And what would you think of a "horseless carriage" that, er, relied on a horse somewhere in the design? Seems like they are over-complicating a very simple, very old concept with modern gadgetry. Just because the propeller was invented does not mean that absolutely the only way to move a ship is via the propeller. What's next, a nuclear powered rowboat?
More to the point - water and lithium? What could possibly go wrong.... let's hope none of the batteries ever rupture and get wet, otherwise I don't want to be around that boat.
At $0.50-0.60 a watt for today's solar panels, we're almost at the point where people can power their own homes. Unless of course you live where it rains constantly, like the pacific NW, lol. Oh and cloudy days/night time? There are energy storage solutions available - flywheels for example.
Er, upload speeds are usually nowhere near download speeds, thanks to ISP's insisting on fashioning their bandwidth that way - greedy little fucks. So yeah, good luck uploading those 500GB of movies and songs. What year did you say your trip was again?
Eh, it depends on the customs officer you get, too. I have pretty serious health conditions - heart trouble. I've had surgery. I have a pacemaker/defibrillator. I can walk short distances, etc, but standing in line at an airport for 2 hours is out, so I always get a wheelchair which the airlines are happy to provide. One day coming in to the US this bastard of an ICE officer who was obviously in a foul mood, starts giving me shit for the wheelchair, even when I told him it belongs to the airline, not to me. He seemed to think I was trying to smuggle something into the country inside it or something. Anyway he sent us to the area where they review stuff, and my wife and I got searched. The American Airlines airport wheelchair was x-rayed. Obviously they didn't find anything, and sent me on my way. But when you get a despotic official hell bent on ruining people's day, it will happen no matter what your skin color. And yes, I'm white, blonde, blue eyes, and my wife is also white.
I know for a fact that heroin is used in UK hospitals. I'm not sure about the US though, I think they don't hand out too many "licenses" for it, rather preferring the other drugs like meperidine, fentanyl, morphine, etc. I'm a doctor - but not a US doctor.
It's personal property. It's not contraband. You are allowed to own back-up copies of your CD's and DVD's. Do you really think that they would make everyone empty out their iphones and mp3 players, or go through them track by track to see if they match a purchase at the itunes store or whatever? No. Well actually the way the US is acting nowadays - maybe...
Bad analogy. There is nothing illegal in the US about owning a rip of a DVD. In fact, the law specifically states you are allowed one (1) copy for backup purposes. Unless you're downloading stuff in front of the customs officer, what is he going to do? Of course if your computer loads utorrent when started, and you have files on your HD saying stuff like "thanks for downloading warez at xxx.net site", then that might be incriminating enough - IANAL. But just having the rip? Rename it to "SomeMovie(Backup).avi" or whatever and you're 100% covered.
Using your example, it's more akin to you crossing the border while under the influence of heroin. So long as you don't act in an intoxicated/disorderly manner, there is no law against being high. The laws cover possession, distribution and sale.
Well what do you know: Different countries have different laws. Water is wet, and grass is green also. BUT that does not alter the fact that America is a surveillance, police state, and has been for a while. Your freedom is as illusive as a soap bubble. And I can cite many stupid little things that America cites as "criminal acts". That's not the point.
Assurances of liberty? None. Actual, real, liberty? There are plenty of countries. One does not speak so much of freedom as in a place where it has ceased to exist.
Judging a person from a single internet post says even more about the kind of person YOU are. Statistically, according to statistics you just pulled out of your backside, your argument is ridiculous. I am no more a rapist than you are. However I'm not some politically correct liberal piece of shit, either. You have no idea where I have been, what has happened to me, and where I am today. But you don't need to know any of that, you are already convinced of having all the answers by reading under 30 words. Well done. You're smart. I wish I was as smart as you.
Exactly. Why didn't she go to the police? Lying little cunt. Someone rapes me and I will make sure they rot in jail, not make allegations on a stupid blog. I hope she gets sued for libel.
Undermining national security. LOL. What does it feel like to see a threat in every shadow? Everyone is out to get you huh? Careful, the Democratic Republic of the Congo might just get the upper hand and de-stabilize the US before invading it!
Seriously, by fundamentally changing what the US stands for over the last 20-30 years, you have undermined your own national security. There isn't anything left worth fighting for.
A drop in the bucket, considering Latin America is well over half a billion people in a vast, emerging market. Coke and other US companies make far more than a billion a year in this market alone. The aid you give does end up coming back to you in terms of new markets. As for latin politics, I don't think an American has any grounds from which to criticize. Democrat or Republican? American politics don't matter because the result is always the same. Spend spend spend. War war war. Bully bully bully.
They would not be missed. Because it also means we wouldn't have to "Americanize" our laws - especially IP laws (impossible to enforce). And drug laws (which are expensive/impossible to enforce). Aid from the US today is given with strings attached, because the American ego thinks that everyone needs fabulous relations with the US and is willing to bend over backwards. Aid from China is given as aid, in the hope that China will gain fair treatment at the border for the goods it sells. You know. Like countries used to be when they weren't so interested in violating the sovereignty of their neighbors.
It has to use the river to connect to the Caribbean. Also Nicaragua has been dredging this river recently (and dumping the waste mud on the Costa Rican side).
Of course China is being strategic. I live in Costa Rica, where Xi Jinping just visited before going to the US, and right next to Nicaragua. China has been very generous to these small latin countries, donating stadiums, highways and bridges. Like the US used to do back in the bad old days. The US nowadays though only threatens. Threatens will sanctions, threatens with cutting aid programs, etc. Guess who is popular and who isn't in latin America now? China has pretty much bought Africa and S. America. I wonder where the US seeks to expand its economy in the future - oh yeah, they don't make anything anymore anyway.
Rubbish. Melting all the ice in Greenland and Antarctica would raise the global sea level a few inches at best. The sea level will change much more because of continental drift - but we won't be around to notice, since it will take thousands and even millions of years.
Costa Rica owns 1/2 of the San Juan river. Minor technical detail, since navigation on this river has been in dispute for at least 100 years between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Throwing a lucrative Chinese canal into the works will just make things more complicated, since Nicaragua does not have exclusive rights to the river they don't have the authority to make such a deal with China. Unless of course they build it entirely on the Nicaraguan half of the river.
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And what would you think of a "horseless carriage" that, er, relied on a horse somewhere in the design? Seems like they are over-complicating a very simple, very old concept with modern gadgetry. Just because the propeller was invented does not mean that absolutely the only way to move a ship is via the propeller. What's next, a nuclear powered rowboat?
More to the point - water and lithium? What could possibly go wrong.... let's hope none of the batteries ever rupture and get wet, otherwise I don't want to be around that boat.
I used to live in BC. Now I know why it's called "British" Columbia. It rains as much as Britain, if not more...
At $0.50-0.60 a watt for today's solar panels, we're almost at the point where people can power their own homes. Unless of course you live where it rains constantly, like the pacific NW, lol. Oh and cloudy days/night time? There are energy storage solutions available - flywheels for example.
Er, upload speeds are usually nowhere near download speeds, thanks to ISP's insisting on fashioning their bandwidth that way - greedy little fucks. So yeah, good luck uploading those 500GB of movies and songs. What year did you say your trip was again?
Eh, it depends on the customs officer you get, too. I have pretty serious health conditions - heart trouble. I've had surgery. I have a pacemaker/defibrillator. I can walk short distances, etc, but standing in line at an airport for 2 hours is out, so I always get a wheelchair which the airlines are happy to provide. One day coming in to the US this bastard of an ICE officer who was obviously in a foul mood, starts giving me shit for the wheelchair, even when I told him it belongs to the airline, not to me. He seemed to think I was trying to smuggle something into the country inside it or something. Anyway he sent us to the area where they review stuff, and my wife and I got searched. The American Airlines airport wheelchair was x-rayed. Obviously they didn't find anything, and sent me on my way. But when you get a despotic official hell bent on ruining people's day, it will happen no matter what your skin color. And yes, I'm white, blonde, blue eyes, and my wife is also white.
I know for a fact that heroin is used in UK hospitals. I'm not sure about the US though, I think they don't hand out too many "licenses" for it, rather preferring the other drugs like meperidine, fentanyl, morphine, etc. I'm a doctor - but not a US doctor.
It's personal property. It's not contraband. You are allowed to own back-up copies of your CD's and DVD's. Do you really think that they would make everyone empty out their iphones and mp3 players, or go through them track by track to see if they match a purchase at the itunes store or whatever? No. Well actually the way the US is acting nowadays - maybe...
Bad analogy. There is nothing illegal in the US about owning a rip of a DVD. In fact, the law specifically states you are allowed one (1) copy for backup purposes. Unless you're downloading stuff in front of the customs officer, what is he going to do? Of course if your computer loads utorrent when started, and you have files on your HD saying stuff like "thanks for downloading warez at xxx.net site", then that might be incriminating enough - IANAL. But just having the rip? Rename it to "SomeMovie(Backup).avi" or whatever and you're 100% covered.
Using your example, it's more akin to you crossing the border while under the influence of heroin. So long as you don't act in an intoxicated/disorderly manner, there is no law against being high. The laws cover possession, distribution and sale.
Well what do you know: Different countries have different laws. Water is wet, and grass is green also. BUT that does not alter the fact that America is a surveillance, police state, and has been for a while. Your freedom is as illusive as a soap bubble. And I can cite many stupid little things that America cites as "criminal acts". That's not the point.
Assurances of liberty? None. Actual, real, liberty? There are plenty of countries. One does not speak so much of freedom as in a place where it has ceased to exist.
No, he just alerted the US. We here in the rest of the world have known that American "freedom" is a sham for quite a while now.
Better to live a single day as a lion than a thousand years as a lamb.
Judging a person from a single internet post says even more about the kind of person YOU are. Statistically, according to statistics you just pulled out of your backside, your argument is ridiculous. I am no more a rapist than you are. However I'm not some politically correct liberal piece of shit, either. You have no idea where I have been, what has happened to me, and where I am today. But you don't need to know any of that, you are already convinced of having all the answers by reading under 30 words. Well done. You're smart. I wish I was as smart as you.
Exactly. Why didn't she go to the police? Lying little cunt. Someone rapes me and I will make sure they rot in jail, not make allegations on a stupid blog. I hope she gets sued for libel.
Undermining national security. LOL. What does it feel like to see a threat in every shadow? Everyone is out to get you huh? Careful, the Democratic Republic of the Congo might just get the upper hand and de-stabilize the US before invading it!
Seriously, by fundamentally changing what the US stands for over the last 20-30 years, you have undermined your own national security. There isn't anything left worth fighting for.
Privacy? No, privacy is only for the government.
If EvE Online couldn't get a Rifter out of Lego even when over 10,000 people signed the petition, this project is also doomed to failure.
A drop in the bucket, considering Latin America is well over half a billion people in a vast, emerging market. Coke and other US companies make far more than a billion a year in this market alone. The aid you give does end up coming back to you in terms of new markets. As for latin politics, I don't think an American has any grounds from which to criticize. Democrat or Republican? American politics don't matter because the result is always the same. Spend spend spend. War war war. Bully bully bully.
They would not be missed. Because it also means we wouldn't have to "Americanize" our laws - especially IP laws (impossible to enforce). And drug laws (which are expensive/impossible to enforce). Aid from the US today is given with strings attached, because the American ego thinks that everyone needs fabulous relations with the US and is willing to bend over backwards. Aid from China is given as aid, in the hope that China will gain fair treatment at the border for the goods it sells. You know. Like countries used to be when they weren't so interested in violating the sovereignty of their neighbors.
No. Do the math. I've done the math.
It has to use the river to connect to the Caribbean. Also Nicaragua has been dredging this river recently (and dumping the waste mud on the Costa Rican side).
Of course China is being strategic. I live in Costa Rica, where Xi Jinping just visited before going to the US, and right next to Nicaragua. China has been very generous to these small latin countries, donating stadiums, highways and bridges. Like the US used to do back in the bad old days. The US nowadays though only threatens. Threatens will sanctions, threatens with cutting aid programs, etc. Guess who is popular and who isn't in latin America now? China has pretty much bought Africa and S. America. I wonder where the US seeks to expand its economy in the future - oh yeah, they don't make anything anymore anyway.
Rubbish. Melting all the ice in Greenland and Antarctica would raise the global sea level a few inches at best. The sea level will change much more because of continental drift - but we won't be around to notice, since it will take thousands and even millions of years.
Costa Rica owns 1/2 of the San Juan river. Minor technical detail, since navigation on this river has been in dispute for at least 100 years between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Throwing a lucrative Chinese canal into the works will just make things more complicated, since Nicaragua does not have exclusive rights to the river they don't have the authority to make such a deal with China. Unless of course they build it entirely on the Nicaraguan half of the river.