Who said that? I'm curious. Someone whose worldview would be advanced by the idea that the Allies cheated and beat the Nazis without playing fair? Lemme guess, the same folk who would say that the Japanese were the good guys and the Americans came after them because DATS WACIST? Guess what, it was your buddies the Communists who beat the Nazis, the Allies simply prevented them from overrunning all of Europe.
Ah, it's lovely to hear such a wonderful tale right before bed. Attorneys have dug their own graves. Don't believe me? Just ask anyone who has had to deal with an attorney in the last ten years. And they all were displaced by H1Bs happily ever after. Don't you love a happy ending to a story?
All points of view are equally valid. Some are more diverse than others. Who are you to pick and choose which are right and wrong? Sounds like you're a cultural imperialist. What's your problem with diversity of opinion? Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
Ah, yes, the good old "social Darwinism" argument. Let me guess: you aren't an educated person. If you were, you would certainly know that there was a famous 20th century person who advocated your philosophy and he was quite vocal about it. It didn't quite work out the way he intended and it all ended in tears and the complete discrediting of your philosophy. For $1000 and the daily double, please question the answer.
What we really need is a government brave enough and strong enough to tell the people NO, you cannot have that Big Mac, you cannot have that 44oz soda. The adults are stepping in and taking away your toys. Unfortunately, too many idiots think that FREEDUMB[tm] is most important, and they're willing to shorten their lives to have it. It's so wrong on so many levels.:( If only there were a political party strong enough to do this...I weep.
How is this jingoism moderated up to +5? Explain how people have the right to a job just because of a coincidence of birth? I'm having a hard time understanding this concept, it seems bizarre in our borderless world.
Diversity is just a code word for anti-white. It doesn't actually mean diverse. 100% Asian, no problem. 100% black, no problem. 60% white BIG PROBLEM. Homogenity increasing is only a problem when whites are doing it.
The Ferengi were the leftist writers' ridiculous caricature of capitalism. They didn't even bother to come up with a culture for them, all they knew is that capitalism was BAD, and they needed to display their political biases on the show. The writers were prudes as well, like most leftists, TNG hardly ever touched on sexuality. If it was me I'd be on the holodeck covered in girls but the only ones who ever said anything about females were those icky Ferengi. Those barbarian, sexist bastards with the big ears who only want to capture and enslave human women...mmmm....forbidden fantasy....
Nobody can help you unless you tell us what the terms are. Seriously, trademark issues are famously inexact, and being vague doesn't help one bit. It could be either way, honestly.
Should have registered the trademark yourself, that way there would never have been a problem, and if there was already a registrant, change the name of the damn software. I swear for some reason open source developers choose the dumbest names for products.
Seeing as poverty is defined relatively, it simply doesn't matter how much anyone has. If there are people who are starship captains, there are only so many starships in the Federation. Everyone can't be a captain. The definition of poverty first requires a determination of what constitutes basic needs. The 21st century definition of âoefood and shelter necessary for survivalâ will be as obsolete as the 19th century buggy whip. The 25th century definition will be âoethose lacking the prevailing community standard." You can live 24/7 in the holodeck powered by a Mr. Fusion free energy generator, and the social justice warriors will still be bitching and moaning because the self-actualization apex of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs cannot be achieved by most people in society.
"Where cultural progress is genuinely successful and ills are cured, this progress is seldom received with enthusiasm. Instead, they are taken for granted and attention focuses on those ills that remain."
-- Odo Marquard, Philosopher
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Wholly owned foreign enterprises (WOFE) have been available in China since China joined the WTO way back when. These limited corporations are fully owned by the foreign investor. There is another structure called a Joint Venture (JV) that does require a 51% share by the Chinese side, but these are typically used in restricted industries like publishing or mining where WOFEs are not allowed. They are stupid and I don't know why any foreign company ever does them.
Americans are fleeing to Latin America? Really? This is the first I've heard of it. The same Latin America that is so dysfunctional that its people are fleeing in droves to barrios in our inner cities? Think about it...our prisons offer a better quality of life than their entire countries. Sad, isn't it?
Residents of the United States of America are called Americans and have been for hundreds of years. I'm not really sure where the confusion comes from here, just ask any non-Americans and they'll tell you.
You just drop that out there without mentioning that Monica Lewinsky's ex-boyfriend's wife is going to be the Democratic presidential candidate in 2016? As soon as she crushes Bernie Sanders, of course. You just throw that out with no context? WTF?
The defenders of the Alamo didn't lose. They made victory possible by their stubbornness and refusal to give up, even in the face of overwhelming odds. What you're talking about is certain defeat, more like the defenders of the Maginot Line. It's not your fault, schools don't teach inconvenient truths any more.:,( The whole Alamo narrative is hopelessly not leftist and therefore cannot allowed to contaminate the young.:(
The real issue doesn't have anything to do with roads. The real issue is that a government official has openly admitted that it probably doesn't make sense that his bureau should get more money. If you've ever worked in government you know what an earth-shaking admission that is. It's like Steve Jobs saying his products don't really need rounded corners.
The problem is if you DON'T catalog your entire life online, have facebook/twitter/linkedin/ad nauseum, they don't trust you. They need to see your entire life to feel comfortable. If you're one of those "I don't do facebook" people, you've not only identified yourself as not one of their tribe, but your lack of researchable information makes you immediately suspicious. I recently lost what I thought would have been a good business deal because of this.
Wow, checking if something works outside of California. What an idea! I hope someone got promoted for that. Well, at least they didn't go too far, just Austin. Still, it's flyover territory for sure, better be careful and get all your shots before you go and check the State Department website for possible local travel warnings.
It's not "Chinese exceptionalism" (whatever that means), it's just that since 1989 the Chinese economy HAS been on a constant upward trend. Your girlfriend was basing her mentality on observed reality. She DID understand how financial markets work...in China. Sort of sad you couldn't get out of your own mind, extrapolate, and figure it out. Criticizing her for being trapped while doing the same yourself has a name in English, I forget what it is. Seriously, except for a dip in 2008, it has been up, up, up for as long as anyone can remember, certainly a post-90s girl like your ex. Everybody DID get wildly rich.
Let's note that this was all imaginary money that disappeared. This has been a while in coming, because every Chinese person knows that every company out there has two sets of books, the real books and the buffed-up books for the government. All the way from the corner store to the largest corporations. Hell, I did it with my own company, and my legitimate registered accountant was happy to help. And why not? It's what she did with all her other customers.
A bunch of Chinese companies have been recently de-listed from American stock exchanges for fraud, because that's how the Chinese roll. They just don't know any other way to do business. I blame the overcrowding and zero-sum mentality that ensues. There is a firm cultural belief that in order for you to win, others must lose. There's none of this American "let's make the pie bigger so everyone wins" attitude. I've tried it, it doesn't work, people just think you're an idiot. The stock market is just a big casino because everyone knows that the books are full of shit. I know everyone likes to shit all over America's Wall Street but seriously I'd take them any day over mainland A-shares or B-shares or even anything listed in Hong Kong.
Whaaa?? Medicine is poorly done in America? You're joking, right? America has some of the best doctors in the entire world. The medical schools are full of foreigners who come to train and then go back to their home countries. An American medical school diploma is worth a lot back there. Everyone knows you can't just buy one the same way you can with the medical diplomas in their country. Maybe you're just an anti-American bigot, and as we know bigotry and ignorance are always found together.
Doctors *are* smarter. They have to be. You won't find many double-digit IQs because they don't make it out of undergraduate study.
And yet one of them keeps blowing up people who disagree with it, and the other is being culturally steamrollered by corrosive left-wing ideology. Remember Charlie Hebdo, and how Obama totally snubbed the pro-free speech march afterwards? Remember how leftists said Theo van Gogh brought it on himself? No? It went down the memory hole already? Pure psychological projection, accusing others of hate who merely want to spread the truth.
Humiliation? WTF? How's that work? It's not humiliating, it's frustrating. Like I said, it's the "you're not my boss, fuck you" attitude that really turns people away. The attitude you just displayed right there. Are you a developer on any open source projects?
To this day I remain a late, late adopter of technology. I wait until the market has sorted out the winners and losers, then go and buy the most standard piece of equipment I can find. I was deeply scarred as a youth by Betamax video tapes and the Intellivision game console. My family owned both. Both were clearly superior to their competition. It was visible to the naked eye and owners of competing systems admitted without shame that it was so.
However, back then it was considered a flippant waste of money if you had more than one standard, so that was what we had. I couldn't trade games with anyone but this one kid whose parents wouldn't let him trade games. I couldn't rent most of the tapes in the video store. I couldn't copy tapes and give them to friends. AND THEY WERE BETTER SYSTEMS! In every measure, technically, visually, flexibility-wise, the list goes on and on.
Ever since I moved out of the house and bought my first VHS, I've mistrusted my ability to judge what will win. Sometimes the only winning move is not to play. Otherwise, I'd probably be one of the people they quoted for this article.
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."
-- Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
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Who said that? I'm curious. Someone whose worldview would be advanced by the idea that the Allies cheated and beat the Nazis without playing fair? Lemme guess, the same folk who would say that the Japanese were the good guys and the Americans came after them because DATS WACIST? Guess what, it was your buddies the Communists who beat the Nazis, the Allies simply prevented them from overrunning all of Europe.
Ah, it's lovely to hear such a wonderful tale right before bed. Attorneys have dug their own graves. Don't believe me? Just ask anyone who has had to deal with an attorney in the last ten years. And they all were displaced by H1Bs happily ever after. Don't you love a happy ending to a story?
All points of view are equally valid. Some are more diverse than others. Who are you to pick and choose which are right and wrong? Sounds like you're a cultural imperialist. What's your problem with diversity of opinion? Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
Ah, yes, the good old "social Darwinism" argument. Let me guess: you aren't an educated person. If you were, you would certainly know that there was a famous 20th century person who advocated your philosophy and he was quite vocal about it. It didn't quite work out the way he intended and it all ended in tears and the complete discrediting of your philosophy. For $1000 and the daily double, please question the answer.
What we really need is a government brave enough and strong enough to tell the people NO, you cannot have that Big Mac, you cannot have that 44oz soda. The adults are stepping in and taking away your toys. Unfortunately, too many idiots think that FREEDUMB[tm] is most important, and they're willing to shorten their lives to have it. It's so wrong on so many levels. :( If only there were a political party strong enough to do this...I weep.
How is this jingoism moderated up to +5? Explain how people have the right to a job just because of a coincidence of birth? I'm having a hard time understanding this concept, it seems bizarre in our borderless world.
Diversity is just a code word for anti-white. It doesn't actually mean diverse. 100% Asian, no problem. 100% black, no problem. 60% white BIG PROBLEM. Homogenity increasing is only a problem when whites are doing it.
And the word evil gets bandied about a lot on the Left. You're really not aware of this? Seriously?
The Ferengi were the leftist writers' ridiculous caricature of capitalism. They didn't even bother to come up with a culture for them, all they knew is that capitalism was BAD, and they needed to display their political biases on the show. The writers were prudes as well, like most leftists, TNG hardly ever touched on sexuality. If it was me I'd be on the holodeck covered in girls but the only ones who ever said anything about females were those icky Ferengi. Those barbarian, sexist bastards with the big ears who only want to capture and enslave human women...mmmm....forbidden fantasy....
Nobody can help you unless you tell us what the terms are. Seriously, trademark issues are famously inexact, and being vague doesn't help one bit. It could be either way, honestly.
Should have registered the trademark yourself, that way there would never have been a problem, and if there was already a registrant, change the name of the damn software. I swear for some reason open source developers choose the dumbest names for products.
Seeing as poverty is defined relatively, it simply doesn't matter how much anyone has. If there are people who are starship captains, there are only so many starships in the Federation. Everyone can't be a captain. The definition of poverty first requires a determination of what constitutes basic needs. The 21st century definition of âoefood and shelter necessary for survivalâ will be as obsolete as the 19th century buggy whip. The 25th century definition will be âoethose lacking the prevailing community standard." You can live 24/7 in the holodeck powered by a Mr. Fusion free energy generator, and the social justice warriors will still be bitching and moaning because the self-actualization apex of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs cannot be achieved by most people in society.
"Where cultural progress is genuinely successful and ills are cured, this progress is seldom received with enthusiasm. Instead, they are taken for granted and attention focuses on those ills that remain."
-- Odo Marquard, Philosopher
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Wholly owned foreign enterprises (WOFE) have been available in China since China joined the WTO way back when. These limited corporations are fully owned by the foreign investor. There is another structure called a Joint Venture (JV) that does require a 51% share by the Chinese side, but these are typically used in restricted industries like publishing or mining where WOFEs are not allowed. They are stupid and I don't know why any foreign company ever does them.
Americans are fleeing to Latin America? Really? This is the first I've heard of it. The same Latin America that is so dysfunctional that its people are fleeing in droves to barrios in our inner cities? Think about it...our prisons offer a better quality of life than their entire countries. Sad, isn't it?
Residents of the United States of America are called Americans and have been for hundreds of years. I'm not really sure where the confusion comes from here, just ask any non-Americans and they'll tell you.
You just drop that out there without mentioning that Monica Lewinsky's ex-boyfriend's wife is going to be the Democratic presidential candidate in 2016? As soon as she crushes Bernie Sanders, of course. You just throw that out with no context? WTF?
The two are synonyms.
"A Communist Party that does not crush the masses is certainly not a Marxist Communist Party"
-- Deng Xiaoping
The defenders of the Alamo didn't lose. They made victory possible by their stubbornness and refusal to give up, even in the face of overwhelming odds. What you're talking about is certain defeat, more like the defenders of the Maginot Line. It's not your fault, schools don't teach inconvenient truths any more. :,( The whole Alamo narrative is hopelessly not leftist and therefore cannot allowed to contaminate the young. :(
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
The whole "Florida is weird" thing didn't exist until Drew Curtis' Fark.com started making it a big deal well after 9/11.
The real issue doesn't have anything to do with roads. The real issue is that a government official has openly admitted that it probably doesn't make sense that his bureau should get more money. If you've ever worked in government you know what an earth-shaking admission that is. It's like Steve Jobs saying his products don't really need rounded corners.
The problem is if you DON'T catalog your entire life online, have facebook/twitter/linkedin/ad nauseum, they don't trust you. They need to see your entire life to feel comfortable. If you're one of those "I don't do facebook" people, you've not only identified yourself as not one of their tribe, but your lack of researchable information makes you immediately suspicious. I recently lost what I thought would have been a good business deal because of this.
Wow, checking if something works outside of California. What an idea! I hope someone got promoted for that. Well, at least they didn't go too far, just Austin. Still, it's flyover territory for sure, better be careful and get all your shots before you go and check the State Department website for possible local travel warnings.
It's not "Chinese exceptionalism" (whatever that means), it's just that since 1989 the Chinese economy HAS been on a constant upward trend. Your girlfriend was basing her mentality on observed reality. She DID understand how financial markets work...in China. Sort of sad you couldn't get out of your own mind, extrapolate, and figure it out. Criticizing her for being trapped while doing the same yourself has a name in English, I forget what it is. Seriously, except for a dip in 2008, it has been up, up, up for as long as anyone can remember, certainly a post-90s girl like your ex. Everybody DID get wildly rich.
Let's note that this was all imaginary money that disappeared. This has been a while in coming, because every Chinese person knows that every company out there has two sets of books, the real books and the buffed-up books for the government. All the way from the corner store to the largest corporations. Hell, I did it with my own company, and my legitimate registered accountant was happy to help. And why not? It's what she did with all her other customers.
A bunch of Chinese companies have been recently de-listed from American stock exchanges for fraud, because that's how the Chinese roll. They just don't know any other way to do business. I blame the overcrowding and zero-sum mentality that ensues. There is a firm cultural belief that in order for you to win, others must lose. There's none of this American "let's make the pie bigger so everyone wins" attitude. I've tried it, it doesn't work, people just think you're an idiot. The stock market is just a big casino because everyone knows that the books are full of shit. I know everyone likes to shit all over America's Wall Street but seriously I'd take them any day over mainland A-shares or B-shares or even anything listed in Hong Kong.
Whaaa?? Medicine is poorly done in America? You're joking, right? America has some of the best doctors in the entire world. The medical schools are full of foreigners who come to train and then go back to their home countries. An American medical school diploma is worth a lot back there. Everyone knows you can't just buy one the same way you can with the medical diplomas in their country. Maybe you're just an anti-American bigot, and as we know bigotry and ignorance are always found together.
Doctors *are* smarter. They have to be. You won't find many double-digit IQs because they don't make it out of undergraduate study.
And yet one of them keeps blowing up people who disagree with it, and the other is being culturally steamrollered by corrosive left-wing ideology. Remember Charlie Hebdo, and how Obama totally snubbed the pro-free speech march afterwards? Remember how leftists said Theo van Gogh brought it on himself? No? It went down the memory hole already? Pure psychological projection, accusing others of hate who merely want to spread the truth.
Humiliation? WTF? How's that work? It's not humiliating, it's frustrating. Like I said, it's the "you're not my boss, fuck you" attitude that really turns people away. The attitude you just displayed right there. Are you a developer on any open source projects?
To this day I remain a late, late adopter of technology. I wait until the market has sorted out the winners and losers, then go and buy the most standard piece of equipment I can find. I was deeply scarred as a youth by Betamax video tapes and the Intellivision game console. My family owned both. Both were clearly superior to their competition. It was visible to the naked eye and owners of competing systems admitted without shame that it was so.
However, back then it was considered a flippant waste of money if you had more than one standard, so that was what we had. I couldn't trade games with anyone but this one kid whose parents wouldn't let him trade games. I couldn't rent most of the tapes in the video store. I couldn't copy tapes and give them to friends. AND THEY WERE BETTER SYSTEMS! In every measure, technically, visually, flexibility-wise, the list goes on and on.
Ever since I moved out of the house and bought my first VHS, I've mistrusted my ability to judge what will win. Sometimes the only winning move is not to play. Otherwise, I'd probably be one of the people they quoted for this article.
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."
-- Charles Dickens, David Copperfield