Who was it that said "where one burns books, one ultimately burns people"? What is the internet but a great giant book that everyone can write a chapter in? The comparison between censorship and murder is older than both of us.
Yeah, the "held domestically" part is the fluff I was talking about. The biggest buyer of US treasuries is - the US government. No printing press required when you can just issue bonds to yourself.
a journalist and made the comment on live TV while he was acting in an official capacity
ROFL. Yeah, journalists in "official" capacity. When did Americans stop thinking for themselves - oh let me rephrase that, when are Americans going to start thinking for themselves?
it's somebody else's nation and financed by our national debt.
You have to know who your pimp is. Financing is done by China and Japan, since they own most of the national debt (the US government holds most of the rest, but that's just the fluff that's propping up the illusion of the US dollar).
And how does this affect foreign policy (what was originally being discussed) again? When you're trying to wriggle out of the frying pan don't forget that if you wriggle hard enough you end up in an entirely different context, ie the fire. Wait, I get it. Now you're just trolling.
The US having the most guns. Nope. The US might have the biggest military budget. It might have expensive toys. However it does not have "the most guns". Russia has 21 million conscripts under arms at any time. North Korea has 9 million troops. South Korea has 8 million. India and China each have about 5 million troops. The US has about 3 million. While you might argue that the US soldier is better equipped, yada yada yada, but what it comes down to is that an American soldier costs much, much more than any other soldier. Actual effectiveness against a real, similar sized army has yet to be tested, and honestly I wouldn't want to live long enough to see that. Be assured that Russia or China aren't pushovers like Iraq and Afghanistan, even if you consider their troops to be "inferior". Lots of little ants can kill and carry surprisingly big critters.
I hardly care about enforcing against piracy, but id like to point out that natonalism is very last-generation and will die with our parents.
I'm not so sure. That same fervor that drives religion, politics and sports fanaticism is what drives nationalism. I think this (misplaced) feeling of pride about what someone else is doing or saying or playing so long as he a) goes to the right church, b) plays for the right team, c) belongs to the right party or d) lives in our neighborhood is hard wired into our minds. Just like dogs have a mechanism that makes them prefer to live in organized packs, we humans love to form little tribes, clans or cliques. Yes the country may become less important, values may shift, but at the end of the day if you're not from [insert your town here] then you're a damned foreigner. It takes a lot of intelligence to become aware of this instinct and override it. Most people just aren't that smart.
I prefer the term "evolve", into something new and wonderful and decentralized that completely sidesteps political grandstanding. Politicians are always a few years behind. It really only takes one person to come up with a suitable interface, and within a week everything is different. Look at how fast twitter became a common site - not that there's anything great about twitter, but that is the speed at which new technology is adapted into our modern lives. Give enough people a need (avoid censorship) and they will have a reason to a) invent or b) adopt a new technology that steps around it. We're all connected now. You can't simply disconnect us.
Yeah I know, you must have wasted a good half hour reading those unwanted posts but I promise you, the more you read the faster you'll get until eventually it won't be such a big deal. After a mere sentence or two you'll know whether a post is worth reading or not, and it might only take you a second or so. But for now keep working on your words!
Forum rage makes me laugh and wonder exactly how pathetic your life must be.
You think big media doesn't want an internet kill switch? You should only be viewing authorized content which you have paid for, and which is generating suitable ad revenue.
Welcome to the real world, where other people besides you can say things and even express differences in opinion and humor than you. No one is forcing you to read these posts. I suggest that if anyone shut the fuck up, you should take a long look in the mirror.
Presumably that is assuming current gasoline prices. Put crude at $300/barrel and you will see a far greater shift towards electric. In fact most people won't have a choice - it will be that, or public transport. Now, you may think I'm insane talking about $300/barrel oil. But remember that China is growing at 10% per year, every year. They're not even near their peak and already they have replaced the US as Germany's biggest client. They are offering to bail out troubled countries in Europe. The age of the Dragon is about to begin. But it's going to need (the last) oil.
Why would the battery run out? Unlike a gas engine, an electric car doesn't need to "idle". Presumably Toyota are smart enough to include a mechanism to store mechanical braking energy to give you a little non electric boost when you accelerate from a standstill so you're not drawing max amps from the battery all the time during stop-start traffic.
And I don't really understand what a gardening tool (hoe) has to do with prostitution either. The word you were looking for is "whore". Unless, of course, your IQ is well under 90.
I couldn't seem to find any references as to the size of the payload this device can hoist up to 600 feet. I mean it's cute and everything but if it can't fly when you add a camera, exactly what kind of "surveillance" do you plan on doing with it?
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Who was it that said "where one burns books, one ultimately burns people"? What is the internet but a great giant book that everyone can write a chapter in? The comparison between censorship and murder is older than both of us.
They didn't mention puppies at all.
Yeah, the "held domestically" part is the fluff I was talking about. The biggest buyer of US treasuries is - the US government. No printing press required when you can just issue bonds to yourself.
So what does the spirit of the revolution have to say about the American media obsession with the British royal family? Cake and eat it too?
a journalist and made the comment on live TV while he was acting in an official capacity
ROFL. Yeah, journalists in "official" capacity. When did Americans stop thinking for themselves - oh let me rephrase that, when are Americans going to start thinking for themselves?
it's somebody else's nation and financed by our national debt.
You have to know who your pimp is. Financing is done by China and Japan, since they own most of the national debt (the US government holds most of the rest, but that's just the fluff that's propping up the illusion of the US dollar).
And how does this affect foreign policy (what was originally being discussed) again? When you're trying to wriggle out of the frying pan don't forget that if you wriggle hard enough you end up in an entirely different context, ie the fire. Wait, I get it. Now you're just trolling.
The US having the most guns. Nope. The US might have the biggest military budget. It might have expensive toys. However it does not have "the most guns". Russia has 21 million conscripts under arms at any time. North Korea has 9 million troops. South Korea has 8 million. India and China each have about 5 million troops. The US has about 3 million. While you might argue that the US soldier is better equipped, yada yada yada, but what it comes down to is that an American soldier costs much, much more than any other soldier. Actual effectiveness against a real, similar sized army has yet to be tested, and honestly I wouldn't want to live long enough to see that. Be assured that Russia or China aren't pushovers like Iraq and Afghanistan, even if you consider their troops to be "inferior". Lots of little ants can kill and carry surprisingly big critters.
I hardly care about enforcing against piracy, but id like to point out that natonalism is very last-generation and will die with our parents.
I'm not so sure. That same fervor that drives religion, politics and sports fanaticism is what drives nationalism. I think this (misplaced) feeling of pride about what someone else is doing or saying or playing so long as he a) goes to the right church, b) plays for the right team, c) belongs to the right party or d) lives in our neighborhood is hard wired into our minds. Just like dogs have a mechanism that makes them prefer to live in organized packs, we humans love to form little tribes, clans or cliques. Yes the country may become less important, values may shift, but at the end of the day if you're not from [insert your town here] then you're a damned foreigner. It takes a lot of intelligence to become aware of this instinct and override it. Most people just aren't that smart.
And why the internet is going to rapidly degrade
I prefer the term "evolve", into something new and wonderful and decentralized that completely sidesteps political grandstanding. Politicians are always a few years behind. It really only takes one person to come up with a suitable interface, and within a week everything is different. Look at how fast twitter became a common site - not that there's anything great about twitter, but that is the speed at which new technology is adapted into our modern lives. Give enough people a need (avoid censorship) and they will have a reason to a) invent or b) adopt a new technology that steps around it. We're all connected now. You can't simply disconnect us.
Nope. But the US has shown willingness to use the guns it has. Now explain to me again how this makes the US the "good guys" again.
Yeah I know, you must have wasted a good half hour reading those unwanted posts but I promise you, the more you read the faster you'll get until eventually it won't be such a big deal. After a mere sentence or two you'll know whether a post is worth reading or not, and it might only take you a second or so. But for now keep working on your words!
Forum rage makes me laugh and wonder exactly how pathetic your life must be.
You think big media doesn't want an internet kill switch? You should only be viewing authorized content which you have paid for, and which is generating suitable ad revenue.
Welcome to the real world, where other people besides you can say things and even express differences in opinion and humor than you. No one is forcing you to read these posts. I suggest that if anyone shut the fuck up, you should take a long look in the mirror.
Presumably that is assuming current gasoline prices. Put crude at $300/barrel and you will see a far greater shift towards electric. In fact most people won't have a choice - it will be that, or public transport. Now, you may think I'm insane talking about $300/barrel oil. But remember that China is growing at 10% per year, every year. They're not even near their peak and already they have replaced the US as Germany's biggest client. They are offering to bail out troubled countries in Europe. The age of the Dragon is about to begin. But it's going to need (the last) oil.
Why would the battery run out? Unlike a gas engine, an electric car doesn't need to "idle". Presumably Toyota are smart enough to include a mechanism to store mechanical braking energy to give you a little non electric boost when you accelerate from a standstill so you're not drawing max amps from the battery all the time during stop-start traffic.
And I don't really understand what a gardening tool (hoe) has to do with prostitution either. The word you were looking for is "whore". Unless, of course, your IQ is well under 90.
With a Seagate Barracuda I think the challenge is getting the thing to actually run for over a minute.
Er no, you're expected to have memorized all that data before rounds... the charts are only to find out which resident is slacking.
I couldn't seem to find any references as to the size of the payload this device can hoist up to 600 feet. I mean it's cute and everything but if it can't fly when you add a camera, exactly what kind of "surveillance" do you plan on doing with it?
Doctors don't need these fancy devices when doing rounds. They carry them just for showing off. The real data is stored on the interns/residents.
Yes because everyone knows that Cisco stands for security.
I'm glad my darling's 14 million dollar annual research budget consists of zero decisions...
Let me know when we can get fans that don't need blades.
Ahh, if only air were electrically charged....
Good thing that practicing law without a brain is still allowed.