Don't let either a self-destructively cynical worldview or a fear of success/failure let you drop what you've done so far.
FINISH. No if's / and's / nand's / xor's or 'well...I don't know man...the world is going to shit anyways so I might as well just blah blah blah...'s about it. Tell yourself whatever lies it takes to finish up your degree. Just do it. Trust us on this one!
You never have to touch another computer again for the rest of your life if you don't want to, but a degree - in ANYTHING - shows that, to some substantial degree, you can get your work done and see a difficult job through to the end. THIS is what employers of all kinds really like, and will also give you the self-assurance you will need if you choose to go it on your own and start a business or something.
To deal with the issues worldwide that most raise the ire of many of the more rational-minded protesters, we need some sort of interface with which to exert an influence on things. Right now there is none. Globalism/WTO is that interface, however flawed.
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Institutions like the WTO will become the interfaces with which we can address exactly the kind of grievances you're illustrating. Right now the situations you describe are already happening, and there is no one place to address these problems.
Wrong-o, pal!. Warts and all, we're THE leading (if not the sole) exporter of freedom and liberty in thought and deed in the modern world. We're it. If you feel down-trodden now, wherever the heck you are, we're the only chance you have.
Nazis! Hmph. Indeed...
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Not only do people not want our way of life, they are not in a position to accept our way of life.
Strongly disagree. I wouldn't be a bit suprised if Bin Laden was a closet Britney Spears fan. These people have no hope, and see us, rightly or otherwise, as largely to blame. Blowing themselves up is a last ditch effort at generating a life with some sort of meaning and identity. We need to kill them with kindness, in the form of media, jobs and education. Don't worry about their culture, they'll take what they like and chuck the rest.
...that a republic must have a strong middle-class and third world countries do not have one...
Too true. So maybe instead of roping them off as some cultural museum piece, we should get them working, which will in turn get them curious about something beyond putting a bullet in the head of a member of some rival tribe.
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Noooo! I woOOOooOoOooOn't listen! Feel my pent up, middle-class trust-fund hippy wrath in AAAALLLLLLL CAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPS!
YAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHH! (bamf)
Er, sorry. I'll go now.
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If you're at least capable of watching the latest Disney travesty while munching on your favourite mass-produced soy beef surrogate while browsing porn on your laptop, then chances are pretty good that
A. You're not starving
B. You're not being shot at
To a college age budding intellectual, it must surely seem that starving and being shot at is hugely preferrable to a Microsloth McWorld. Thing is, you're already there in your McDorm fomenting acts of McDissent curtesy of the hard-earned McDollars of your McParents. Those who really are starving and/or being shot at might relish the idea of a chance at that which you are so eager to dismiss.
When Palestinians and Israeli's can argue religious ethics over french fries in a middle eastern community college before the start of their Film Survey class in which they will deconstruct the socio-political undercurrents of Dumbo, then we can ask them if they'd like to give it all up to become rock-throwing McAnarchists.
I think that one of the issues of globalization is that corporations, having no ethics, are quite happy to run along and move their organization to anywhere that they can get the best return on investment.
If this means taking advantage of a cheap workforce, no labor laws, no benefits, then so be it.
Globalization actually makes it possible to enact labor laws, benefits and so on, on a world-wide basis. If all you can see is a Nike shoe factory moving to a 3rd world country, depriving us poor Americans of good paying jobs while exploiting the locals, well, I'm sorry to tell you but they're doing that already. Globalization will provide an interface with which to address those concerns. Right now there is nothing.
And I'm still not clear on the anti-global trade folks' position, is it the seeming loss of American jobs you decry, or the seeming abuse of foreign work-forces? If corporations spreading world-wide brings about the sort of disasters you protest-addicts seem to envision, who will buy their products? How will they survive? Who will profit, and then what?
It's not about 'giving up' on Israel. No one in their right mind is calling for that. It's about Israel maturing and being encouraged if not eventually forced to deal with the Palestinian crisis in a constructive manner rather than endless cycles provocation, attack and retaliation.
Has anyone tried this? I would but my current soundcard does not work under Linux. I run CoolEdit Pro on Windows and have found it to be the ultimate home studio. It's simple to use and loaded with effects. I use it exactly the way I used my old four track and have never had a problem with latency.
Wish they'd port it straight to Linux or BeOS, although then we wouldn't get the plugins (yet). It sounds like running on WINE might keep the plugins intact...
...for various types of subscriber fraud. This flag will probably be used less and less over time as more and more otherwise qualified consumers abandon land lines.
The quatrains of Nostradamus are a backwards-looking Rorschach test for the magical-thinking paranoid child in all of us. I say backwards-looking because the 'meanings' of his quatrains can only be 'divined' after some event has been found that seems, to one degree or another, to 'fit' a given quatrain (usually after quite a bit of linguistic hammering, duct-tape and misdirection).
While his people starve at the hands of the 'dreadful sanctions from the West', Saddam has managed to do much to rebuild his army and infrastructure, all the while very successfully (as witnessed in the parent post and all the drooling support it has garnered) using the sanctions as a perfect excuse to starve his own people into a frenzy of racial hatred and win the support of bleeding-hearts in America itself.
He has barely scratched the surface of what he could gain for his people with the Oil for Food program as it would eliminate the unofficial but worldwide support he gets as a 'poor victim' who only needs to pose occasionally for the camera with his hands in the air saying "My poor people. What can I do against these terrible impositions from the West?"
Wake up for Chrissakes, and stop playing into their hands like a bunch of puppets.
In your version, with the "ah-choo" sneeze reference, the rhyme make good sense as a silly bit of play in which all are overcome by their own sneezing/allergies to the rosies and posies to the point at which they fall down (giggling of course, only to get up and do it again).
I could honestly see it either way. I must admit that when I read the Bubonic Plague reference, it rang as highly plausible as a sort of darkly humorous play that might have evolved in the aftermath of the plague.
The 'debunkings' I've read at Snopes and elsewhere aren't tremendously convincing to me despite the extremely self-confident tone in which they are written. In the end, though, I'd go with the allergy/sneezing/fall down idea.
I think that if the 'skin' of the Hindenburg wasn't so flammable, you'd have had a fairly manageable jet of burning hydrogen, instead of the sudden explosion.
Even still, quite a few passenger (most, I believe) survived that ordeal. It looked a lot worse than it was.
The Hindenburg accident, with all it's 'nasty explosive hydrogen', resulted in a lot more survivors than any modern jet-powered aircraft, which basically ignite into gigantic fireballs immediately upon any sort of impact.
A hydrogen fueled aircraft accident would at least allow the structure of the aircraft to give its passengers a chance or two in hell of surviving the impact, rather than going up in flames every time no matter what.
The 'reply' to ESR's reply was nothing more that a warbling last-ditch attempt at saving face. Relax, get involved and see what it's really like or don't. In the meantime, making a name for yourself by nipping at the heels of those who have worked harder and longer than you is not the way to go, IMHO.
Look at it this way, for the price of 1 CD a month (after initial purchace), you get talk, news and music radio that never fades or drifts. That alone is pretty kewl.
Kids. Listen up & Grow up. It's about Oil and Opium
Give us a break there, daddy-o. Don't you have a hemp-rally to go to or something?
The 43 million was a mixed bag of humanitarian aid for the Afghan people suffering from a 3 year drought. We did not reward the Taliban with 43 million dollars for burning poppy fields. This aid bypassed the Taliban entirely.
Seeing how effortlessly your self-righteous conspiratorial fragile egg-shell mind wrapped itself around this little nugget of pop counter-cultural 'wisdom', I can only imagine the degree of veracity your other claims hold.
But I've been Duped by the Conspiracy, so what the hell do I know???
Not because I really know, of course, but because the possibilities of it being anything else are miniscule. The reason these people haven't 'gone under' with the other dot-coms is because they're not a dot-com!
It's a web-site maintained by a couple of kooks. Kook-maintained web-sites don't require a tone of overhead last I checked.
I think feathers have something to do with increasing birds efficiency in this respect. On the upstroke, the feathers spread and align in such a way that the wind passes through and between them. On the downstroke, they overlap together and 'balloon' to capture the air.
There's also the rigid leading edge that drags the feather up at an angle that cuts through the air on the upstroke, but which also supports the 'ballooning' on the down stroke. The aircraft seems to capture this aspect, but not that of the feathers, which would require a LOT of engineering!
No one tries to expose stage-magicians as 'fraudulent' because, by the very nature of their profession, it's understood to be an illusion and appreciated to the degree that what we nonetheless know to be illusion appears to be real. The result of watching a good magician is delight and amazement for exactly that reason. If we thought it was real, we'd respond with fear or paranoia. As for the moon landings, the 'exposes' I've read are pretty ridiculous, but that's neither here nor there, as your post was clearly (to me) meant in jest.
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Don't let either a self-destructively cynical worldview or a fear of success/failure let you drop what you've done so far.
FINISH. No if's / and's / nand's / xor's or 'well...I don't know man...the world is going to shit anyways so I might as well just blah blah blah...'s about it. Tell yourself whatever lies it takes to finish up your degree. Just do it. Trust us on this one!
You never have to touch another computer again for the rest of your life if you don't want to, but a degree - in ANYTHING - shows that, to some substantial degree, you can get your work done and see a difficult job through to the end. THIS is what employers of all kinds really like, and will also give you the self-assurance you will need if you choose to go it on your own and start a business or something.
Bottom line:
Shut the fsck up and do your damn homework.
; )
It's true. We can't afford let American labor unions decide labor policy for the rest of the world.
To deal with the issues worldwide that most raise the ire of many of the more rational-minded protesters, we need some sort of interface with which to exert an influence on things. Right now there is none. Globalism/WTO is that interface, however flawed.
Institutions like the WTO will become the interfaces with which we can address exactly the kind of grievances you're illustrating. Right now the situations you describe are already happening, and there is no one place to address these problems.
Wrong-o, pal!. Warts and all, we're THE leading (if not the sole) exporter of freedom and liberty in thought and deed in the modern world. We're it. If you feel down-trodden now, wherever the heck you are, we're the only chance you have.
Nazis! Hmph. Indeed...
Not only do people not want our way of life, they are not in a position to accept our way of life.
...that a republic must have a strong middle-class and third world countries do not have one...
Strongly disagree. I wouldn't be a bit suprised if Bin Laden was a closet Britney Spears fan. These people have no hope, and see us, rightly or otherwise, as largely to blame. Blowing themselves up is a last ditch effort at generating a life with some sort of meaning and identity. We need to kill them with kindness, in the form of media, jobs and education. Don't worry about their culture, they'll take what they like and chuck the rest.
Too true. So maybe instead of roping them off as some cultural museum piece, we should get them working, which will in turn get them curious about something beyond putting a bullet in the head of a member of some rival tribe.
Noooo! I woOOOooOoOooOn't listen! Feel my pent up, middle-class trust-fund hippy wrath in AAAALLLLLLL CAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPS!
YAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHH! (bamf)
Er, sorry. I'll go now.
If you're at least capable of watching the latest Disney travesty while munching on your favourite mass-produced soy beef surrogate while browsing porn on your laptop, then chances are pretty good that
A. You're not starving
B. You're not being shot at
To a college age budding intellectual, it must surely seem that starving and being shot at is hugely preferrable to a Microsloth McWorld. Thing is, you're already there in your McDorm fomenting acts of McDissent curtesy of the hard-earned McDollars of your McParents. Those who really are starving and/or being shot at might relish the idea of a chance at that which you are so eager to dismiss.
When Palestinians and Israeli's can argue religious ethics over french fries in a middle eastern community college before the start of their Film Survey class in which they will deconstruct the socio-political undercurrents of Dumbo, then we can ask them if they'd like to give it all up to become rock-throwing McAnarchists.
I think that one of the issues of globalization is that corporations, having no ethics, are quite happy to run along and move their organization to anywhere that they can get the best return on investment.
If this means taking advantage of a cheap workforce, no labor laws, no benefits, then so be it.
Globalization actually makes it possible to enact labor laws, benefits and so on, on a world-wide basis. If all you can see is a Nike shoe factory moving to a 3rd world country, depriving us poor Americans of good paying jobs while exploiting the locals, well, I'm sorry to tell you but they're doing that already. Globalization will provide an interface with which to address those concerns. Right now there is nothing.
And I'm still not clear on the anti-global trade folks' position, is it the seeming loss of American jobs you decry, or the seeming abuse of foreign work-forces? If corporations spreading world-wide brings about the sort of disasters you protest-addicts seem to envision, who will buy their products? How will they survive? Who will profit, and then what?
It's not about 'giving up' on Israel. No one in their right mind is calling for that. It's about Israel maturing and being encouraged if not eventually forced to deal with the Palestinian crisis in a constructive manner rather than endless cycles provocation, attack and retaliation.
This is one of those dumbass jokes that actually succeeded in making me laugh.
Thanks!
Has anyone tried this? I would but my current soundcard does not work under Linux. I run CoolEdit Pro on Windows and have found it to be the ultimate home studio. It's simple to use and loaded with effects. I use it exactly the way I used my old four track and have never had a problem with latency.
Wish they'd port it straight to Linux or BeOS, although then we wouldn't get the plugins (yet). It sounds like running on WINE might keep the plugins intact...
...for various types of subscriber fraud. This flag will probably be used less and less over time as more and more otherwise qualified consumers abandon land lines.
The quatrains of Nostradamus are a backwards-looking Rorschach test for the magical-thinking paranoid child in all of us. I say backwards-looking because the 'meanings' of his quatrains can only be 'divined' after some event has been found that seems, to one degree or another, to 'fit' a given quatrain (usually after quite a bit of linguistic hammering, duct-tape and misdirection).
While his people starve at the hands of the 'dreadful sanctions from the West', Saddam has managed to do much to rebuild his army and infrastructure, all the while very successfully (as witnessed in the parent post and all the drooling support it has garnered) using the sanctions as a perfect excuse to starve his own people into a frenzy of racial hatred and win the support of bleeding-hearts in America itself.
He has barely scratched the surface of what he could gain for his people with the Oil for Food program as it would eliminate the unofficial but worldwide support he gets as a 'poor victim' who only needs to pose occasionally for the camera with his hands in the air saying "My poor people. What can I do against these terrible impositions from the West?"
Wake up for Chrissakes, and stop playing into their hands like a bunch of puppets.
In your version, with the "ah-choo" sneeze reference, the rhyme make good sense as a silly bit of play in which all are overcome by their own sneezing/allergies to the rosies and posies to the point at which they fall down (giggling of course, only to get up and do it again).
I could honestly see it either way. I must admit that when I read the Bubonic Plague reference, it rang as highly plausible as a sort of darkly humorous play that might have evolved in the aftermath of the plague.
The 'debunkings' I've read at Snopes and elsewhere aren't tremendously convincing to me despite the extremely self-confident tone in which they are written. In the end, though, I'd go with the allergy/sneezing/fall down idea.
I think that if the 'skin' of the Hindenburg wasn't so flammable, you'd have had a fairly manageable jet of burning hydrogen, instead of the sudden explosion.
Even still, quite a few passenger (most, I believe) survived that ordeal. It looked a lot worse than it was.
The Hindenburg accident, with all it's 'nasty explosive hydrogen', resulted in a lot more survivors than any modern jet-powered aircraft, which basically ignite into gigantic fireballs immediately upon any sort of impact.
A hydrogen fueled aircraft accident would at least allow the structure of the aircraft to give its passengers a chance or two in hell of surviving the impact, rather than going up in flames every time no matter what.
His point still stands. Fringe science. Kooks. End of story.
Next!
; )
The 'reply' to ESR's reply was nothing more that a warbling last-ditch attempt at saving face. Relax, get involved and see what it's really like or don't. In the meantime, making a name for yourself by nipping at the heels of those who have worked harder and longer than you is not the way to go, IMHO.
Look at it this way, for the price of 1 CD a month (after initial purchace), you get talk, news and music radio that never fades or drifts. That alone is pretty kewl.
Kids. Listen up & Grow up. It's about Oil and Opium
Give us a break there, daddy-o. Don't you have a hemp-rally to go to or something?
The 43 million was a mixed bag of humanitarian aid for the Afghan people suffering from a 3 year drought. We did not reward the Taliban with 43 million dollars for burning poppy fields. This aid bypassed the Taliban entirely.
Seeing how effortlessly your self-righteous conspiratorial fragile egg-shell mind wrapped itself around this little nugget of pop counter-cultural 'wisdom', I can only imagine the degree of veracity your other claims hold.
But I've been Duped by the Conspiracy, so what the hell do I know???
; )
43 Million Dollars?
Not because I really know, of course, but because the possibilities of it being anything else are miniscule. The reason these people haven't 'gone under' with the other dot-coms is because they're not a dot-com!
It's a web-site maintained by a couple of kooks. Kook-maintained web-sites don't require a tone of overhead last I checked.
I think feathers have something to do with increasing birds efficiency in this respect. On the upstroke, the feathers spread and align in such a way that the wind passes through and between them. On the downstroke, they overlap together and 'balloon' to capture the air.
There's also the rigid leading edge that drags the feather up at an angle that cuts through the air on the upstroke, but which also supports the 'ballooning' on the down stroke. The aircraft seems to capture this aspect, but not that of the feathers, which would require a LOT of engineering!
No one tries to expose stage-magicians as 'fraudulent' because, by the very nature of their profession, it's understood to be an illusion and appreciated to the degree that what we nonetheless know to be illusion appears to be real. The result of watching a good magician is delight and amazement for exactly that reason. If we thought it was real, we'd respond with fear or paranoia. As for the moon landings, the 'exposes' I've read are pretty ridiculous, but that's neither here nor there, as your post was clearly (to me) meant in jest.