There's nothing wrong with China. The Chinese, on the other hand... Ca. four billion people who treat each other like shit, all of who treat everyone who's not Chinese like shit. Bravo. What a stupid culture, Yeah, great, your civilizatiion's four thousand years old. Big deal. What've you done with that other than bury pottery armies and oppress your own people (and other people)?
... there is no way that the thing was ever designed for such tracking rates
If you're playing with something like space, you need to design in the exponential. Eleven klicks per sec. is pretty slow compared to a lot of stuff that's flying around out there.
Passing within a few kilometers of an asteroid only 2 to 3 km in diameter at a speed of 10,730 meters per second could be described as either superb shooting or a near disaster.
I'm not often a "Yay, China!" kind of guy, but I do admit that's pretty cool; ballsy even. I'm happy for the engineers who stuck their necks out to try it. Pretty neat!
I'd really like to know why there's so much !@#$ like this going on. Spammers pollute the net with crap, and we can't find them to make them stop. Assholes build botnets to do that and worse, and we can't find them to make them stop. Robocallers annoy millions of people daily wasting their cell minutes, and...
This's the 21st Century. Why is any of this still happening? Why can't/don't the telcos police their damned networks?
FUCK YEAH! US #1-o motherfucker, fuck yeah fuck yeah fuck yeah fuck yeah fuck yeah! Were the most edjucated tops beat that you socialisst Europusies! Lol
Posted from my iPhone fuck yeah!
If there was ever a "You deserve to get your money back." moment, this is it.
Now if we could only get more of our smart kids into college despite the (lower than foreign but still) high tuition costs.
What?!? Your state Uni/Colleges may be within the means of mortals, but your private ones can charge enough to get you in debt for life; the price of a moderate house. Who do you think offers more expensive higher edu than the US? Most of them elsewhere that I've heard of heavily subsidize tuition for those who can make the grade.
Then 2008 hit... none of which was under our power. Now why is that?!?
And I did go back to school and earned my degree,...
Sucker. I avoided that academia crap and ended up in the same place, but far less in debt. What's that tell you? University/College doesn't beat self-taught learning, yet the result may be the same.
I'd like to be able to offer advice to kids who may follow in our footsteps better than "Don't do it! You're a fool for trying!", but that seems to be all I'm left with.
I did 1.25 a. with ExxonMobil doing brilliant work fixing stuff their staff were afraid to touch for fear of breaking it, and they couldn't wait to ship my job off to two guys in Brazil.
I assume when they went back home that this new perspective would cause them to evaluate their own local press and government statements about the U.S.
Obama is playing longball. By doing it Obama's way it's a two-fer because we would drain the smartest and most motivated from our competitors and then use them in *our* workforce.
Think of it in evolution terms as injecting new competitive genes into the genepool.
The American right wing doesn't understand the long game. It's all profits across the next 2 years or cut all funding to anything and everything to ensure those profits over the next two.
Ya know, those two statements are The World in a nutshell today.
I'm a Canuckian. I think it's silly that you people are even questioning the very idea of immigration reform. Of course you should be wanting to keep smart people who come to you, and why not?!? Because they'll take your jobs? What, can't compete against furriners who only barely speak Anglo?
Most people in today's universities and colleges barely get any real advancement as people due to the mass education of shoving as many people through it as possible.
It makes for a great cheap babysitting service for the proles.
I will guess all politicians value your ignorance, else why would anyone vote for them? Surely Al Gore values it equally as much as GWB did. Now it's Obama's turn to dine on it. About the only exceptions I can think of are the Pauls.
I take it you prefer to have your population dominated by uneducated burger flippers instead of college graduates?
The US isn't such a mess because we are uneducated, we do not value ignorance...
At least two of your states are trying to find a way to do away with teaching evolution. Compare your college STEM budget with its football team's budget. Who do the girls go for first? The football team. Who do bullies go for first? The smart kid who shows 'em up in class. On balance, yes you are uneducated, and you do value ignorance.
You speak down to burger flippers like they are uneducated...
I was specifically talking about uneducated burger flippers. I've suffered many a "gap job" myself through the years, hating damned near every minute of it but having to do it to pay the rent.
I'm well aware of the travesty of H1-B visas you suffer through. Not a bad idea, but apallingly implemented and getting worse all the time.
Or make it attractive (and possible) for them to stay in the USA.
Concerned US citizen here with a question for you: why would we want to do that?
I take it you prefer to have your population dominated by uneducated burger flippers instead of college graduates? That's why the US is such a mess these days. You value ignorance. You look down on people who know and think about things. Hell, you throw 'em in jail.
You see your average Joe has all these devices that can connect to the Internet, multiple PCs, tablet, phone, Internet enabled TV, but they don't have a damned clue on how to make ANY of that shit play nice with one another or to set it up so they can use them on the net as they were designed.
So Microsoft, instead of handing the user a rag and a bottle of Windex (or water diluted vinegar which works just as well) to clean their dirty [Ww]indows so they can see out, instead handed them a hammer so they can break the glass.
Amazing. UPnP has been a disastrous idea from day one. It surprises me every time I hear of someone who's ignorant of this.
Barclays paid a 290 million pound ($464 million) fine in June to settle with regulators, and three top executives, including CEO Robert Diamond, departed.
Well, damn. That's just sad. I really like that quote. It makes me think of how the Arabs used to be, building libraries and universities, saving all the ancient knowledge they'd accumulated over centuries while my ancestors were freezing in dirt floored huts, declaring science and philosophy a threat to their religion.
For this comparatively small sum, Canada gets a hardworking, apolitical individual, backed by serious constitutional legal minds for those infrequent times when use of real power is called for (i.e. on the advice of the prime minister, deciding whether to prorogue parliament or call an election.)
I just have to add (for the comic humour value) the CBC's paraphrasing of one of our recent GGs: "I'm Adrienne Clarkson, and you're not."
Arrogant, self absorbed witch. May she rot in hell alongside P. E. Trudeau (and David Suzuki) forever, soon. Those three deserve each other's company.
... but just like everyone wants to be like the rich, successful douchebag who bangs all the hot chicks, everyone wants to be like the US -- even if we are douchebags.
Nope, you're wrong. There's lots that can be said for the US, but I couldn't stand sharing that country with most of you. You treat each other like !@#$ and your idiots are armed. There's lots of places on this planet where I'd rather be. The US is close to the bottom of my list.
... it's what happens when you make it illegal to not vote...
I've never understood that. I'd take that as licence to vote against incumbents at every opportunity. It seems odd that politicians would try to encourage that way of thinking.
On the other hand, that's what I do anyway, so maybe it's just me.
Whether or not we kick Israel to the curb, no Muslim nation is really in our Alliance for a coon's age.
What a short memory you have. GHWB invaded Kuwait to kick out the Iraqis/Sadaam Hussein. His son then spent a decade or thereabouts bankrupting you to finish the job. You've been pouring cash down the Saudi money hole seemingly forever. Indonesia warmly welcomes anything the USA wants to do to them. Afghanistan's Karzai is your puppet. Pakistan may hate your guts, but loves to service your every need anyway. Iran pre-Khomeini was a US puppet every bit as much as Iraq was.
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FTFY!!!111 It's a fucking machine! $deity, I hate this PC garbage! THINK!
What's wrong with China?
There's nothing wrong with China. The Chinese, on the other hand ... Ca. four billion people who treat each other like shit, all of who treat everyone who's not Chinese like shit. Bravo. What a stupid culture, Yeah, great, your civilizatiion's four thousand years old. Big deal. What've you done with that other than bury pottery armies and oppress your own people (and other people)?
... there is no way that the thing was ever designed for such tracking rates
If you're playing with something like space, you need to design in the exponential. Eleven klicks per sec. is pretty slow compared to a lot of stuff that's flying around out there.
FB doesn't matter ("stuff that matters", and all that, ya know). Just sayin'. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!111
Passing within a few kilometers of an asteroid only 2 to 3 km in diameter at a speed of 10,730 meters per second could be described as either superb shooting or a near disaster.
I'm not often a "Yay, China!" kind of guy, but I do admit that's pretty cool; ballsy even. I'm happy for the engineers who stuck their necks out to try it. Pretty neat!
I'd really like to know why there's so much !@#$ like this going on. Spammers pollute the net with crap, and we can't find them to make them stop. Assholes build botnets to do that and worse, and we can't find them to make them stop. Robocallers annoy millions of people daily wasting their cell minutes, and ...
This's the 21st Century. Why is any of this still happening? Why can't/don't the telcos police their damned networks?
FUCK YEAH! US #1-o motherfucker, fuck yeah fuck yeah fuck yeah fuck yeah fuck yeah! Were the most edjucated tops beat that you socialisst Europusies! Lol
Posted from my iPhone fuck yeah!
If there was ever a "You deserve to get your money back." moment, this is it.
Now if we could only get more of our smart kids into college despite the (lower than foreign but still) high tuition costs.
What?!? Your state Uni/Colleges may be within the means of mortals, but your private ones can charge enough to get you in debt for life; the price of a moderate house. Who do you think offers more expensive higher edu than the US? Most of them elsewhere that I've heard of heavily subsidize tuition for those who can make the grade.
wow - and I'm fresh outta mod points.
Um, thanks.
Then the IPO fraud of the early 2000's hit ...
Then 2008 hit ... none of which was under our power. Now why is that?!?
And I did go back to school and earned my degree, ...
Sucker. I avoided that academia crap and ended up in the same place, but far less in debt. What's that tell you? University/College doesn't beat self-taught learning, yet the result may be the same.
I'd like to be able to offer advice to kids who may follow in our footsteps better than "Don't do it! You're a fool for trying!", but that seems to be all I'm left with.
I did 1.25 a. with ExxonMobil doing brilliant work fixing stuff their staff were afraid to touch for fear of breaking it, and they couldn't wait to ship my job off to two guys in Brazil.
Meh.
I assume when they went back home that this new perspective would cause them to evaluate their own local press and government statements about the U.S.
Yamamoto studied at Harvard. Unfortunately, he had no power to stop what was coming.
Obama is playing longball. By doing it Obama's way it's a two-fer because we would drain the smartest and most motivated from our competitors and then use them in *our* workforce.
Think of it in evolution terms as injecting new competitive genes into the genepool.
The American right wing doesn't understand the long game. It's all profits across the next 2 years or cut all funding to anything and everything to ensure those profits over the next two.
Ya know, those two statements are The World in a nutshell today.
I'm a Canuckian. I think it's silly that you people are even questioning the very idea of immigration reform. Of course you should be wanting to keep smart people who come to you, and why not?!? Because they'll take your jobs? What, can't compete against furriners who only barely speak Anglo?
Most people in today's universities and colleges barely get any real advancement as people due to the mass education of shoving as many people through it as possible.
It makes for a great cheap babysitting service for the proles.
Only Republicans value ignorance.
I will guess all politicians value your ignorance, else why would anyone vote for them? Surely Al Gore values it equally as much as GWB did. Now it's Obama's turn to dine on it. About the only exceptions I can think of are the Pauls.
I take it you prefer to have your population dominated by uneducated burger flippers instead of college graduates?
The US isn't such a mess because we are uneducated, we do not value ignorance ...
At least two of your states are trying to find a way to do away with teaching evolution. Compare your college STEM budget with its football team's budget. Who do the girls go for first? The football team. Who do bullies go for first? The smart kid who shows 'em up in class. On balance, yes you are uneducated, and you do value ignorance.
You speak down to burger flippers like they are uneducated ...
I was specifically talking about uneducated burger flippers. I've suffered many a "gap job" myself through the years, hating damned near every minute of it but having to do it to pay the rent.
I'm well aware of the travesty of H1-B visas you suffer through. Not a bad idea, but apallingly implemented and getting worse all the time.
Why the !@#$ is that modded -1?!?
Or make it attractive (and possible) for them to stay in the USA.
Concerned US citizen here with a question for you: why would we want to do that?
I take it you prefer to have your population dominated by uneducated burger flippers instead of college graduates? That's why the US is such a mess these days. You value ignorance. You look down on people who know and think about things. Hell, you throw 'em in jail.
You see your average Joe has all these devices that can connect to the Internet, multiple PCs, tablet, phone, Internet enabled TV, but they don't have a damned clue on how to make ANY of that shit play nice with one another or to set it up so they can use them on the net as they were designed.
So Microsoft, instead of handing the user a rag and a bottle of Windex (or water diluted vinegar which works just as well) to clean their dirty [Ww]indows so they can see out, instead handed them a hammer so they can break the glass.
Amazing. UPnP has been a disastrous idea from day one. It surprises me every time I hear of someone who's ignorant of this.
Barclays paid a 290 million pound ($464 million) fine in June to settle with regulators, and three top executives, including CEO Robert Diamond, departed.
Charges are pending? Just askin'.
Altruistic pursuits aside, personal profit is the only real driving motive for 99.9% of all humans everywhere, to deny that is to deny human nature.
I think you've only a very shallow understanding of "altruistic" and "personal profit." You may also be a jerk, but I digress.
Regarding your sig:
http://wikiislam.net/wiki/List_of_Fabricated_Hadith#The_ink_of_the_scholar_is_more_holy_than_the_blood_of_the_Martyr
Well, damn. That's just sad. I really like that quote. It makes me think of how the Arabs used to be, building libraries and universities, saving all the ancient knowledge they'd accumulated over centuries while my ancestors were freezing in dirt floored huts, declaring science and philosophy a threat to their religion.
For this comparatively small sum, Canada gets a hardworking, apolitical individual, backed by serious constitutional legal minds for those infrequent times when use of real power is called for (i.e. on the advice of the prime minister, deciding whether to prorogue parliament or call an election.)
I just have to add (for the comic humour value) the CBC's paraphrasing of one of our recent GGs: "I'm Adrienne Clarkson, and you're not."
Arrogant, self absorbed witch. May she rot in hell alongside P. E. Trudeau (and David Suzuki) forever, soon. Those three deserve each other's company.
What a silly country this is.
... but just like everyone wants to be like the rich, successful douchebag who bangs all the hot chicks, everyone wants to be like the US -- even if we are douchebags.
Nope, you're wrong. There's lots that can be said for the US, but I couldn't stand sharing that country with most of you. You treat each other like !@#$ and your idiots are armed. There's lots of places on this planet where I'd rather be. The US is close to the bottom of my list.
... it's what happens when you make it illegal to not vote ...
I've never understood that. I'd take that as licence to vote against incumbents at every opportunity. It seems odd that politicians would try to encourage that way of thinking.
On the other hand, that's what I do anyway, so maybe it's just me.
Whether or not we kick Israel to the curb, no Muslim nation is really in our Alliance for a coon's age.
What a short memory you have. GHWB invaded Kuwait to kick out the Iraqis/Sadaam Hussein. His son then spent a decade or thereabouts bankrupting you to finish the job. You've been pouring cash down the Saudi money hole seemingly forever. Indonesia warmly welcomes anything the USA wants to do to them. Afghanistan's Karzai is your puppet. Pakistan may hate your guts, but loves to service your every need anyway. Iran pre-Khomeini was a US puppet every bit as much as Iraq was.
Just wow.
So the US government is going to have a royal fit over people getting around copyright law by setting up shop in another sovereign country....
Yes. Dependant upon who you are.
Just how long has the US government tolerated people getting around paying US Taxes by setting up shop in another sovereign country?
Forever, dependant upon who you are. If you're Google or Apple, the IRS doesn't appear to care that all your income goes through (eg.) Ireland.
You and me, on the other hand? We're one step out of jail for any unreported taxable penny.
I don't make the rules. I just stand around looking stunned trying to understand them.