Sounds like stuff that was developped quite some time ago, i.e. it was developped by the soviets, not the Russians, at a time when they didn't count the money they put in R&D
Iraq bordered on Ocean... Oh Yeah. One of the major reasons it invaded Kuwait was it had only 10 miles of swampy coasts. Kuweit had much more.
And, please, How does even a fly-every-minute detect object under clouds and fogs? In those conditions such a ship could be useful even against the US.
In many countries it is compulsory, before doing any kind of construction, to do some archaelogical search beforehand. Indeed I'd guess those that wanted the parking built are not so happy about the finding ; they will have to postpone the construction by some time, if not cancel it. OTOH, if this becomes a major tourist attraction, they won't be too unhappy about this.
Not only was that island destroyed in a big volcano explosion, but the island of Crete, which was the most adavanced civilisation near Grece in 1500 BC, got flooded by a Tsunami because of the explosion ; it is quite clear this caused the downfall of the Minoean civilization there. So the myth of Atlantis is very much grounded in fact. No need to go into the Pacific ocean.
Because for 50 years (quite long term),Germany hasn't tried to invade another country, causing millions of deaths, unlike what it used to beforehand. Even with free speech. Because in Rwanda, the radio 1000 hills had free speech, and that caused millions of deaths. Because some sources of free speech are inherently dangerous, have consistently proven to be so, I don't believe absolute free speech, without any censorship, in mass media, to be that much of a necessity, especially when the government is controlled by the people, such as it is the case in Germany. Considering also that Neo-Nazi group recurrently call for murder, and, in Germany as much as in other countries, often commit them. Free Speech is a fundamental liberty, an axiom, in the US only. The fundamental liberties are not the same in Europe.
It is not "thought" control, it is "publication" control. Not the same thing. You can even speak about it with your friend, you know. The word Nazi hasn't been deleted. But of course, If you don't mind seeing Germany under Nazi rule again ( America has an history of supporting right-wing dictatorships in South America, after all...), Then let them speak. Then, ten years later, YOU go fighting them. Free Speech didn't work to avoid totalitarian regime, in the 30's. Because of that, in 1945, the Americans (along with others), have forbidden any German to promote Nazism. It seems the Germans want to keep this law.
Thanks for the troll. Do you know what the (democratically-elected, unlike Saudi Arabia or China) German government is censoring, according to (approved by most Germans) law? Nazi sites. Those that promote the government that "manipulate and control" the German people. Not counting that those laws, forbidding to promote Nazism in Germany, was in 1945 promoted by the American Government (that certainly never censor anything).
Government funded work isn't that same as government work.
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government work is work done by employees of the government. government funded work is work done by people the government is giving money to. pretty close in;y line of work. Also considering that in Europe, most reseachers are paid directly by the government, as employees, unlike in America
Indeed there are other laws than the American one about this process. In France, the artist (Writer, Author, Director, Playwright...) cannot surrender the intellectual property of his work. It is his forever. He can liciense the right to his recording company, but the music is his. I believe it would avoid the troubles American authors are encountering now.
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This happens in movies too. Black and White Silent films are quite hard to see in a theater, and some have been lost... Metropolis, one of the masterpieces of cinema, misses a few reels. Technical evolution, though not as important as in video games, makes some movies "obsolete" : when Gone With The Wind was rescreened in the 60's, it was reframed to a mor modern, wide frame, instead of its original 4:3
Not counting the fact that fun is an important motivation for man's activities... You know, things like mathematics can wait quite some time before finding their applications. Without fundamental research, a few of the objects you use today would not exist (Computer, Car, TV, Electricity, CD player, etc). Without fundamental research, we'd be living like the Amishes. Problem is, no private company plans ten, twenty years ahead. That's the length it usually takes for fundamental research to find its application.
South Korea of course is a prime example of Democratic Capitalism. Dictatorship until ten years ago, huge near-monopolies (the Chaebols) subsidised by the government, providing jobs for life, extremely high corruption... The exact copy of the American Model, really...
What happens is not a limitation of the possibilities of expression, at least in France's film industry.
There is a limit of the percentage of foreign (non-European) programs shozn on broadcast TV. Since Hertzian waves are only rented by the companies, it is normal for the French government to have a say on the nationality of what is shown on TV.
As for the subsidizing of French cinema : firstly, it is not limiting the amount of Americans blockbusters shown in the theaters, don't worry. It allows for the French art of cinema to survive (cinema is considered as an art form as much as an industry over here) . But not only the French one ; many movies made all over the world are also subsidised by this system. And those foreign movies eventually get shown on French TV and in the Theaters.
Exactly how many foreign films have been shown in a theater in America? Much less than in France. Free market is much better at protecting Nationalism than the government.
Of course, if it had been democratically elected leaders who had made the loans... But instead those who borrowed the money were first-world-backed dictators. If I force you to make a loan, will you be happy to have to pay it back?
And it doesn't take 200 years to develop into an industrialized countries. Taiwan and South Korea did it in 50 years.
The third world countries borrowed money when the rates of the goods they were exporting were high. Then the rates went down ; now the third world countries can't pay back their debt. Third world countries had no real control over those rates, yet they should live in poverty forever? It is the first world's job to cancel those debts, not out of charity, but out of solidarity and fraternity. Because they really deserve being able to develop, and that is not possible in stateless countries.
The US government does care, it just doesn't tell about it. There are huge oil and gas resources in Kazakhstan, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan.... which are not exploited right now because the oil can't be ttransported out of central Asia. The easiest way would be to build an oleoduct through either Iran or Afghanistan. Since Iran definitely doesn't like the US oil companies, the US and Pakistan sponsored the Taliban to bring stability there, so that building that oleoduct would be possible. However the Taliban proved unmanageable. So, indeed, there is some money involment for the Oil companies in Afghanistan
The problem is, often the private sector doesn't want to provide the service under acceptable conditions. For example, in France large areas aren't covered by cell phone companies, since they don't expect to make a profit by covering them. This means those rural areas will become even more unattractive, people will leave them faster... On the other hand, the phone network was state-built. Everyone has cheap access to phone, which/is/ a basic necessity now. The problem with letting private companies cover such necessities is that only the wealthiest districts will get them, while poorer one will be forgotten.
How many votes did Bush get to be elected president? each country got his peculiar election system, that is no way to unlegitimate an elected Prime Minister. Nationalization is often necessary to help a country survive, and remember that even theft is petty crime compared to the destruction of a democracy and the killing of a few thousands opponents.
Salvodor Allende was toppled, and subsequently killed, by the military, helped by Kissinger. It was during Allende's first term, and he had neither remained in power by military force, nor stopped any election. Pinochet's regime subsequently killed 3000 politial prisoners.
Allende's regime was in no way criminal, either. Spreading FUD to justify ciminal actions by one government's is called propaganda. And please note that the "stopping the elections" argument could backfire on Bush...(Though that is hardly the reason for those terrorists attacks)
Sure. Let the Taleban be overthrown, let them install a democratic government. That's what Latin America countries had been doing in the 70's. However, the people they elected had leftists leanings. Their governments where overthrown by the US. Talk about US sponsored Democracy if you want, but it hasn't happened since the Marshall plan.
As far as I know, the US help to poor countries amounts to a whooping....003 percent of the US's GNP. THAT's generosity! I'd bet the same amount goes back to US companies collecting debt interests.
And please stop whining about "The US don't get humanitarian help". Right now, and for a week, French earthquake specialists are waiting to go help the New Yorkers. They are not wanted! And of course, thanks to strict building laws, the US hardly ever really need humanitarian help. Even the casualties of the WTC disaster amounts to a fifth of the average earthquake in India (where were the mourning Americans then?).
BTW The Nile hasn't flooded in 50 years. Before that the concept of humanitarian help hardly existed. I bet there has only rarely been flooding disasters on the Nile, anyway.
When was the last time American's were dancing in the streets because some Palestians or Iraqi's died in an attack? Honestly, that's what has me the most sick. It's one thing for someone to be a terrorist and kill a few thousand people, it's even worse to be happy about it.
Look closely at the shots of the celebration. Count the people you can see rejoicing. In all the shots I have seen, no more than a dozen, and most of them youth or children. Many people behind them do not seem that happy. The shots are in close-up.
It is quite plausible the journalists have slightly manipulated the reality. A handful of palestinians where happy, and only in Naplouse and East Jerusalem. That does not make "all the palestinians".
Check your facts. Saddam is nearly Atheist for practical matters. Unlike most of the region's leaders, he does not styles himself "leader of the believers" or anything like this. That is why the western world helped him against Iran in the 80's. That is also why I think, though I could be wrong, that it is unlikely Bin Laden and Saddam are linked. Bin Laden only needs a place of residence, as a billionaire he doesn't need money.
Then lets talk about the Gulf War. On TV the "chirugical" bombings were shown. But there were B52's attacking too. Those planes have no precise bombing capabilities. They are used for carpet bombing, which means intentional killing of civilians. The casualties in Iraq were over 200 000! That's no "military only" targets.
The WTC should be considered a civilian target, but remember that Wall Street is essential for the survival of US economy. Like some civilian-worked factories. There were also reservists among the workers in WTC. That can also be considered as "soldiers hidden among the civilians". Applying your reasoning to the attacks, they can be seen as legitimate. Be careful!
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Sounds like stuff that was developped quite some time ago, i.e. it was developped by the soviets, not the Russians, at a time when they didn't count the money they put in R&D
Iraq bordered on Ocean... Oh Yeah. One of the major reasons it invaded Kuwait was it had only 10 miles of swampy coasts. Kuweit had much more.
And, please, How does even a fly-every-minute detect object under clouds and fogs? In those conditions such a ship could be useful even against the US.
In many countries it is compulsory, before doing any kind of construction, to do some archaelogical search beforehand. Indeed I'd guess those that wanted the parking built are not so happy about the finding ; they will have to postpone the construction by some time, if not cancel it. OTOH, if this becomes a major tourist attraction, they won't be too unhappy about this.
Not only was that island destroyed in a big volcano explosion, but the island of Crete, which was the most adavanced civilisation near Grece in 1500 BC, got flooded by a Tsunami because of the explosion ; it is quite clear this caused the downfall of the Minoean civilization there. So the myth of Atlantis is very much grounded in fact. No need to go into the Pacific ocean.
Because for 50 years (quite long term),Germany hasn't tried to invade another country, causing millions of deaths, unlike what it used to beforehand. Even with free speech. Because in Rwanda, the radio 1000 hills had free speech, and that caused millions of deaths. Because some sources of free speech are inherently dangerous, have consistently proven to be so, I don't believe absolute free speech, without any censorship, in mass media, to be that much of a necessity, especially when the government is controlled by the people, such as it is the case in Germany. Considering also that Neo-Nazi group recurrently call for murder, and, in Germany as much as in other countries, often commit them. Free Speech is a fundamental liberty, an axiom, in the US only. The fundamental liberties are not the same in Europe.
It is not "thought" control, it is "publication" control. Not the same thing. You can even speak about it with your friend, you know. The word Nazi hasn't been deleted. But of course, If you don't mind seeing Germany under Nazi rule again ( America has an history of supporting right-wing dictatorships in South America, after all...), Then let them speak. Then, ten years later, YOU go fighting them. Free Speech didn't work to avoid totalitarian regime, in the 30's. Because of that, in 1945, the Americans (along with others), have forbidden any German to promote Nazism. It seems the Germans want to keep this law.
Thanks for the troll. Do you know what the (democratically-elected, unlike Saudi Arabia or China) German government is censoring, according to (approved by most Germans) law? Nazi sites. Those that promote the government that "manipulate and control" the German people. Not counting that those laws, forbidding to promote Nazism in Germany, was in 1945 promoted by the American Government (that certainly never censor anything).
Government funded work isn't that same as government work.
?????
government work is work done by employees of the government. government funded work is work done by people the government is giving money to. pretty close in ;y line of work. Also considering that in Europe, most reseachers are paid directly by the government, as employees, unlike in America
Indeed there are other laws than the American one about this process. In France, the artist (Writer, Author, Director, Playwright...) cannot surrender the intellectual property of his work. It is his forever. He can liciense the right to his recording company, but the music is his. I believe it would avoid the troubles American authors are encountering now.
This happens in movies too. Black and White Silent films are quite hard to see in a theater, and some have been lost... Metropolis, one of the masterpieces of cinema, misses a few reels. Technical evolution, though not as important as in video games, makes some movies "obsolete" : when Gone With The Wind was rescreened in the 60's, it was reframed to a mor modern, wide frame, instead of its original 4:3
Not counting the fact that fun is an important motivation for man's activities... You know, things like mathematics can wait quite some time before finding their applications. Without fundamental research, a few of the objects you use today would not exist (Computer, Car, TV, Electricity, CD player, etc). Without fundamental research, we'd be living like the Amishes. Problem is, no private company plans ten, twenty years ahead. That's the length it usually takes for fundamental research to find its application.
South Korea of course is a prime example of Democratic Capitalism. Dictatorship until ten years ago, huge near-monopolies (the Chaebols) subsidised by the government, providing jobs for life, extremely high corruption... The exact copy of the American Model, really...
What happens is not a limitation of the possibilities of expression, at least in France's film industry.
There is a limit of the percentage of foreign (non-European) programs shozn on broadcast TV. Since Hertzian waves are only rented by the companies, it is normal for the French government to have a say on the nationality of what is shown on TV.
As for the subsidizing of French cinema : firstly, it is not limiting the amount of Americans blockbusters shown in the theaters, don't worry. It allows for the French art of cinema to survive (cinema is considered as an art form as much as an industry over here) . But not only the French one ; many movies made all over the world are also subsidised by this system. And those foreign movies eventually get shown on French TV and in the Theaters.
Exactly how many foreign films have been shown in a theater in America? Much less than in France. Free market is much better at protecting Nationalism than the government.
Of course, if it had been democratically elected leaders who had made the loans... But instead those who borrowed the money were first-world-backed dictators. If I force you to make a loan, will you be happy to have to pay it back?
And it doesn't take 200 years to develop into an industrialized countries. Taiwan and South Korea did it in 50 years.
The third world countries borrowed money when the rates of the goods they were exporting were high. Then the rates went down ; now the third world countries can't pay back their debt. Third world countries had no real control over those rates, yet they should live in poverty forever? It is the first world's job to cancel those debts, not out of charity, but out of solidarity and fraternity. Because they really deserve being able to develop, and that is not possible in stateless countries.
The US government does care, it just doesn't tell about it. There are huge oil and gas resources in Kazakhstan, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan.... which are not exploited right now because the oil can't be ttransported out of central Asia. The easiest way would be to build an oleoduct through either Iran or Afghanistan. Since Iran definitely doesn't like the US oil companies, the US and Pakistan sponsored the Taliban to bring stability there, so that building that oleoduct would be possible. However the Taliban proved unmanageable. So, indeed, there is some money involment for the Oil companies in Afghanistan
England is a special case. In France's best universities (l'Ecole Polytechnique and Normale Sup), you are paid during your education...
The problem is, often the private sector doesn't want to provide the service under acceptable conditions. For example, in France large areas aren't covered by cell phone companies, since they don't expect to make a profit by covering them. This means those rural areas will become even more unattractive, people will leave them faster... On the other hand, the phone network was state-built. Everyone has cheap access to phone, which /is/ a basic necessity now. The problem with letting private companies cover such necessities is that only the wealthiest districts will get them, while poorer one will be forgotten.
How many votes did Bush get to be elected president? each country got his peculiar election system, that is no way to unlegitimate an elected Prime Minister. Nationalization is often necessary to help a country survive, and remember that even theft is petty crime compared to the destruction of a democracy and the killing of a few thousands opponents.
Do we live in the same world?
Salvodor Allende was toppled, and subsequently killed, by the military, helped by Kissinger. It was during Allende's first term, and he had neither remained in power by military force, nor stopped any election. Pinochet's regime subsequently killed 3000 politial prisoners.
Allende's regime was in no way criminal, either. Spreading FUD to justify ciminal actions by one government's is called propaganda. And please note that the "stopping the elections" argument could backfire on Bush...(Though that is hardly the reason for those terrorists attacks)
Sure. Let the Taleban be overthrown, let them install a democratic government. That's what Latin America countries had been doing in the 70's. However, the people they elected had leftists leanings. Their governments where overthrown by the US. Talk about US sponsored Democracy if you want, but it hasn't happened since the Marshall plan.
As far as I know, the US help to poor countries amounts to a whooping... .003 percent of the US's GNP. THAT's generosity! I'd bet the same amount goes back to US companies collecting debt interests.
And please stop whining about "The US don't get humanitarian help". Right now, and for a week, French earthquake specialists are waiting to go help the New Yorkers. They are not wanted! And of course, thanks to strict building laws, the US hardly ever really need humanitarian help. Even the casualties of the WTC disaster amounts to a fifth of the average earthquake in India (where were the mourning Americans then?).
BTW The Nile hasn't flooded in 50 years. Before that the concept of humanitarian help hardly existed. I bet there has only rarely been flooding disasters on the Nile, anyway.
When was the last time American's were dancing in the streets because some Palestians or Iraqi's died in an attack? Honestly, that's what has me the most sick. It's one thing for someone to be a terrorist and kill a few thousand people, it's even worse to be happy about it.
Look closely at the shots of the celebration. Count the people you can see rejoicing. In all the shots I have seen, no more than a dozen, and most of them youth or children. Many people behind them do not seem that happy. The shots are in close-up.
It is quite plausible the journalists have slightly manipulated the reality. A handful of palestinians where happy, and only in Naplouse and East Jerusalem. That does not make "all the palestinians".
...Saddam who calls himself Muslim...
Check your facts. Saddam is nearly Atheist for practical matters. Unlike most of the region's leaders, he does not styles himself "leader of the believers" or anything like this. That is why the western world helped him against Iran in the 80's. That is also why I think, though I could be wrong, that it is unlikely Bin Laden and Saddam are linked. Bin Laden only needs a place of residence, as a billionaire he doesn't need money.
Then lets talk about the Gulf War. On TV the "chirugical" bombings were shown. But there were B52's attacking too. Those planes have no precise bombing capabilities. They are used for carpet bombing, which means intentional killing of civilians. The casualties in Iraq were over 200 000! That's no "military only" targets.
The WTC should be considered a civilian target, but remember that Wall Street is essential for the survival of US economy. Like some civilian-worked factories. There were also reservists among the workers in WTC. That can also be considered as "soldiers hidden among the civilians". Applying your reasoning to the attacks, they can be seen as legitimate. Be careful!