what matters is what property you own, what family you grew up in, the positions of your friends
How wonderfully true! So get a wife, make some friends, save up for a house of your own and quit whining and trying to turn our country into a socio-feminist nanny-state like Canada. Talking about 'labor' and 'the Rich stealing Bread from the Mouths of the poor' makes it clear to everyone around you just why your trust-fund baby education has failed you. Should've gone to that community college instead.
Land of the Free (free to make it, free to fail)
Home of the Brave (willing to take chances, make sacrifices and suffer gracefully when neccessary, without turning tail and running for the imaginary shelter of Marxist ideology)
A critical state is always percieved as a collapse, when it's usually more of a change, from one state to another.
This sort of change is painful and alarming to be sure, but rarely turns out to be as destructive or harmful as first imagined to be by those clinging to the first state and bracing for the impact of the second state.
The Japanese will always be the trend-setter in terms of quality storytelling in anime. It's now up to them to keep raising the bar higher, forcing others to follow. If they stay true to their original vision, they'll be fine.
Outsourcing, at the macro level is great. At the micro, or personal level, when it's your job on the line, clearly it hurts.
Most of the 'anti-outsourcing' rhetoric strives to convince EVERYONE that his or her job is 'next' for outsourcing.
This is simply not true.
The rhetoric also stresses the idea that outsourcing equals "American Jobs Moving Overseas".
That's only half true. It's a two-way street. 'They' can (and will) outsource to us.
As 'they' create a better economy of their own, they will also want to buy more of our stuff, and visit our wonderful country and eat our food and so on.
Outsourcing also means more startups and small companies over here. There will be fewer Oracle's and Microsoft's with 1,000's of employees, but more small firms with tens of employees. There are a LOT of aspects of software/project development which don't export well. Those are the opportunities you can take advantage of, if you're not already creating your own.
If you really care about your country and people in general, you should be thinking at this macro level, and not harping on about your friend who lost his job and now can't find one that pays the same. I feel for him, but I don't want legislation enacted to create an artificial labor 'game preserve' for him to play in.
Sorry. Change is constant and change is painful. Roll with the punches. If you can't make it here, you can't make it anywhere.
I do all the things you just mentioned with our dialup (shared wirelessly, no less ; ) connection at home. If it takes me an extra 5 minutes more than it takes you, who cares? I don't.
No, congratulations to you again, my friend, because you're just like the rest of us. You enjoy seeing actual 'fucking citations' for the quotes you read, along with their context, in articles supporting your point of view.
Don't even pretend for a minute that the presence of 'citations' for a Daily Howler article makes that article even the slightest bit more 'truthful' (or less) than the info-tainment of a Hannity or an O'Rielly.
They have citations too, but because the citations support a pov you find apalling, you write them off as 'lies' or 'spin' or what-have-you, the same way Conservative Creeps like me write off the raving nutbags at the Daily Howler!
You don't build it and then get it up to spin, silly. You build it spinning, period, using tethers or whatever to maintain the discrete components in orbit around the sun from the git-go.
You know, even after weeding out the typical 'crackpot' angle's that fluff up the piece, there is the none-the-less compelling question as to why the rover veered (veered, not slipped) to squash the bunny-thing.
I mean really, why?
And why say "whoa, slippage!" to the press, when it doesn't look as though there was any slippage of any sort whatsoever?
And why is there no better image of the 'bunny' in any of the panoramic pics? Even if it was just junk from the lander, it would be interesting, but it didn't look to be the case as it seemed to be buried in the soil somewhat.
I mean, does it not look to most of you as though the lander intentionally backed over that specific object at least once if not twice? Does it not strike you as at least a little wacky that the 'slippage' should eradicate the bunny junk so completely?
Forget the Masons, Meninblack and UFO's. Just explain to me what's in the freekin' picture!
That's NOT incredible...
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Please, please stop using the word 'incredibly' to describe things that, incredibly, are really quite credible after all.
The book is similar to Neverwhere? Good. Thanks for the info, but pardon me if my eyes don't exactly widen with amazement.
Mieville's writing style is similar to Gaiman's but different? Fine. It's nice to know, but exactly leave me choking on my sandwich.
Ahh...the scent of freshly picked nits!
Re:Spirit not that impressive...?
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Gotta love them Cold War Russians...putting WarHammer style spikes on their Venus lander.
I wonder if it had a spear for a flag-pole with an American skull on it?
...but you HAVE to make your way in this world. There's no getting out of it. You can join the military or a religious/cult commune, but otherwise you've got to pay your way.
You'll figure it out, and you'll do better than you think. You'll also find it's not so bad, and that you're not alone.
You're absolutely right. The endless search for happiness without pain is a fruitless and endless loop, and is more than anything...the source of our unhappiness!
Very soon there will be nowhere to hide, as flying/airborne networks of 'bugs' with full audio-visual capability will be all over, indoors and out, in due time. There's no way to stop this and I'm not saying we should try, but it will make life 'interesting' in ways we can barely conceive of right now.
Mosquito nets, repellant and bugspray will take on new meanings in the not-too-distant future.
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what matters is what property you own, what family you grew up in, the positions of your friends
How wonderfully true! So get a wife, make some friends, save up for a house of your own and quit whining and trying to turn our country into a socio-feminist nanny-state like Canada. Talking about 'labor' and 'the Rich stealing Bread from the Mouths of the poor' makes it clear to everyone around you just why your trust-fund baby education has failed you. Should've gone to that community college instead.
Land of the Free (free to make it, free to fail)
Home of the Brave (willing to take chances, make sacrifices and suffer gracefully when neccessary, without turning tail and running for the imaginary shelter of Marxist ideology)
A critical state is always percieved as a collapse, when it's usually more of a change, from one state to another.
This sort of change is painful and alarming to be sure, but rarely turns out to be as destructive or harmful as first imagined to be by those clinging to the first state and bracing for the impact of the second state.
The Japanese will always be the trend-setter in terms of quality storytelling in anime. It's now up to them to keep raising the bar higher, forcing others to follow. If they stay true to their original vision, they'll be fine.
Outsourcing, at the macro level is great. At the micro, or personal level, when it's your job on the line, clearly it hurts.
Most of the 'anti-outsourcing' rhetoric strives to convince EVERYONE that his or her job is 'next' for outsourcing.
This is simply not true.
The rhetoric also stresses the idea that outsourcing equals "American Jobs Moving Overseas".
That's only half true. It's a two-way street. 'They' can (and will) outsource to us.
As 'they' create a better economy of their own, they will also want to buy more of our stuff, and visit our wonderful country and eat our food and so on.
Outsourcing also means more startups and small companies over here. There will be fewer Oracle's and Microsoft's with 1,000's of employees, but more small firms with tens of employees. There are a LOT of aspects of software/project development which don't export well. Those are the opportunities you can take advantage of, if you're not already creating your own.
If you really care about your country and people in general, you should be thinking at this macro level, and not harping on about your friend who lost his job and now can't find one that pays the same. I feel for him, but I don't want legislation enacted to create an artificial labor 'game preserve' for him to play in.
Sorry. Change is constant and change is painful. Roll with the punches. If you can't make it here, you can't make it anywhere.
I do all the things you just mentioned with our dialup (shared wirelessly, no less ; ) connection at home. If it takes me an extra 5 minutes more than it takes you, who cares? I don't.
Apart from NPR and PBS, what left-wing media has the US had?
Oh, I don't know . . . all of Hollywood maybe? The New York Times and practically every other major newspaper? Network News, maybe?
Tell ya what, give us Hollywood, and you can have talk radio!
No, congratulations to you again, my friend, because you're just like the rest of us. You enjoy seeing actual 'fucking citations' for the quotes you read, along with their context, in articles supporting your point of view.
.
Don't even pretend for a minute that the presence of 'citations' for a Daily Howler article makes that article even the slightest bit more 'truthful' (or less) than the info-tainment of a Hannity or an O'Rielly.
They have citations too, but because the citations support a pov you find apalling, you write them off as 'lies' or 'spin' or what-have-you, the same way Conservative Creeps like me write off the raving nutbags at the Daily Howler!
And still, life goes on . .
You've got to cancel your cable, period end of story. Thenthe healing can begin!
No, its funnier because it is a blatant cut-n-paste from an earlier post. The fact that some idiots responded to it seriously is funnier still!
Yeah but, well, I mean...B-b-b-BUSH IS THE DEVIL!!!
; )
Oh [i]kukka[/i].
I always hated science anyways.
; )
You don't build it and then get it up to spin, silly. You build it spinning, period, using tethers or whatever to maintain the discrete components in orbit around the sun from the git-go.
You know, even after weeding out the typical 'crackpot' angle's that fluff up the piece, there is the none-the-less compelling question as to why the rover veered (veered, not slipped) to squash the bunny-thing.
I mean really, why?
And why say "whoa, slippage!" to the press, when it doesn't look as though there was any slippage of any sort whatsoever?
And why is there no better image of the 'bunny' in any of the panoramic pics? Even if it was just junk from the lander, it would be interesting, but it didn't look to be the case as it seemed to be buried in the soil somewhat.
I mean, does it not look to most of you as though the lander intentionally backed over that specific object at least once if not twice? Does it not strike you as at least a little wacky that the 'slippage' should eradicate the bunny junk so completely?
Forget the Masons, Meninblack and UFO's. Just explain to me what's in the freekin' picture!
Please, please stop using the word 'incredibly' to describe things that, incredibly, are really quite credible after all.
The book is similar to Neverwhere? Good. Thanks for the info, but pardon me if my eyes don't exactly widen with amazement.
Mieville's writing style is similar to Gaiman's but different? Fine. It's nice to know, but exactly leave me choking on my sandwich.
Ahh...the scent of freshly picked nits!
Gotta love them Cold War Russians...putting WarHammer style spikes on their Venus lander.
I wonder if it had a spear for a flag-pole with an American skull on it?
Totally evil!
Hooray for Common Sense winning out over Leftist Hysteria.
Agreed, wholeheartedly. I've always liked his ideas, but found his execution painfully dated and labor-intesive.
Blade Runner as a science fiction movie, is superb.
...but you HAVE to make your way in this world. There's no getting out of it. You can join the military or a religious/cult commune, but otherwise you've got to pay your way.
You'll figure it out, and you'll do better than you think. You'll also find it's not so bad, and that you're not alone.
Good luck and...welcome to the real world!
; )
The coloring pattern is wholly dependent on how long you cook them on a given side.
You're absolutely right. The endless search for happiness without pain is a fruitless and endless loop, and is more than anything...the source of our unhappiness!
Oh well. Not much to be done on that front.
Very soon there will be nowhere to hide, as flying/airborne networks of 'bugs' with full audio-visual capability will be all over, indoors and out, in due time. There's no way to stop this and I'm not saying we should try, but it will make life 'interesting' in ways we can barely conceive of right now.
Mosquito nets, repellant and bugspray will take on new meanings in the not-too-distant future.
this is actually kind of funny!
...You answer our questions.
Toyota Echo
Cutely-goofy little car, but lot's of room and amazing mileage.
...This is a silly idea.
The Small-Minded Demons of Impotence...
Wow!