Wait - are you actually advocating the government to be run by insiders? They're the problem, moron. I vote for outsiders whenever I can.
PS they didn't fail in business - they're usually wildly successful and want a new challenge. My cousin failed in business and is nowhere near any political machine - although being an incompetent, maybe he should apply.
I'm not sure we'll have to worry about it for millenia if not more
This is exactly the sort of pigheaded ignorance that got us into the carbon crisis we're in now. If there is an environmental cost for geothermal, we pay that up front, right now, instead of just letting corporations get rich from plundering our own planet's heat. Let's do the research first before we start tampering with things we don't understand. Fucking anti-science douchebags!
Oh, please...the Nobel Prize is awarded to encourage good behavior, not to recognize past achievements. Just give it up already, we understand you're angry that Obama has one.
Anyone who puts the Spratly Islands under Chinese territory is a commie stooge. Seriously, I'm not being ironic. The only place you should ever see that map is Xinhua news. China is very firm about it, publications get banned all the time for not including it. It's interesting that the scientists see a dark hand at work...shows what they're thinking. The simple truth is that anything that goes for approval from the government, which presumably includes scientific papers to be published internationally, must include that map. It's simple government policy, nothing more, nothing less. If the paper didn't include that map, it wouldn't be approved, and who wants to have their research canceled if you're not out to make a statement?
However, agreeing to publish this is quite another thing. It's despicable of Science, Nature and Climatic Change to let this pass without correction. Shit on them, anyone who cooperates with commie stooges is a commie stooge sympathizer.
"Stood by" while France and Belgium were invaded? What the hell? That's a new one for me. I've heard tons of creative trashing of America for the most far-fetched reasons, but this is a doozy.
You do know that France was the world's foremost military power in 1940 and everybody expected her to beat the Germans handily, right? Furthermore, any theoretical American Expeditionary Force would have been routed by the Nazis just like the British were, and just clogged up the beaches at Dunkirk. I suppose that whole "liberating France & Belgium four years later" thing did nothing that deserves any credit.
3) You actually watch broadcast TV and are aware of the series on the air. 4) You think that remaking a show that went off the air when Nixon was president is a cool thing that's entirely appropriate.
Please stop using the word empire, you don't know what it means. I'd expect a European to have better knowledge of the history of imperialism than this. After all, Europe had real, actual empires. By the way, how are those reparation programs going for the victims of European imperialism?
FYI: "bumming a ride" is American slang derived from railroad hobos meaning "to ride for free where someone is already going anyway". It's a synonym for hitchhiking. America pays cold hard cash for its satellite lifts. Please stop using this phrase, you don't know what it means.
Yes, because a roll of aluminum foil can easily wallpaper an entire room, and aluminum foil is readily available in war zones. Moreover, snipers will carry enough foil to wallpaper the multiple rooms they displace to after shooting once. Whatta dumbass remark.
Geez, those Americans really plotted this one out, didn't they? Spend billions launching and maintaining a constellation of satellites for military targeting, then make that available to civilians, and not even restrict it to US citizens! They made the whole world dependent on GPS, those evil fuckers. That was their plan all along. Fortunately, far-sighted souls in the European government saw through this ruse. Now Europe is rightfully making themselves independent of the Wall Street-controlled US government. Right on! Hit Americans where it hurts.
Haha, yeah right. Actors are known as great thinkers. What tiny world are you living in? Have you ever actually hung out with actors? I have. Holy moly, airheads would not be an exaggeration.
Oh, not this bullshit again. The constitution is a living document. This generation is simply interpreting it according to the times. Get real! Freaking originalist teabaggers...
It's not despite our technology, it's because of our technology. Putting all your eggs in one basket is rewarded in tech business. The downside is that one bad event can wipe out the globe's supply of one resource.
Actually, this happens all the time. I don't know how this made it past the media filters. "Businesses end relationship" is not news. I suppose this is a vestige of Slashdot being an industry news site, instead of the political point of view site it seems to have become.
Lionizing William Shatner as a hero is dumb. You deserve what you get - and indeed, Trekkies were huge losers, at least when I hung out with them. William Shatner is an actor, and actors aren't exactly known for shining intellects. Look how many of them fall for cults like Scientology or various scientific frauds. Acting is all about feeling, which is pretty much the polar opposite of thinking.
Assuming US dollars? Uh, dude, I don't think anyone here uses Hong Kong dollars or Namibian dollars in casual conversation. From now on, assume lowercase-d dollar means USD. I've been living abroad for years and nobody but you ever has this confusion. Pompous ass.
How can they 'resent' it when it is they themselves who are copying America? Nobody's putting a gun to their heads.
And I wouldn't bank on those vaunted 'local companies', either. In my experience as an international businessman, the local companies typically can't innovate themselves out of a wet paper bag, much less identify what their market wants, much less actually competently give it to them.
Of course - the residents of these places should not have "the good life" like Americans...they should rusticize themselves and keep the crappy native traditions, just so tourists can feel better about themselves. Curse America for "forcing" these places to change!
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PS they didn't fail in business - they're usually wildly successful and want a new challenge. My cousin failed in business and is nowhere near any political machine - although being an incompetent, maybe he should apply.
This is exactly the sort of pigheaded ignorance that got us into the carbon crisis we're in now. If there is an environmental cost for geothermal, we pay that up front, right now, instead of just letting corporations get rich from plundering our own planet's heat. Let's do the research first before we start tampering with things we don't understand. Fucking anti-science douchebags!
Oh, please...the Nobel Prize is awarded to encourage good behavior, not to recognize past achievements. Just give it up already, we understand you're angry that Obama has one.
OK, sure, then stop using the word fascist. Oh, you won't be doing that, eh?
However, agreeing to publish this is quite another thing. It's despicable of Science, Nature and Climatic Change to let this pass without correction. Shit on them, anyone who cooperates with commie stooges is a commie stooge sympathizer.
You do know that France was the world's foremost military power in 1940 and everybody expected her to beat the Germans handily, right? Furthermore, any theoretical American Expeditionary Force would have been routed by the Nazis just like the British were, and just clogged up the beaches at Dunkirk. I suppose that whole "liberating France & Belgium four years later" thing did nothing that deserves any credit.
4) You think that remaking a show that went off the air when Nixon was president is a cool thing that's entirely appropriate.
I know which I consider more embarrassing.
China has their own GPS network already up and operating. Why not use them, as they're Europe's new BFF?
Please stop using the word empire, you don't know what it means. I'd expect a European to have better knowledge of the history of imperialism than this. After all, Europe had real, actual empires. By the way, how are those reparation programs going for the victims of European imperialism?
FYI: "bumming a ride" is American slang derived from railroad hobos meaning "to ride for free where someone is already going anyway". It's a synonym for hitchhiking. America pays cold hard cash for its satellite lifts. Please stop using this phrase, you don't know what it means.
Yes, because a roll of aluminum foil can easily wallpaper an entire room, and aluminum foil is readily available in war zones. Moreover, snipers will carry enough foil to wallpaper the multiple rooms they displace to after shooting once. Whatta dumbass remark.
Geez, those Americans really plotted this one out, didn't they? Spend billions launching and maintaining a constellation of satellites for military targeting, then make that available to civilians, and not even restrict it to US citizens! They made the whole world dependent on GPS, those evil fuckers. That was their plan all along. Fortunately, far-sighted souls in the European government saw through this ruse. Now Europe is rightfully making themselves independent of the Wall Street-controlled US government. Right on! Hit Americans where it hurts.
Oh, so your one anecdote outweighs the American Academy of Pediatrics? So, what was your doctorate in? Oh, you don't have one? Freaking breeders...
Haha, yeah right. Actors are known as great thinkers. What tiny world are you living in? Have you ever actually hung out with actors? I have. Holy moly, airheads would not be an exaggeration.
But yeah, more fun just to yell and scream that the evil liberals are trying to silence the voice of conservatives.
They're not? What world do you live in?
Oh, not this bullshit again. The constitution is a living document. This generation is simply interpreting it according to the times. Get real! Freaking originalist teabaggers...
It's not despite our technology, it's because of our technology. Putting all your eggs in one basket is rewarded in tech business. The downside is that one bad event can wipe out the globe's supply of one resource.
Actually, this happens all the time. I don't know how this made it past the media filters. "Businesses end relationship" is not news. I suppose this is a vestige of Slashdot being an industry news site, instead of the political point of view site it seems to have become.
How about eating less? That would tackle the problem of obesity as well.
Lionizing William Shatner as a hero is dumb. You deserve what you get - and indeed, Trekkies were huge losers, at least when I hung out with them. William Shatner is an actor, and actors aren't exactly known for shining intellects. Look how many of them fall for cults like Scientology or various scientific frauds. Acting is all about feeling, which is pretty much the polar opposite of thinking.
Well, I was totally going to agree with you - until that racist statement in the last sentence. Bad form. No points.
Assuming US dollars? Uh, dude, I don't think anyone here uses Hong Kong dollars or Namibian dollars in casual conversation. From now on, assume lowercase-d dollar means USD. I've been living abroad for years and nobody but you ever has this confusion. Pompous ass.
And I wouldn't bank on those vaunted 'local companies', either. In my experience as an international businessman, the local companies typically can't innovate themselves out of a wet paper bag, much less identify what their market wants, much less actually competently give it to them.
Wait, what? Why would anyone want to hang out with Apple aficionados?
Of course - the residents of these places should not have "the good life" like Americans...they should rusticize themselves and keep the crappy native traditions, just so tourists can feel better about themselves. Curse America for "forcing" these places to change!