You're a fucking nut, man. I bet you've never been out of USA, nor studied anything about economics nor history.
You're a fucking coward, man. I bet you would never say any of this stuff to a real person in real life, let alone with a pseudonym on slashdot.
Stop watching CNN, eating in McDonalds and voting Bush, and start reading books, you yankee bastard.
Stop watching the BBC and going to your local coffee shop, and start to realize the Marxist book-of-the-month won't make you any smarter, you third world prick.
First of all, those countries (China, Taiwan, Korea, etc...) don't fuck around with the rest of the world. Can we say the same about USA ????? Definitely : NO
China and Korea don't fuck around with the rest of the world - right now. They're too busy using their slave labor and wealth to build weapons stockpiles made with parts obtained from rogue countries. And no need to fuck around with the rest of the world right now - they've got their own people to starve, torture, and kill. So the next time one of these nice countries decided to come knocking on your door, wanting to take your land...don't call us. We've decided (based on your rant) not to "fuck around" with the rest of the world anymore.
Second, I could point you to hundreds of books, newspapers, articles, documents, etc... that will make you ashamed of your own post for the rest of your life. But I'm afraid that it would be too complicated for your monkey brain to understand them. So why don't you start watching "Bowling For Columbine" ?
Point away, good sir! I'll try to tune-up my monkey brain. Oh, by the way, I might just throw a few articles your way about "Bowling for Columbine" that point out the blatant lies in said *ahem* "documentary."
Anyway, given the current political climate I wouldn't say America is spectacularly better than China...
So, when do you plan on packing up and moving to China?
What's that...you would be censored from reading Slashdot? You would get paid shit wages unless you joined the communist party? You are legally restricted to only having one child? You can't practice your religion? You can't protest against the government because you'll be run over with tanks? You might be overcome by the SARS bug and the government wouldn't care because they're too worried about their reputation?
We may have our faults in the USA, but let's not get carried away.
The Reel Mower is pretty cool. I'll have to check into that when I'm a homeowner.
Reminds me - I saw a guy mowing his quarter-acre yard the other day with an industrial strength, zero-turning radius, riding mower. It was so fucking ridiculous.
Interesting? Try off topic Communism is the "natural enemy" of freedom. Ihis [sic] post has NOTHING to do with the original and is a bunch of marxist trash.Remember its never about the "issue" its always about the marxist revolution.
But what really motivates me are what-if scenarios about if I lose my job, my house, my wife, my family. I can't relax and forget how horrible it would be to lose what I have worked so hard to get.
I'm glad this works for you. But for a college student, the poster probably doesn't have this motivation.
In fact, I think more college students should actually take the time to figure out what is a rewarding career before venturing down the marriage/kids path.
Part of the problem may be that he doesn't like his major (whether he knows it yet or not). It would be a travesty to force himself to graduate with the degree, get a job, get married, and have kids, only to discover he should have been a fireman.
I'm a recent college grad (EE) and looking for employment. On the rare occasion I am able to speak with a potential employer, and they ask what field interests me, I have to either make something up or be honest and say that my biggest fear is getting bored, regardless of what I'm doing.
I worked a co-op job in which I did one-line CAD drawings and a lot of extremely boring documentation. I saw middle-aged project engineers that were totally devoid of personality, and it scared me.
In the meantime, I think I'll find a job (hopefully), pull a salary, and look for a way to retire under my own power. I don't see spending 40 years sitting behind a desk looking at the construction worker, wishing I could shovel dirt, too. I will lose all sanity before that happens.
While I don't agree with all the "problems" you stated, the ones that do exist...exist for everyone.
No, I didn't attend an inner-city school. But my school had the exact same problems; the only difference was geography. You may not hear about drugs, crime, and societal pressures bearing down on rural/suburban schools on the nightly news, but it happens.
The difference isn't money. The difference is parents, teachers, administrators, and community leaders expecting more from you, and being involved in your life to help you succeed.
Ask yourself why a crack house won't hold up for very long in a suburban neighborhood: the neighborhood won't put up with it. And when an inner-city neighborhood gets together to determine they want change they usually get it.
The day when inner-city leaders stop looking only to the outside world for monetary support, and start taking the reigns of their community to actually lead their people in internal growth, is the day success begins.
While money helps inner city schools somewhat, it's not a cure.
Most of the problems with inner city schools have to do with broken homes and lack of strong parental figures. Inner city schools will not succeed until the inner city communities come together and decide to do for themselves what government cannot.
This is what bothers me about the push to privatize education, even more than the obvious exploit of using tax money to fund private schools to brainwash kids with creationism and other such nonsense.
Private != Christian. Quit making assumptions.
The need for profit means that privatized schools will only be interested in accepting those students that produce the most bang for the buck.
How do you think colleges and universities work? Can you imagine if all public colleges had to accept everyone in a specific geographic region like a high school?
I don't know how long ago you graduated from high school, but when I was in, all students were pushed to attend college. This is an extremely bad idea. Everyone is different, with differing skill sets and talents. Your description of students being "left in the husk of the public school system" may be just what these students need (and society in general) to come to the realization that a college-prep course is not for all students. A plethora of US industries would kill to have kids graduating from high school knowing how to frame a house, machine tool parts, or wire a building.
Public schools need a wake up to realize that they're not doing students - or the country in general - any good by sticking with the same old one-for-all system. It's beginning to happen with "magnet schools," where kids can target their education. The schools are so sought after that parents camp out for days to get their kids on the rolls.
Am I saying public schools should totally go away? Not necessarily. But a move toward privatization could end up doing some real good.
I don't believe the shuttle launch would be the only expense. There would need to be some extra engineering involved to figure out how to get the Hubble from its current orbit to a new one.
That's not to say it still wouldn't be more cost effective to keep using Hubble...but there's more to it than just launching the shuttle and sending it back home.
In the end, it's up to the country where the person resides whether (s)he will be extradited or not. US attorneys don't prosecute the person in their native country.
It is the apparent goal of the United State [sic] to have our laws apply to every person on the planet. In a few more decades, we'll start issuing traffic tickets to every driver in Europe that drives on the left side of the road in direct violation of U.S. law.
Oh how quickly any thread on Slashdot turns into a "Bash the USA" party.
If someone sits in another country and willfully performs an action that, according to US law, violates an American citizen or American company, the DoJ should attempt to pursue that person.
In the end, it's up to the country where the person resides whether (s)he will be extradited or not. US attorneys don't prosecute the person in their native country.
Do you believe there is no situation where a non-US citizen should be pursued, and attempts should be made to extradite them back to the US for prosecution?
I am not saying that CNN is unbiased, but it is funny that you would mention an anchor who doesn't bash conservatives, and does not claim a lack of bias...
Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and the like don't claim to be proprietors of news. They are the equivalent of editorial writers in a newspaper: they offer opinions and viewpoints, and will tell you as much.
But when bias creeps into something that claims to be unbiased news, we should be much more worried. Tom Brokaw and other "big three" anchors don't need to openly bash conservatives; they can cloak their views as being legitimate news, which is much more dangerous in the end.
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1. To save face with the rest of the world
2. To keep the money flowing from Hong Kong to PRC via traditional Hong Kong international trade
Good post!
For the countries in question, the quality of life for their leaders improves.
You're a fucking nut, man. I bet you've never been out of USA, nor studied anything about economics nor history.
You're a fucking coward, man. I bet you would never say any of this stuff to a real person in real life, let alone with a pseudonym on slashdot.
Stop watching CNN, eating in McDonalds and voting Bush, and start reading books, you yankee bastard.
Stop watching the BBC and going to your local coffee shop, and start to realize the Marxist book-of-the-month won't make you any smarter, you third world prick.
First of all, those countries (China, Taiwan, Korea, etc...) don't fuck around with the rest of the world. Can we say the same about USA ????? Definitely : NO
China and Korea don't fuck around with the rest of the world - right now. They're too busy using their slave labor and wealth to build weapons stockpiles made with parts obtained from rogue countries. And no need to fuck around with the rest of the world right now - they've got their own people to starve, torture, and kill. So the next time one of these nice countries decided to come knocking on your door, wanting to take your land...don't call us. We've decided (based on your rant) not to "fuck around" with the rest of the world anymore.
Second, I could point you to hundreds of books, newspapers, articles, documents, etc ... that will make you ashamed of your own post for the rest of your life. But I'm afraid that it would be too complicated for your monkey brain to understand them. So why don't you start watching "Bowling For Columbine" ?
Point away, good sir! I'll try to tune-up my monkey brain. Oh, by the way, I might just throw a few articles your way about "Bowling for Columbine" that point out the blatant lies in said *ahem* "documentary."
So, when do you plan on packing up and moving to China?
What's that...you would be censored from reading Slashdot?
You would get paid shit wages unless you joined the communist party?
You are legally restricted to only having one child?
You can't practice your religion?
You can't protest against the government because you'll be run over with tanks?
You might be overcome by the SARS bug and the government wouldn't care because they're too worried about their reputation?
We may have our faults in the USA, but let's not get carried away.
*Logging off, going to spend some money at Wal-Mart...*
Reminds me - I saw a guy mowing his quarter-acre yard the other day with an industrial strength, zero-turning radius, riding mower. It was so fucking ridiculous.
Can we say "overkill"?
Obviously, anyone that is in shape will look better, relatively speaking, than someone that is not in shape.
It's also unbelievable how many people don't realize their own feet smell like hot, three day old tuna.
Interesting? Try off topic
Communism is the "natural enemy" of freedom.
Ihis [sic] post has NOTHING to do with the original and is a bunch of marxist trash.Remember its never about the "issue" its always about the marxist revolution.
I'm glad this works for you. But for a college student, the poster probably doesn't have this motivation.
In fact, I think more college students should actually take the time to figure out what is a rewarding career before venturing down the marriage/kids path.
Part of the problem may be that he doesn't like his major (whether he knows it yet or not). It would be a travesty to force himself to graduate with the degree, get a job, get married, and have kids, only to discover he should have been a fireman.
I'm a recent college grad (EE) and looking for employment. On the rare occasion I am able to speak with a potential employer, and they ask what field interests me, I have to either make something up or be honest and say that my biggest fear is getting bored, regardless of what I'm doing.
I worked a co-op job in which I did one-line CAD drawings and a lot of extremely boring documentation. I saw middle-aged project engineers that were totally devoid of personality, and it scared me.
In the meantime, I think I'll find a job (hopefully), pull a salary, and look for a way to retire under my own power. I don't see spending 40 years sitting behind a desk looking at the construction worker, wishing I could shovel dirt, too. I will lose all sanity before that happens.
No, I didn't attend an inner-city school. But my school had the exact same problems; the only difference was geography. You may not hear about drugs, crime, and societal pressures bearing down on rural/suburban schools on the nightly news, but it happens.
The difference isn't money. The difference is parents, teachers, administrators, and community leaders expecting more from you, and being involved in your life to help you succeed.
Ask yourself why a crack house won't hold up for very long in a suburban neighborhood: the neighborhood won't put up with it. And when an inner-city neighborhood gets together to determine they want change they usually get it.
The day when inner-city leaders stop looking only to the outside world for monetary support, and start taking the reigns of their community to actually lead their people in internal growth, is the day success begins.
Most of the problems with inner city schools have to do with broken homes and lack of strong parental figures. Inner city schools will not succeed until the inner city communities come together and decide to do for themselves what government cannot.
I wish the AC would have logged in. They deserve some mod points.
Private != Christian. Quit making assumptions.
The need for profit means that privatized schools will only be interested in accepting those students that produce the most bang for the buck.
How do you think colleges and universities work? Can you imagine if all public colleges had to accept everyone in a specific geographic region like a high school?
I don't know how long ago you graduated from high school, but when I was in, all students were pushed to attend college. This is an extremely bad idea. Everyone is different, with differing skill sets and talents. Your description of students being "left in the husk of the public school system" may be just what these students need (and society in general) to come to the realization that a college-prep course is not for all students. A plethora of US industries would kill to have kids graduating from high school knowing how to frame a house, machine tool parts, or wire a building.
Public schools need a wake up to realize that they're not doing students - or the country in general - any good by sticking with the same old one-for-all system. It's beginning to happen with "magnet schools," where kids can target their education. The schools are so sought after that parents camp out for days to get their kids on the rolls.
Am I saying public schools should totally go away? Not necessarily. But a move toward privatization could end up doing some real good.
That's not to say it still wouldn't be more cost effective to keep using Hubble...but there's more to it than just launching the shuttle and sending it back home.
In the end, it's up to the country where the person resides whether (s)he will be extradited or not. US attorneys don't prosecute the person in their native country.
The parent wasn't trying to convince you to vote Republican, he was just trying to make his point about anonymous voting.
Take your campaigning somewhere else.
Thank you.
Oh how quickly any thread on Slashdot turns into a "Bash the USA" party.
If someone sits in another country and willfully performs an action that, according to US law, violates an American citizen or American company, the DoJ should attempt to pursue that person.
In the end, it's up to the country where the person resides whether (s)he will be extradited or not. US attorneys don't prosecute the person in their native country.
Do you believe there is no situation where a non-US citizen should be pursued, and attempts should be made to extradite them back to the US for prosecution?
How does a defendent honestly prove that if they hadn't obtained an illegal version of the software they wouldn't have purchased it anyway?
While I agree with the sentiment of your point, I think it's not enforceable.
You just made my point.
But when bias creeps into something that claims to be unbiased news, we should be much more worried. Tom Brokaw and other "big three" anchors don't need to openly bash conservatives; they can cloak their views as being legitimate news, which is much more dangerous in the end.