You mean like a game where you beat the shit out of your state senator?
I'll buy that. When will you have it on the shelves? Oh, and don't forget the rest of the politicians. Make the low-level monsters the larval city council candidates, and have the senators show up after you beat your way through a crowd of lobbyists.
The US is not an empire. Empires do not give up territory willingly, and Japan, Germany, Italy, and the Phillippines stand as proof that the United states is not an expansionist country. The United States is at heart an isolationist society, which intervenes in the affairs of other countries with an aim towards making the world safe for isolationism.
Occasionally, and not nearly often enough, the USA has used its power to liberate the people of other countries. Far too often, it has stopped with a job half-done because of our politicians' sensitivity to criticism. The great fuck-up of Iraq wasn't the actions of the current president, but the decision of his father to leave Saddam in power. Finally, the United States is at least trying to do the right thing: topple a dictatorship, and leave a free and strong democracy in its place. Once again, thanks to the moral erosion promulgated by the American left, our leaders lacked the resolve to do it as well as could have been done (like, with enough troops to enforce public order, seal the borders and prevent Al-queda infiltration.)
The great fuck-up of Iran, besides the foot-dragging and hand-wringing over their blatant violation of their obligations under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, was to allow Iran to violate an embassy with impunity. That was an act of war, and the Iranian people would be far better off today if the USA had acted accordingly, instead of Carter's continuation of Johnson's policy of substituting UN resolutions for action. By now, they'd be a major democracy in the region, instead of a theocracy on the brink of provoking Israel into anihilating them.
The tragedy of Cuba, is that the United States didn't kill Castro for taking American sailors prisoner. That too, was an act of war, and America's failure to punish Castro has doomed Cuba to half a century of squalor. The death of every person who died in Castro's prisons or trying to escape from Cuba is on the head of JFK, for betraying the Cubans who tried to topple Castro in 1961.
The great fuck-up of Mogadishu again, was in taking half-measures instead of with sufficient forces to do the job. A country with the power of the united states has a duty to use that power to fight evil, just as the British did when they undertook the supression of the slave trade in the 1800's.
The use of military force is very much like a course of antibiotics: it must be used decisively or not at all. Starts and stops only encourage tyrants, and discourage their victims. A decisive action not only topples the dictator, it causes other dictators to live in fear, which is absolutely right. A dictator should expect to be killed, rather than allowed to die in his bed like Pol Pot.
Iran-Contra. Manuel Noriega. Vietnam. Iraq-Iran War. Lebanon. Libya. Laos. Cambodia. Haiti. Venezuela. Chile. Iraq 1. Iraq 2.
Not that I ever expect a lefty to show a basic grasp of logic, but I will point out that none of these is an example of a territorial acquisition. If the USA were the imperialist monster that Chomsky likes to claim it is, then Chavez wouldn't even be alive.
initiated wars across the globe to gain permanent territory
Not for about 100 years, sunshine. The USA walked out of the Phillippines, handed back sovereignty to every country defeated in WW2, and has repeatedly gone to war to protect other people from invasions (eg: the balkans, Kuwait,) and to topple dictators (Milosevic, Saddam Hussein), and also helped several countries to topple their dictators by themselves (Phillippines, Haiti, etc.)
I know that you Chomsky fans love to vilify the USA on nearly any pretext, but the record is a mixed one, and the USA's is much better than most.
Did you notice the phrase "until and unless"? Apple may not ever tell you how to fuck up the firmware, and they won't tell you how to break out a soldering iron and overclock your machine, either. You're free to do it to your heart's content, but if you break your Mac, take it like a man.
Tells alot about which government does more brainwashing...
Actually, I find that many Chinese have a great deal of emotional investment in the idea that Mao was a good man, and that the millions of people he killed were actually done in by the "gang of four" and other evil parties operating without Mao's knowledge. It's very hard for most Chinese to accept that the god-figure they're fed every day of their lives is actually a demon.
The brainwashing we're subjected to in the USA tends to be about things like why federal supremacy is better than state jurisdiction, why an income tax is "fair", and other BS along those lines.
Or maybe they just don't tell you, in the case someone is listening?
No, they're willing to talk about things that would get them in trouble. They ask me about their own history, because they are quite sure that they're being lied to.
Tienanmen square is the tip of the iceberg. I have conversations with people in China all the time via Skype, and they don't even know that Mao killed more Chinese than Tojo! They know that their parents lost a sibling during the cultural revolution, but they have no idea that Mao's body count is well into the tens of millions. A few of them have been stunned when I sent them the wikipedia pages on the Cutural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward.
Communism is on the way to the ash heap of history, and when companies like Google, Microsoft, and Cisco help the thugs, they're just helping in delaying the liberation of China. I hope that the Chinese people make their displeasure known when they become a free country.
What people need to realize is that Google doesn't really have a choice in the matter
Nonsense. Of course they have a choice in the matter. The right thing to do, is to continue ot offer their service as is, in whatever languages they choose, and leave it up to the Red Dynasty to deal with blocking it. Meanwhile, Chinese speakers in the rest of asia will have an advantage over those in the empire, and economic pressure will eventually lead to any number of other vendors offering ways to circumvent the thugs' censorship of search results.
Google is completely wrong to do this, and I am very disappointed in them.
What utter tripe. Apple doesn't support end-users flashing the BIOS, unless they're using an Apple-supplied firmware updater. If you break it, it's your own damned fault.
Smelling the cork is for those that ignorantly present themselves as smart
But, isn't that the whole point of drinking rancid grape juice in the first place? I mean, if someone wants to get hammered, why wouldn't they just have a shot of Jack Daniel's?
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You mean like a game where you beat the shit out of your state senator?
I'll buy that. When will you have it on the shelves? Oh, and don't forget the rest of the politicians. Make the low-level monsters the larval city council candidates, and have the senators show up after you beat your way through a crowd of lobbyists.
-jcr
The US is not an empire. Empires do not give up territory willingly, and Japan, Germany, Italy, and the Phillippines stand as proof that the United states is not an expansionist country. The United States is at heart an isolationist society, which intervenes in the affairs of other countries with an aim towards making the world safe for isolationism.
Occasionally, and not nearly often enough, the USA has used its power to liberate the people of other countries. Far too often, it has stopped with a job half-done because of our politicians' sensitivity to criticism. The great fuck-up of Iraq wasn't the actions of the current president, but the decision of his father to leave Saddam in power. Finally, the United States is at least trying to do the right thing: topple a dictatorship, and leave a free and strong democracy in its place. Once again, thanks to the moral erosion promulgated by the American left, our leaders lacked the resolve to do it as well as could have been done (like, with enough troops to enforce public order, seal the borders and prevent Al-queda infiltration.)
The great fuck-up of Iran, besides the foot-dragging and hand-wringing over their blatant violation of their obligations under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, was to allow Iran to violate an embassy with impunity. That was an act of war, and the Iranian people would be far better off today if the USA had acted accordingly, instead of Carter's continuation of Johnson's policy of substituting UN resolutions for action. By now, they'd be a major democracy in the region, instead of a theocracy on the brink of provoking Israel into anihilating them.
The tragedy of Cuba, is that the United States didn't kill Castro for taking American sailors prisoner. That too, was an act of war, and America's failure to punish Castro has doomed Cuba to half a century of squalor. The death of every person who died in Castro's prisons or trying to escape from Cuba is on the head of JFK, for betraying the Cubans who tried to topple Castro in 1961.
The great fuck-up of Mogadishu again, was in taking half-measures instead of with sufficient forces to do the job. A country with the power of the united states has a duty to use that power to fight evil, just as the British did when they undertook the supression of the slave trade in the 1800's.
The use of military force is very much like a course of antibiotics: it must be used decisively or not at all. Starts and stops only encourage tyrants, and discourage their victims. A decisive action not only topples the dictator, it causes other dictators to live in fear, which is absolutely right. A dictator should expect to be killed, rather than allowed to die in his bed like Pol Pot.
-jcr
Yes it is.
The vatican is ruled by the pope. look it up.
-jcr
Moon landings require the combustion of huge piles of money.
Yeah, but a huge pile of Russian money isn't so bad...
-jcr
Still, it is mostly a matter for the people of said sovereign state to decide.
Not in the Vatican, it's not.
-jcr
Iran-Contra. Manuel Noriega. Vietnam. Iraq-Iran War. Lebanon. Libya. Laos. Cambodia. Haiti. Venezuela. Chile. Iraq 1. Iraq 2.
Not that I ever expect a lefty to show a basic grasp of logic, but I will point out that none of these is an example of a territorial acquisition. If the USA were the imperialist monster that Chomsky likes to claim it is, then Chavez wouldn't even be alive.
-jcr
This will come as a shock to you, but I agree with Colin Campbell's take on the booth babes. I do think that they are silly.
Silly or not, prohibiting them is ill-advised.
-jcr
initiated wars across the globe to gain permanent territory
Not for about 100 years, sunshine. The USA walked out of the Phillippines, handed back sovereignty to every country defeated in WW2, and has repeatedly gone to war to protect other people from invasions (eg: the balkans, Kuwait,) and to topple dictators (Milosevic, Saddam Hussein), and also helped several countries to topple their dictators by themselves (Phillippines, Haiti, etc.)
I know that you Chomsky fans love to vilify the USA on nearly any pretext, but the record is a mixed one, and the USA's is much better than most.
-jcr
Did you notice the phrase "until and unless"? Apple may not ever tell you how to fuck up the firmware, and they won't tell you how to break out a soldering iron and overclock your machine, either. You're free to do it to your heart's content, but if you break your Mac, take it like a man.
-jcr
Tells alot about which government does more brainwashing ...
Actually, I find that many Chinese have a great deal of emotional investment in the idea that Mao was a good man, and that the millions of people he killed were actually done in by the "gang of four" and other evil parties operating without Mao's knowledge. It's very hard for most Chinese to accept that the god-figure they're fed every day of their lives is actually a demon.
The brainwashing we're subjected to in the USA tends to be about things like why federal supremacy is better than state jurisdiction, why an income tax is "fair", and other BS along those lines.
-jcr
Or maybe they just don't tell you, in the case someone is listening?
No, they're willing to talk about things that would get them in trouble. They ask me about their own history, because they are quite sure that they're being lied to.
-jcr
Tienanmen square is the tip of the iceberg. I have conversations with people in China all the time via Skype, and they don't even know that Mao killed more Chinese than Tojo! They know that their parents lost a sibling during the cultural revolution, but they have no idea that Mao's body count is well into the tens of millions. A few of them have been stunned when I sent them the wikipedia pages on the Cutural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward.
Communism is on the way to the ash heap of history, and when companies like Google, Microsoft, and Cisco help the thugs, they're just helping in delaying the liberation of China. I hope that the Chinese people make their displeasure known when they become a free country.
-jcr
What people need to realize is that Google doesn't really have a choice in the matter
Nonsense. Of course they have a choice in the matter. The right thing to do, is to continue ot offer their service as is, in whatever languages they choose, and leave it up to the Red Dynasty to deal with blocking it. Meanwhile, Chinese speakers in the rest of asia will have an advantage over those in the empire, and economic pressure will eventually lead to any number of other vendors offering ways to circumvent the thugs' censorship of search results.
Google is completely wrong to do this, and I am very disappointed in them.
-jcr
Apple can license the win32 API from MS.
Whatever for?
-jcr
What utter tripe. Apple doesn't support end-users flashing the BIOS, unless they're using an Apple-supplied firmware updater. If you break it, it's your own damned fault.
-jcr
No, he said "something as good as Altivec."
-jcr
Don't call tech support, just sell the machine for parts.
-jcr
They can through gobs of money at the problem, and that will always move things faster then a grass roots problem.
Are you an MBA or something? Does the word "longhorn" mean anything to you?
Just imagine 150 engineers working full time on Wine.
I can imagine it, and it would be the surest way to keep Wine from every seeing the light of day again.
-jcr
You underestimate the power of creative social engineering.
Difficult to do en masse. I don't foresee EFI buggering to become a widespread problem for Mac users.
-jcr
Until and unless Apple publishes a spec for how to modify the EFI, this is in the "you broke it, tough shit" category.
-jcr
Smelling the cork is for those that ignorantly present themselves as smart
But, isn't that the whole point of drinking rancid grape juice in the first place? I mean, if someone wants to get hammered, why wouldn't they just have a shot of Jack Daniel's?
-jcr
Why, the hoi polloi don't even like John Cage! Just because his music sounds like crap! Can you imagine?
Somedays, it's hardly worth getting out of bed and putting one's nose in the air!
-jcr
No news here. The display units were the first run to shake out the production line, just like when they showed the first 17" and 12" PowerBooks.
-jcr
He has a girlfriend at his age? Good for him!
-jcr
A good wine is one you like.
Peasant!
-jcr