Re:one of the things that annoys about us sports
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World Cup Final
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In a way, though, the world really *does* have a chance... look at all the internationals playing in the major leagues now, who come to the States to play with a truly "world-class" team. Same thing with the major European soccer leagues.
It's not "different here," either. When I lived in Japan, a couple of the major news broadcasts were dubbed in real-time English: you could push a button and change the audio feed between the two languages. There were also radio stations in English, Portuguese, Tagalog, and a couple of other funny languages. I've been told that England, Germany, and other countries with large expat populations have the same thing.
Not to mention the fact that where I live now, Miami, the Spanish-speaking population is larger than the English-speaking population... so you *could*, in effect, say "You're in Florida! HABLE ESPANOL!"
Actually, there is a competitive DDR team at my college, the University of Florida, and they've played teams at a couple of other schools in the Southeast. So it *is* possible to treat DDR as a legitimate sport. Dunno whether the NCAA will ever sanction it, but anything is possible...
Kyoto = geo-socialist rhetoric or just stupidity?
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If I remember correctly, the Kyoto protocol called for the United States to lower its emissions by eight percent, Europe to lower its emissions by seven percent, and Japan to lower its emissions by six percent (or something like that), and for the developing world to keep on pouring pollutants into the atmosphere.
Now, call me crazy, but having lived in America, Europe, and Japan, I don't think that the US is the most polluting country on Earth. Urban Japan (Osaka and Tokyo in particular) is a hell of a lot worse than any American city I've ever been to, with the possible exception of Los Angeles. And thanks to a government monopoly on leaded gas, the smog in Mexico is even more outrageous... and from what I've heard, breathing the air in Shanghai or Beijing is the equivalent of smoking two packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day.
So what's up with Kyoto? I believe that, like many other United Nations initiatives, it's an attempt to be an economic equalizer, to boost industrial development in Asia, Africa, and Latin America while hampering economic growth in the developed nations. Science and common sense both tell us that if implemented, it will do very little, if anything, to stop or even slow global warming.
A global ban on certain chemical emissions would do a much better job, but who's going to go with that idea? Certainly no state that emits those chemicals--i.e. every country in the world.
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In a way, though, the world really *does* have a chance... look at all the internationals playing in the major leagues now, who come to the States to play with a truly "world-class" team. Same thing with the major European soccer leagues.
Tell that to a Cuban, Mexican, Japanese, Korean...
Wasn't there some junior-high-school-level text file on doing that? Hooking up a big dipole antenna to a signal booster coming out of a camcorder...?
It's not "different here," either. When I lived in Japan, a couple of the major news broadcasts were dubbed in real-time English: you could push a button and change the audio feed between the two languages. There were also radio stations in English, Portuguese, Tagalog, and a couple of other funny languages. I've been told that England, Germany, and other countries with large expat populations have the same thing.
Not to mention the fact that where I live now, Miami, the Spanish-speaking population is larger than the English-speaking population... so you *could*, in effect, say "You're in Florida! HABLE ESPANOL!"
First came judo, and next will be DDR :/
Actually, there is a competitive DDR team at my college, the University of Florida, and they've played teams at a couple of other schools in the Southeast. So it *is* possible to treat DDR as a legitimate sport. Dunno whether the NCAA will ever sanction it, but anything is possible...
If I remember correctly, the Kyoto protocol called for the United States to lower its emissions by eight percent, Europe to lower its emissions by seven percent, and Japan to lower its emissions by six percent (or something like that), and for the developing world to keep on pouring pollutants into the atmosphere.
Now, call me crazy, but having lived in America, Europe, and Japan, I don't think that the US is the most polluting country on Earth. Urban Japan (Osaka and Tokyo in particular) is a hell of a lot worse than any American city I've ever been to, with the possible exception of Los Angeles. And thanks to a government monopoly on leaded gas, the smog in Mexico is even more outrageous... and from what I've heard, breathing the air in Shanghai or Beijing is the equivalent of smoking two packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day.
So what's up with Kyoto? I believe that, like many other United Nations initiatives, it's an attempt to be an economic equalizer, to boost industrial development in Asia, Africa, and Latin America while hampering economic growth in the developed nations. Science and common sense both tell us that if implemented, it will do very little, if anything, to stop or even slow global warming.
A global ban on certain chemical emissions would do a much better job, but who's going to go with that idea? Certainly no state that emits those chemicals--i.e. every country in the world.