It's a good thing that the Texas Republicans, unique in the world, are the first politcal organization in the history of Man who only care about votes and not the wishes of individuals.
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
If the government put a gun to my head and forced me to vote, I'd just vote for some nutbag candidate like Lyndon LaRouche or the Greens or David Duke or something. More nutbags with real government power can only be bad.
Surprise, surprise, people do not all have the same opinions. I also thought Bladerunner was an excellent place to live. Bright, shining, peaceful utopic suburbs like the one I grew up in are horrible hellholes.
I tried several huge cities, but nothing did the trick until I moved to Tokyo. Nishi-Shinjuku, even. Well, that's out of my system now. You know the opening montage of "Lost in Translation", with the mesmerising colors and huge signs? That's about 5 minutes away from my old house.
There's plenty of bribery...ever hear of UNSCAM? No wonder you didn't hear about it, the news hasn't been reporting it. Basically, certain UN members (guess who they were) took bribes from the oil-for-food program. Huge scandal, almost zero splash in the media. One story here.
Here's how the scam allegedly worked: Saddam sold oil to his friends and allies around the world at deep discounts. The buyers resold the oil at huge profits. Saddam then got kickbacks of 10 percent from both the oil traders and the suppliers of humanitarian goods. Iraqi bean counters, fortunately, kept meticulous records.
Coincidence. If you wondered why the French were so hostile to America's approach to Iraq and even opposed to ending the sanctions after the 1991 Gulf War, here's one possible explanation: French oil traders got 165 million barrels of Iraqi crude at cut-rate prices. The CEO of one French company, SOCO International, got vouchers for 36 million barrels of Iraqi oil. Was it just a coincidence that the man is a close political and financial supporter of President Jacques Chirac?
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Have you ever worked with a recent graduate, just out of college? They're astoundingly inept at everything, while thinking that they're actually pretty good. I submit that college is a load of crap, mostly, and makes no difference in the quality of new hires.
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Japatrash? I think that your racism is really out of place here.
Please, please, please review the differences between a WWII fragmentation bomb, and a cluster bomb. I can't believe someone is actually defending a journalist's sloppy, inaccurate reporting.
It's hardly appropriate that such superstition should be given encouragement in this day and age. Penn & Teller did a great bit on "feng shui" on their show, "Bullshit!". They had 3 different feng shui consultants come in to a house, and each one recommended different changes for different reasons. Some discipline.
You can hardly call the incindiary charges "cluster bombs". Indeed, there were many bomblets inside a larger container, but nobody called them cluster bombs. The usage in this case was a journalist who had no idea what he was reporting on, and simply made up details.
Look, assbag, do you *KNOW* any Hollywood types? Have you lived in L.A.? STFU until you have some actual information. Until then, keep posting that "outraged" drivel in your weblog.
Makes you wonder how they could be accepted. The (very few) hollywood/tv types I knew in L.A. were vurrrrry correct about everything. They wouldn't dream of doing a project with anyone who disagreed with their beliefs.
Much of the homemade "humor" on the internet is like this. Someone's good idea that doesn't really fly. It would have been good for a faint smile if it had been aimed at a much, MUCH narrower audience instead of at Slashdot.
Everyone thinks they can be The Onion, and they can't. Sorry guys.
I dunno man...I've seen firsthand how the Chinese do things. I wouldn't worry too much. Their engineers aren't particularly creative, more like plodding drones that are great at making copies of others' product, but when you ask them to come up with their own ideas, they either come up with something really obvious or really questionable.
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That could easily be construed as racism, if the perpetrators are not caucasian.
It's a good thing that the Texas Republicans, unique in the world, are the first politcal organization in the history of Man who only care about votes and not the wishes of individuals.
If the government put a gun to my head and forced me to vote, I'd just vote for some nutbag candidate like Lyndon LaRouche or the Greens or David Duke or something. More nutbags with real government power can only be bad.
I tried several huge cities, but nothing did the trick until I moved to Tokyo. Nishi-Shinjuku, even. Well, that's out of my system now. You know the opening montage of "Lost in Translation", with the mesmerising colors and huge signs? That's about 5 minutes away from my old house.
Yeah, it took a while for me to figure it out as well.
Is racist humor popular in Japan as well?
GPS doesn't work inside a bar. Or anywhere inside, for that matter.
Ra! Ra! Ra!
Here's how the scam allegedly worked: Saddam sold oil to his friends and allies around the world at deep discounts. The buyers resold the oil at huge profits. Saddam then got kickbacks of 10 percent from both the oil traders and the suppliers of humanitarian goods. Iraqi bean counters, fortunately, kept meticulous records. Coincidence. If you wondered why the French were so hostile to America's approach to Iraq and even opposed to ending the sanctions after the 1991 Gulf War, here's one possible explanation: French oil traders got 165 million barrels of Iraqi crude at cut-rate prices. The CEO of one French company, SOCO International, got vouchers for 36 million barrels of Iraqi oil. Was it just a coincidence that the man is a close political and financial supporter of President Jacques Chirac?
A whole lot of work for a thread that was dead 5 days ago. Face it, the journo didn't know what he was saying, technical explanations to the contrary.
Stick it to The Man.
Have you ever worked with a recent graduate, just out of college? They're astoundingly inept at everything, while thinking that they're actually pretty good. I submit that college is a load of crap, mostly, and makes no difference in the quality of new hires.
Japatrash? I think that your racism is really out of place here.
Please, please, please review the differences between a WWII fragmentation bomb, and a cluster bomb. I can't believe someone is actually defending a journalist's sloppy, inaccurate reporting.
It's hardly appropriate that such superstition should be given encouragement in this day and age. Penn & Teller did a great bit on "feng shui" on their show, "Bullshit!". They had 3 different feng shui consultants come in to a house, and each one recommended different changes for different reasons. Some discipline.
You can hardly call the incindiary charges "cluster bombs". Indeed, there were many bomblets inside a larger container, but nobody called them cluster bombs. The usage in this case was a journalist who had no idea what he was reporting on, and simply made up details.
Look, assbag, do you *KNOW* any Hollywood types? Have you lived in L.A.? STFU until you have some actual information. Until then, keep posting that "outraged" drivel in your weblog.
There were no such things as "cluster bombs" in WWII. Typical journalism. If it was the BBC reporting, I wouldn't be surprised in the least.
Makes you wonder how they could be accepted. The (very few) hollywood/tv types I knew in L.A. were vurrrrry correct about everything. They wouldn't dream of doing a project with anyone who disagreed with their beliefs.
Everyone thinks they can be The Onion, and they can't. Sorry guys.
Seriously, anyone who quotes Guy Debord in a casual conversation is a wackjob.
Hint: AOL has chat rooms. IRC has channels.
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun.
Give it up...there are like six people in the country who give a crap about "high-end" players. The rest of us just want to watch Batman and Jumanji.
I dunno man...I've seen firsthand how the Chinese do things. I wouldn't worry too much. Their engineers aren't particularly creative, more like plodding drones that are great at making copies of others' product, but when you ask them to come up with their own ideas, they either come up with something really obvious or really questionable.