If this was just my grandfather ranting about the kids today, I'd smile and nod.
But this is a man who chaired the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation during the 109th Congress, and is still on the committee today. This is someone who is going to be making direct policy decisions about the internet, not some harmless rambling old man.
Then again, he's also been the chairman of the Senate Ethics Committe. They really know how to pick them, don't they?
"Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest ***** in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad. Hiro used to feel this way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this was liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest ***** in the world. The position is taken."-Neal Stephenson
No amazing doohickey we could give them is ever going to improve their lives if there are gangs, militants and warlords controlling and threatening their stability. If all the life changing technology we donate is stolen and sold off to fund pointless tribal warfare and organized crime, then these countries will never get out of the stone age.
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Just be a little less careful when backing out of your driveway, and you should be set.
Because you can't be modded +6, insightful, and because I don't want to be modded as "Redundant", I'll simply say
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Thank you.
Personally, I blame Newton.
Obligatory screenshot of said search results.
There is no helicopter.
Well then, it's a good thing I ain't in charge of the interwebs, ain't it?
If this was just my grandfather ranting about the kids today, I'd smile and nod.
But this is a man who chaired the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation during the 109th Congress, and is still on the committee today. This is someone who is going to be making direct policy decisions about the internet, not some harmless rambling old man.
Then again, he's also been the chairman of the Senate Ethics Committe. They really know how to pick them, don't they?
Much, much too early in the discussion to summon Godwin.
I always wondered about those shifty World Wildlife Fund people...it always seemed too good to be true, and now I know it was.
I don't see "Parental Controls" on the feature list for the KenSingTon Vii
You'd have to be blind to not see what a waste of taxpayer resources this is becoming.
Not to start a big flamewar about games, but all these barbarians prancing around with faeries comes off as "pretty ghey".
Which is why EVE Online is the greatest MMO, ever.
It's okay, you're free!
Maybe it's time to upgrade to Sea++?
Support NAFTA - eat Doritos!
Like if you live in Alabama?
The US: We're not over-polluting, we're under-overpopulated!
Is to spend some of that money on gigantic fans pointed towards Tibet, Japan, or somewhere else that's not China.
Except that if you ask them, there is nowhere 'else' that is not China.
Probably about the same odds as those complainers not becoming un-persons shortly thereafter.
Yeah, because politics were never a part of the Olympic games.
Except in 1936. or 1940, 1944, 1956, 1972, 1976, 1980, or 1984.
The dream: that some day, China will be free enough to have their own fair and balanced Fox News station.
Now THAT's progress. Right, Papa Bear?
"Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest ***** in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.
Hiro used to feel this way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this was liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest ***** in the world. The position is taken."-Neal Stephenson
It ain't cheap, it ain't easy, but it's what they need most of all
No amazing doohickey we could give them is ever going to improve their lives if there are gangs, militants and warlords controlling and threatening their stability. If all the life changing technology we donate is stolen and sold off to fund pointless tribal warfare and organized crime, then these countries will never get out of the stone age.
Tell him so.
That only works as long as you're greater than 50% of the population.