before the Cold War.
My friend, you are clearly misreading the signs of this times.
We are as close today as we have ever been: if it comes to that, any side is willing to shoot... back.
And then you ignore completely that there is no possible "responsible use" of a nuclear device and MUCH LESS of an ICBM. The outcome of that is certain death for all or most life on this planet.
They also discovered the better chunk of computational theory but hey, instead of making it a decent science and fostering that kind of development, they chose to kill the father of computing (after him playing an uttermost important part in winning the second world war for Occident), Alan Turing... because he was gay.
Then there is the other side of the repressive balance: without the brit culture being the ultra-tight metaphorical asshole its always been, would we have had the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Sex Pistols, Monty Python, Sacha Baron Cohen???
We will never know: i, for one, both thank and despise each trait separately.
Nobody is saying its not harmful. What we say, is that its not the devil they have painted, that even sugar or the big mac poses more of a public safety risk than a state where pot is legal.
Its an exageration to look at an online community as a risk to productivity of the call-center.
One can understand your concern AND one can understand the management's concern (which is to not loose their job or tell you before hand that if anything goes wrong it will be your fault, or thats what they are trying to say right here, eluding their own responsability to provide tools to make people more productive because they are afraid that using them might or might not reduce productivity: i mean, did they loose their balls in traffic???).
So, what I am saying here, is that you shouldnt tell them. You should go ahead and start blogging your experiences and then trying to attract others to comment on them and then move on to the community phase, once the approach of knowledge sharing has proven important to the bussiness process.
YES, it would actually be better held in the hands of a normal citizen than in the hands of people that can only think of their next very personal 100 million of wrongfully earned dollars.
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Me too...
I think its the water is what is making them autistic!
AND???
In other news, trees tend to grow up unless they tend to grow down or sideways. Sharks tend to eat anything they can, unless they are not hungry.
Anonymous will beat me to FP for sure, unless they dont.
You know what would be cool?
That the economic crisis put half-baked crazy conspiracy theorists, fear mongers and FUD spreaders (they also call them "analysts" if they actually have a job at a media outlet), out of a job.
Fuck the mods. This is perfectly good historical fact.
Well... complaining is what you are doing now: "hey, these guys are breaking my laws here and either the BP is not doing their job or the gvmnt needs to do something about the regulatory frame cause its clearly not working". Okay, no problem with that. I even have no problem with stating what is an obvious truth: the last mexican president was idiotic enough as to see the american economy as a great way to not do his job and send exess labor up there and that can certaintly be taken as an act of aggression.
What you were doing up there, was saying the state of Mexico is invading your country through a fifth column, and hinting that the Mexican army "helps" drug smugglers.
Let me tell you something, my friend: more people died in Mexico this year due to the drug war we are having here, than american soldiers HAVE DIED IN ALL of the Irak war.
My country is right now dedicating a HUGE part of its resources to an antidrug campaign (which i oppose, but thats not the point) designed to stop drugs from reaching the US (and the side effect is mind bogglingly stupid: cheaper drugs SOUTH the border).
Wanna know how do we meassure if its working or not?
Well, my friend, our indicator is the price of coke in the streets of Manhattan. If that goes up, then we are doing okay. If that goes down, then we are not doing okay.
Each month since the begining of this year, mexican police has arrested really big wigs of the drug trade... but back in the states, it seems no american AT ALL is involved in puting coke in the streets of american cities. Hell, nobody there gets caught for RECEIVING a ten tons of coke. There is no american cartel up there managing an 60-80 BILLION dollar bussiness or none has been identified. No no, its all either the niggers or the mexicans. White people consume, but do not sell drugs. Not on that scale. Really... shesh.
Really, my friend, are you going to stand there and tell me that mexican cartels actually go and sell directly to the hands of american children through some kind of blood pact that only allows mexicans to sell drugs?
Cant it be that there are quite a big number of all-american companies that heavily depend on drug trade for their survival? Cant it be that the US gvmnt actually needs that kind of money to be generated? Cant the plain truth be that drug use and trade is actually okay-and-even-good-for-the-state, as long as its illegal?
I mean, money laundry is quite the financial activity and can even be a civiliztory force: thats why the US gave Las Vegas to the world, isnt it?
But you have the face to tell me that mexicans in the US are the fifth column?
When we are paying down here, with our taxes, to fight a war that we do not want (hell, if it was for us, we would legalize it. In fact, we made drugs illegal because the gringos asked for that and, right NOW, our laws against consumption makes most of the USs anti-drug-use-cities look like a whorehouse-coffeeshop in downtown Amsterdam)?
On the general topic of international occidentalism versus cheap patriotism, understand right now that weather you and i want it or not, the future of our countries (and the people that live in them) is IMPOSSIBLE to separate.
I leave you with that final note: if we acknowledge that there is no way to get rid of each other, aint the best most reasonable and efficient way to cope with each other is to open the border and advocate opening it wide?
Aint it the better way to embrace the new MExUS culture that is CLEARLY emerging, despite efforts from states both sides of the border to assimilate this new mexican americans into either old-style america or old-style mexico?
The new American is not an American, my friend. The new American is an Occidental Citizen, and his color or contry of birth should be of no concern for any other country or citizen of Occident.
We either are moving for that, or we are already in our new dark ages: Rome has fallen.
Holy KukU!!!
ReallY? All those wetbacks are the mexican fifth column to get back the large chunk of land that was taken from them???
Man... and all those mexican looking americans count as part of the fifth column or will the just be temporarily detained once you make your mark on the land and USians start listening to you and the heavy problems you oh so mastefully bring forth? By the way, when you say Americans do we count in all those chinese americans in san fran's down town (from Alen Ginsberg -a true American, well deserving of that name with a capital A- alley to market street)? how about that "other" half of chicago? how about most of southern texas? all those karaoke selling koreans in L.A. count as Americans to you? Cause they sure were born in the states and most of them are probably now third and fourth generation americans!.
People like you give your wonderful country (the one that gave Ginsberg and Whitman to the world, the one that allowed for Ezra Pound to exist, the one that made The Beatles every bit as rich as they deserved to be), a BAD NAME. People like you and people like George W. Bush.
What is it that people like you need to start imagining a world were borders do not exist?
I mean, minds far brighter than yours or mine have given us plenty of reasons why occident should be united, they've taught us how the threat is not now towards this or that country, but is nowdays towards our whole culture.
Thats why THE ENEMY right now, is someone like MAhmoud Amedinayad, who hates OCCIDENT, the idea of Christ, and every single one of us that believes that Mohammed just may have been a little less than a prophet of God, who, in turn, may or may not even exist. We also think that everyone should think whatever the fuck they want and Mahmoud hates that idea: he hates occident and YOUR INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM to interpret the world with your own reason (I should stop here really, its clear now that Mahmoud poses NO THREAT to people like YOU). That liberty, by the way, is the result of occident, not the result of anything "american". As far as I know, when the Discourse of the Method was written by Rene Descartes (yes, he also invented liberty fries) way before the US existed.
Our only plausible future, if Occident is to survive, is one where it is aknowledged that Anglo-Americans, Europeans and Latin Americans all share the same values: we believe in jesus, we believe in occidental values: the value of reason over any other way to reaching the truth (we are a cartesian culture), we learned that a philosophy that can be existentialist is possible, attainable, studiable and even tolerable and desireable for our arts (all expressionism, all existensialism comes from the denial of reason as a valid tool to understand reality), but it does take its toll if we let it rule us: thats what gave us Hitler and George Bush: abdicating from reason. All of this we learned by tolerating and by listening two forces within our development: the Roman/Greek/Cartesian, a reasonable force and, on the other hand, our warring, existensialist, goth, death-inclined german-saxon-viking school of thought that actually proposes all those "reason" thingies are okay for dialy life, but in the end, we are all death anyhow: that is our more pragmatic side.
We dont "need" to encumber reason now to govern occident. Its not a "proposal" of mine to have a united occident as soon as possible under one flag.
Its a necesity if we wish for occident and its values to prevail.
Americans like you ignore the responsability of Rome, my friend. Yes, the US is a powerful country, even the strongest in the world. But its also the head of occident. That carries a responsability of millenia.
The question is: will that power be used to further occident and defend its values, or for the petty interest of the emperor and the surrounding cities of loyalist-to-Rome states?
The last time this course was taken, the empire fell and we passed a good milenia in darkness, letting orient grow through i
Pshew....
I see A&M education still has that "official math" department alive and well.
Yes, and the Bushido code is the reason why killing tens of thousends of civilians at the end of WWII was ok by baby Jesus.
Man.... this generalizations some people make. You know what separates you from a radical islamist?
Nothing, my friend: you are willing to easily think that Mahmoud Amedinayad represents the irani people.
They are willing that you (any westerner actually), and all the israelis they kill, are fully represented by George W. Bush.
Now does that seem fair to you?
Then stop doing it to them.
Shoot, we're farther away now from nuclear war between major powers than we have been since before the Cold War.
My friend, you are clearly misreading the signs of this times.
We are as close today as we have ever been: if it comes to that, any side is willing to shoot... back.
And then you ignore completely that there is no possible "responsible use" of a nuclear device and MUCH LESS of an ICBM. The outcome of that is certain death for all or most life on this planet.
Yup, that's the problem with the brits.
They also discovered the better chunk of computational theory but hey, instead of making it a decent science and fostering that kind of development, they chose to kill the father of computing (after him playing an uttermost important part in winning the second world war for Occident), Alan Turing... because he was gay.
Then there is the other side of the repressive balance: without the brit culture being the ultra-tight metaphorical asshole its always been, would we have had the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Sex Pistols, Monty Python, Sacha Baron Cohen???
We will never know: i, for one, both thank and despise each trait separately.
So, lets turn the earth into a sun...
I like the way you think.
Is that you Monty?
Yeah, thats why we have this crazy velociraptor problem here in L.A.
They did say that IE was a basic building block of their product and that removing it would slow everything down and would make it suck.
Imagine... a windows OS that sucks.
Mind thrashing, ey?
Are now running for their jobs.
Thanks bruce.
Nobody is saying its not harmful. What we say, is that its not the devil they have painted, that even sugar or the big mac poses more of a public safety risk than a state where pot is legal.
Thyself.
Ive seen perfectly useless programmers getting hired by upper-people because they give out the right vibe.
Im sorry, but that is the way to go: get the right vibe for the guy interviewing and experience will mean nothing for them.
Its an exageration to look at an online community as a risk to productivity of the call-center.
One can understand your concern AND one can understand the management's concern (which is to not loose their job or tell you before hand that if anything goes wrong it will be your fault, or thats what they are trying to say right here, eluding their own responsability to provide tools to make people more productive because they are afraid that using them might or might not reduce productivity: i mean, did they loose their balls in traffic???).
So, what I am saying here, is that you shouldnt tell them. You should go ahead and start blogging your experiences and then trying to attract others to comment on them and then move on to the community phase, once the approach of knowledge sharing has proven important to the bussiness process.
Nough said.
Go for the OS version if you dont care about support or can provide it inhouse (which is cool, some Unis can do this).
Now... please dont tell me youre either from UWash or Carnegie, cause then your "switch" is just not acceptable.
Ive got to say this:
YES, it would actually be better held in the hands of a normal citizen than in the hands of people that can only think of their next very personal 100 million of wrongfully earned dollars.
Youve seen the news?
Ozphx makes a well balanced critique of the Cowards work.
A must read, two thumbs up.
"If patriotism is racist, is racism patriotic?"
No.
And green is not lemon. And the orange color does not smell.
He-Lo?
Boy this is getting old. ....
Its cool though.
Can I be the president of your fan club?