1. The food portions are smaller than a few years ago. Go every day. Then you will hardly notice when they get smaller.
2. The price is WAY WAY higher! Than what?? If you're comparing with a few years ago, see point #1.
3. People's cell phones are going off. Build a Faraday cage over the building before you go in.
4. Some a**hole is giving comentary to the person sitting next to him/her. Hmmm.. this is a tough one. I'm torn between a paintball gun and something like this.
The real problems are in steel tarriffs and agricultural subsidies, that a nation that touts free trade (and the EU is just as bad here) resorts to protectionism and barely-disguised mercantilism at the first sign of trouble. Trouble's when you need your principles the most, not the least.
Sigh...
This has been going on for too long in the USA and the reason is simple. Most voters in the US don't give a rats ass. Two recent situations come to mind.
The whole genetically modified foodstuff debacle. The problem is that the US has granted patents on GM strains of common foodstuffs. Then when GM strains pollute natural crops with patented genes, farmers get sued into oblivion. Then, when third world countries turn down "donations" of GM food , US aid officials criticize them. What everyone seemed to miss (unsurprisingly) is that if Zimbabwe accepted the GM maize and then their local crops "somehow" became polluted with patented GM strains, they would soon be in a position where they would have to pay IP lawyers and US corporations to enable their people to eat locally produced food.
The other issue is protectionism. I won't even touch the steel issue. It reeks too badly. Instead, let's consider the current softwood lumber dispute with Canada. (if you say "What dispute?" my point is made) The protectionism in this dispute is almost as rampant as the corruption. The bottom line being that a select group of southern lumber barons profit while average Americans pay $3000 more for new housing. Oh, don't forget the 50,000 Canadians who were put out of work. The fact that the WTO will eventually overturn this does not negate the impact it has on profits, costs and jobs in the short term. If this is how we treat our closest ally, it's no wonder our enemies hate us.
Look at the big picture, people.
Sorry, looking at the big picture is simply too difficult for most Americans. It requires critical thinking and the ability to look at our own behaviour objectively. Point being, as long as Joe Sixpack has a job and Monday Night Football, most Americans just don't care.
Mmmmm, no. Think back to '42, when the government wanted to go to war, but the American people wanted nothing to do with it. A little slack intelligence here, a little willful blindness to the facts there and a little sheer bumbling error and voila, a public relations coup for the war effort. (Any of this sounding familiar??) The big difference with 9/11 was the objective. Rather than putting down a monster, this "war" is all about profit (United Defense shares in your portfolio??) and oil. In the process, they'll strip a few freedoms from the people (all in the name of security). If left unchecked, it could easily have led to a totalitarian military government in the USA. Luckily, the bumbling errors and buffoonery in Washington have prevented that outcome. But it's good to always think of the two cardinal rules of any situation, especially in politics. Who benefits and follow the money. You'll usually end up with the real story, not the one that was manufactured for the media.
Fuji S602Z in Macro mode and Textbridge 8.0. Take it as a 6MP tiff file (19MB) at 6in. to 12in. from the page (distance didn't seem to matter) and I got it all. Worked on my copy of Unfinished Tales printed in 1966.
Before the canal. Study history in any other country and you'd know about the French, the private sector and how lawyers got a bad name. Study history in America... ???
- people who adopt IE only standards are stupid because the piss away 25% of potential users.
- people should abandon older standards for W3C
What is logically inconsistant about those two statements?
Authors want and write backwards compatibility in order not to piss off the friggin users who use older browsers! Get a clue pill dude.
IE only extensions force people on other platforms to change platforms. Standards compliant HTML forces people to upgrade their browsers. Which would you rather do??
If this was used movies and used CD's, the various **AA's would be all over it. Can someone explain the difference between the latest book, the latest movie and the latest music CD as it pertains to property?
Prepare for the terrorists to unleash a biological agent that will sweep the U.S. like a brushfire. All of the scientists who can stop it will soon be dead.
the military position (uphill on the gravity well compared to earth)
Read "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" by R. A. Heinlein. The moon is the ultimate military base. Build a rail gun and hurl rocks at your enemies. Great fun and totally devastating in a non-nuclear kind of way.
In time, it's possible that more logic and less emotion will be used to make these decisions.
Consider the logic. All 19 terrorists were Saudi. The US attacks Afghanistan. Consider economics. The US buys large quantities of oil from Saudi Arabia. The US would like to buy large quantities of oil from Turkmenistan to lessen their dependence on the benevolence of Saudi Arabia. Unfortunately, the Taliban were in control of the country that the needed pipeline would need to cross.
Solutions: Change the government in Afghanistan to get to the richest oilfields in the world. Don't invade Saudi Arabia to kick the terrorist governments butt and jeoprodize the US oil supply. Once you get by the hypocrisy of it all, it's really quite simple. It's all about maintaining the "American Way Of Life"tm at all costs. Everything else is window dressing.
[16] And he shall make all, both little and great, rich and poor, freemen and bondmen, to have a character in their right hand, or on their foreheads. [17] And that no man might buy or sell, but he that hath the character, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
we live in a nation where our government's corruption is minimal RELATIVE TO MOST OTHER COUNTRIES
If you were to replace the word "minimal" with "less obvious" you might have a point. Do a web search on the Carlyle Group, United Defense, the Saudi Bin Laden family and George Bush Senior. Then we'll talk about corruption. Never mind the whole Enron/President Of The United States thing. Corruption in American society has become so common place that it is hardly worth mentioning. Not to mention that it is human nature to actively seek out other people's flaws while sweeping your own messes under the rug.
And if there were no Nike employing 25,000 people in that "peasant" camp, there would be 25,000 less jobs and 25,000 * meager wage less money being brought into that country and to those people.
If you take away their jobs, you create 25,000 potential revolutionaries, ready to make the capitalist pigs pay. If you give them a little hope for a better life though, you keep them contained. The key is in giving them enough that they don't want to rip your lungs out, but still maximize profits, so that the aforementioned capitalist pigs still get their new Mercedes.
Those businesses, if they were to choose a Microsoft OS, would choose Windows 2000
Uh, correct me if I'm wrong, but what did these business' do for a desktop OS before Win2K came out? Win98 was the "desktop" standard for many business' for quite a while.
Yes, what I just said might easily be taken as harsh, but please realize that people who have been "battle-hardened" by capitalism get to a point where we/they simply cannot appreciate the whines of people who would choose not to work for what they get in life, but instead would choose to have their government send sacks of free rice to their doorstep on an ongoing basis.
By that philosophy, you wouldn't mind then if the government imposed a 100% death tax and disallowed gifts of capital or real estate to children. That way you could make it on your own according to your own merits rather than riding on inherited money.
The truth of your "Capitalist Democracy" is that the ones with the capital can buy all the democracy they want. And everyone else can go pound sand.
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likely to push christmas and other christian holidays
Do you actually believe that Christmas has anything to do with Christ or Christianity?? Where did you go to school?
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The United States system of fairness, work ethic, innovation and competition makes us extremely successful.
Don't forget legislation. When the above doesn't work to your advantage, you always resort to legislation. 20 years ago, the major forest product companies in Canada recognized a major lack of productivity in their sawmills as compared to the U.S. They embarked on a multi-billion dollar upgrade which now makes their processing capability second to none in the world. Through modernizing their industry, they were able to produce more wood more efficiently than any other country in the world. Compare this to the U.S. companies. They were content to keep pouring diminishing amounts of raw lumber (already cut it all and never bothered to replant) through very antiquated, labour-intensive mills. The result: a lack of raw lumber and poor productivity and high cost products. The solution: 29% tariffs on finished lumber from Canada and welcoming shipments of raw logs from Russia and Europe.
You might want to rethink the "fairness, work ethic, innovation and competition" part of your thinking. Don't forget that Canada is your number one trading partner and friend. Just imagine what your "Department Of Commerce (Protectionism when we can't play fairly) has done to your ENEMIES!!
I choose to disregard the rest of your post as intolerance. But then, given your innovative education system, what more could I expect.
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1. The food portions are smaller than a few years ago.
Go every day. Then you will hardly notice when they get smaller.
2. The price is WAY WAY higher!
Than what?? If you're comparing with a few years ago, see point #1.
3. People's cell phones are going off.
Build a Faraday cage over the building before you go in.
4. Some a**hole is giving comentary to the person sitting next to him/her.
Hmmm.. this is a tough one. I'm torn between a paintball gun and something like this.
The real problems are in steel tarriffs and agricultural subsidies, that a nation that touts free trade (and the EU is just as bad here) resorts to protectionism and barely-disguised mercantilism at the first sign of trouble. Trouble's when you need your principles the most, not the least.
Sigh...
This has been going on for too long in the USA and the reason is simple. Most voters in the US don't give a rats ass. Two recent situations come to mind.
The whole genetically modified foodstuff debacle. The problem is that the US has granted patents on GM strains of common foodstuffs. Then when GM strains pollute natural crops with patented genes, farmers get sued into oblivion. Then, when third world countries turn down "donations" of GM food , US aid officials criticize them. What everyone seemed to miss (unsurprisingly) is that if Zimbabwe accepted the GM maize and then their local crops "somehow" became polluted with patented GM strains, they would soon be in a position where they would have to pay IP lawyers and US corporations to enable their people to eat locally produced food.
The other issue is protectionism. I won't even touch the steel issue. It reeks too badly. Instead, let's consider the current softwood lumber dispute with Canada. (if you say "What dispute?" my point is made) The protectionism in this dispute is almost as rampant as the corruption. The bottom line being that a select group of southern lumber barons profit while average Americans pay $3000 more for new housing. Oh, don't forget the 50,000 Canadians who were put out of work. The fact that the WTO will eventually overturn this does not negate the impact it has on profits, costs and jobs in the short term. If this is how we treat our closest ally, it's no wonder our enemies hate us.
Look at the big picture, people.
Sorry, looking at the big picture is simply too difficult for most Americans. It requires critical thinking and the ability to look at our own behaviour objectively. Point being, as long as Joe Sixpack has a job and Monday Night Football, most Americans just don't care.
Mmmmm, no. Think back to '42, when the government wanted to go to war, but the American people wanted nothing to do with it. A little slack intelligence here, a little willful blindness to the facts there and a little sheer bumbling error and voila, a public relations coup for the war effort. (Any of this sounding familiar??) The big difference with 9/11 was the objective. Rather than putting down a monster, this "war" is all about profit (United Defense shares in your portfolio??) and oil. In the process, they'll strip a few freedoms from the people (all in the name of security). If left unchecked, it could easily have led to a totalitarian military government in the USA. Luckily, the bumbling errors and buffoonery in Washington have prevented that outcome. But it's good to always think of the two cardinal rules of any situation, especially in politics. Who benefits and follow the money. You'll usually end up with the real story, not the one that was manufactured for the media.
Fuji S602Z in Macro mode and Textbridge 8.0. Take it as a 6MP tiff file (19MB) at 6in. to 12in. from the page (distance didn't seem to matter) and I got it all. Worked on my copy of Unfinished Tales printed in 1966.
Before the canal. Study history in any other country and you'd know about the French, the private sector and how lawyers got a bad name. Study history in America... ???
Hmmm... Sony allows mod chips, stock goes up. Microsoft doesn't allow modchips, stock goes down. Go get 'em Microsoft!!
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They could try. And when one of the researchers turned whistleblower then the company would get ripped to shreds. Literally.
Or
this
could happen to them.
Let me get this striaght... he sez:
- people who adopt IE only standards are stupid because the piss away 25% of potential users.
- people should abandon older standards for W3C
What is logically inconsistant about those two statements?
Authors want and write backwards compatibility in order not to piss off the friggin users who use older browsers! Get a clue pill dude.
IE only extensions force people on other platforms to change platforms. Standards compliant HTML forces people to upgrade their browsers. Which would you rather do??
The problem is that if they go along with the RIAA and censor, they'll then be subjected to 100 bajillion other censor requests.
All at a reasonable implementation fee. Say $5k per request per ISP.
Remove the boot floppy from the disk drive.
Remove the floppy drive.
A toddler shit so.
If this was used movies and used CD's, the various **AA's would be all over it. Can someone explain the difference between the latest book, the latest movie and the latest music CD as it pertains to property?
Prepare for the terrorists to unleash a biological agent that will sweep the U.S. like a brushfire. All of the scientists who can stop it will soon be dead.
Do you see any place for Linux on the desktop? If so, will you be able to fend off the PC hardware group better than the OS/2 group did in the past?
the military position (uphill on the gravity well compared to earth)
Read "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" by R. A. Heinlein. The moon is the ultimate military base. Build a rail gun and hurl rocks at your enemies. Great fun and totally devastating in a non-nuclear kind of way.
Better yet, sic the BSA on them. Anonymous tip anyone??
In time, it's possible that more logic and less emotion will be used to make these decisions.
Consider the logic. All 19 terrorists were Saudi. The US attacks Afghanistan.
Consider economics. The US buys large quantities of oil from Saudi Arabia. The US would like to buy large quantities of oil from Turkmenistan to lessen their dependence on the benevolence of Saudi Arabia. Unfortunately, the Taliban were in control of the country that the needed pipeline would need to cross.
Solutions: Change the government in Afghanistan to get to the richest oilfields in the world. Don't invade Saudi Arabia to kick the terrorist governments butt and jeoprodize the US oil supply. Once you get by the hypocrisy of it all, it's really quite simple. It's all about maintaining the "American Way Of Life"tm at all costs. Everything else is window dressing.
[16] And he shall make all, both little and great, rich and poor, freemen and bondmen, to have a character in their right hand, or on their foreheads.
[17] And that no man might buy or sell, but he that hath the character, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Revelation 13:16-17
we live in a nation where our government's corruption is minimal RELATIVE TO MOST OTHER COUNTRIES
If you were to replace the word "minimal" with "less obvious" you might have a point. Do a web search on the Carlyle Group, United Defense, the Saudi Bin Laden family and George Bush Senior. Then we'll talk about corruption. Never mind the whole Enron/President Of The United States thing. Corruption in American society has become so common place that it is hardly worth mentioning. Not to mention that it is human nature to actively seek out other people's flaws while sweeping your own messes under the rug.
And if there were no Nike employing 25,000 people in that "peasant" camp, there would be 25,000 less jobs and 25,000 * meager wage less money being brought into that country and to those people.
If you take away their jobs, you create 25,000 potential revolutionaries, ready to make the capitalist pigs pay. If you give them a little hope for a better life though, you keep them contained. The key is in giving them enough that they don't want to rip your lungs out, but still maximize profits, so that the aforementioned capitalist pigs still get their new Mercedes.
Those businesses, if they were to choose a Microsoft OS, would choose Windows 2000
Uh, correct me if I'm wrong, but what did these business' do for a desktop OS before Win2K came out? Win98 was the "desktop" standard for many business' for quite a while.
Yes, what I just said might easily be taken as harsh, but please realize that people who have been "battle-hardened" by capitalism get to a point where we/they simply cannot appreciate the whines of people who would choose not to work for what they get in life, but instead would choose to have their government send sacks of free rice to their doorstep on an ongoing basis.
By that philosophy, you wouldn't mind then if the government imposed a 100% death tax and disallowed gifts of capital or real estate to children. That way you could make it on your own according to your own merits rather than riding on inherited money.
The truth of your "Capitalist Democracy" is that the ones with the capital can buy all the democracy they want. And everyone else can go pound sand.
Slightly ahead of Cuba. More research needed.
likely to push christmas and other christian holidays
Do you actually believe that Christmas has anything to do with Christ or Christianity?? Where did you go to school?
The United States system of fairness, work ethic, innovation and competition makes us extremely successful.
Don't forget legislation. When the above doesn't work to your advantage, you always resort to legislation. 20 years ago, the major forest product companies in Canada recognized a major lack of productivity in their sawmills as compared to the U.S. They embarked on a multi-billion dollar upgrade which now makes their processing capability second to none in the world. Through modernizing their industry, they were able to produce more wood more efficiently than any other country in the world. Compare this to the U.S. companies. They were content to keep pouring diminishing amounts of raw lumber (already cut it all and never bothered to replant) through very antiquated, labour-intensive mills. The result: a lack of raw lumber and poor productivity and high cost products. The solution: 29% tariffs on finished lumber from Canada and welcoming shipments of raw logs from Russia and Europe.
You might want to rethink the "fairness, work ethic, innovation and competition" part of your thinking. Don't forget that Canada is your number one trading partner and friend. Just imagine what your "Department Of Commerce (Protectionism when we can't play fairly) has done to your ENEMIES!!
I choose to disregard the rest of your post as intolerance. But then, given your innovative education system, what more could I expect.