I remember buying Made in China stuff when I was a kid and being subsequently hugely disappointed in the results pretty much every time. Nowadays, things I buy from China on eBay very often exceed my expectations.
In the 60's "Made in Japan" was a certificate of junkiness. That turned around in the 70's, and by the 80's Japan was starting to eat Detroit. In the 90's we were so like "Turning Japanese I think I'm turning Japanese at least I think so".
It seems that a lot of people nowadays are ready for an emperor. 'Tis true that is how republics die. Reading through history I've always wondered if and when this "great experiment" that the US has been called would follow the path of other historical republics. I think we're well into oligarchy phase, and typically the next step is a civil war which enables all the power to be collected at the top, and people get tired of the war and follow someone, anyone, who can end it.
That will take a while, of course, so it's hard to say who will eventually "assume the purple" over a reunited(?) nation. What the nation and empire would look like then is a thing to be guessed at. And whoever it is, they will, of course, not call themselves an emperor, because the trappings of a republic will remain for a long time until the last of the old generations who remember what they had, pass away.
Thanks for the link. I've followed Red Letter's SW releases with great interest. I've held off on the last two because I haven't seen them yet. But perhaps I'm not missing anything. After all, 1.4 billion people *can't* be wrong, can they?
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I can almost guarantee this will win the popular vote.
And be defeated in the Electoral College.
Absolutely, and don't call me Shirley.
Nice. To show my appreciation I present you an ascii bike: o^-\o
(i didn't say it would be a *good* ascii bike)
"ru" is good language. Is best for hack computer or election.
"All ru comp are mine!"
I remember buying Made in China stuff when I was a kid and being subsequently hugely disappointed in the results pretty much every time. Nowadays, things I buy from China on eBay very often exceed my expectations.
In the 60's "Made in Japan" was a certificate of junkiness. That turned around in the 70's, and by the 80's Japan was starting to eat Detroit. In the 90's we were so like "Turning Japanese I think I'm turning Japanese at least I think so".
Ha! I know what's going to be in my youtube queue tonight.
Misotheist - belief god is a horrible incompetent, this universe can't be anyone's best work.
Pessotheist - the belief that you're probably right.
So, it's a Quantum Question. Yes/no/maybe. Abort/retry/fail?
A larger deficit is now considered a good thing. We have always been at war with Eastasia.
"yellow diamond warning signs which read "CHURCH""
You kiiiiiiilllllll me!
It seems that a lot of people nowadays are ready for an emperor. 'Tis true that is how republics die. Reading through history I've always wondered if and when this "great experiment" that the US has been called would follow the path of other historical republics. I think we're well into oligarchy phase, and typically the next step is a civil war which enables all the power to be collected at the top, and people get tired of the war and follow someone, anyone, who can end it.
That will take a while, of course, so it's hard to say who will eventually "assume the purple" over a reunited(?) nation. What the nation and empire would look like then is a thing to be guessed at. And whoever it is, they will, of course, not call themselves an emperor, because the trappings of a republic will remain for a long time until the last of the old generations who remember what they had, pass away.
Oblig.
In Soviet Russia, whoosh gets you!
You caught one! Kudos.
Why is PIS5 worse than PIS4?
Whoosh! Or rather, Splash!
Your comment is a good filter of who should be on /., and who should not.
Thanks for the link. I've followed Red Letter's SW releases with great interest. I've held off on the last two because I haven't seen them yet. But perhaps I'm not missing anything. After all, 1.4 billion people *can't* be wrong, can they?
I was wondering where all my deliveries went.
I was going to post a reply to TFS, but I forgot what it was about.
Thank you for sharing your feedback. May we include your Story in our Epic?
Journey to a sale?
Really?
Must be epic.
Little Bobby Tables, is that you?
At $49/m, I'll pass. Howzabout you cut&paste the numbers instead?
I dare you to tell Kal-El that to his face!
Climate change affects economics, which affects resources. Politics is how humans allocate resources.
And when the dev forgets to turn it off for that one little module, hilarity reigns when the feed gets random debug messages in it.