I did read your whole post... but I thought you were a knee jerk American saying "Why are Australians unconcerned about terrorist attacks? They should be taking a pro-active approach to defending their country against dirty Arabs/dirty Muslims/dirty Non-Jewstian" or some such.
Australia isn't under any significant threat from terrorists actions, and won't be for the foreseeable future. Contrast this to the US' anthrax, Okalahoma city bombings, two WTC attacks, the Waco incident, yadda yadda yadda.
The US' government is intent on attacking its citizens, its citizens are intent on attacking their government, other countries are intent on attacking the US and the US is intent on attacking other countries.
A few Synagauge (or however the fuck you spell it) burnings, but no fatalities. And hey, they send back money to Israel, so they're culpable. Canadian? No worries, my friend.
Every once in awhile we throw the Americans a bone (like our troops helping in their little "War Against Afghanistan" or "War against Islamic peoples" or whatever they're calling it these days), but that's just because we're nice fellows.
Last time in 1975 they had American support, but looks like they decided to go it alone this time.
The post you're replying to didn't say that
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The wealthy Noam Chomskys of the world run around saying it is somehow YOUR fault that those dirt poor Kuwaitis are poor.
The original poster didn't say that at all. And besides, Kuwait is a very, very rich country. If you think that lower class Kuwaiti's are living a miserable, poverty-stricken existance, than well - donate to the Christian Charity Fund today! That way, you can placate your delusions of cultural superiority.
GDP/capita in Kuwait is 2/3 of US's GDP/capita
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But your money would go a hell of a lot farther there than it does in the US.
The CIA was created to overthrow the government of the one and only Iran.
Which they succeeded in, admirably, for a few decades at least... until Persians reclaimed their country from the Great Satan.
The religious fervor of the clerics can be seen as a barrier between democracy and tyranny. It's a sad by-product that there are many bad laws and bad penalties in Iran.
The alternative (American backed dictatorship) is far worse.
See: Saudi Arabia
There's a reason Lady Liberty is smoking a cigarette and looking mighty bulemic
yeah, poisioning yourself with fucking alcohol seems like a much better Idea.
Well fuck, why not place a placard on your forehead that says "I am a fucking loser and no girl would ever share a pint of beer with me, let alone fuck me."
Is you learn how to write in English. You've responded to two of my posts with some garbled excuse for paragraphs and sentences.
Try to go there and put yourself up for candidacy
As it happens, there's a romantic side to me that would love to do that very same thing - but definately not "preaching western values and questioning (the) role of Islam," since I find western values to be incredibly chauvenistic (sp) and dehumanizing. When in Persia, you do as the Persians.
And certainly, in a country like the United States, any candidate who was not Christian would not stand a chance in hell of being elected to a position of any significant power. But that's the flip side of the coin, isn't it?
All of those countries complain about us all the time, but their upper echelon is filthy rich off of the money we pay them for their black gold.
The second one of those "backwards" Middle Eastern countries tries to nationalize their oil industries, America makes sure they pay with blood and tears.
See the above post about Iran, which today no longer has an "upper elechon (which gets) filthy rich off of the money we pay them," and the US villianizes them to no end, simultaneously making their intentions for the region obvious (witness Suadi Arabia) and making them the laughing stock of Europe (any country that considers Iran even *near* the 'worst' of Middle Eastern countries is borked)
And the usage of plastic is of course very high (irrationally so), but that can be cut back as well. When's the last time you walked into a McDonald's and your hamburger was in a strofoam case?
It's amazing how many posts here are saying "Free our dependence? Hahaha, no way!" as if A)there are no other energy sources and B)We've been using oil for energy for the entirety of humanity's existance.
It's no wonder we support the oppression of the peoples of Saudi Arabia. We don't know any other way.
Does one of those links explain how the hell we got from "Say, this long strand of weakly held together goo looks interesting" to A thermophile (heat loving organism), thermus aquaticus, provided a polymerase?
I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you're selling it,you're selling it.
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I did read your whole post... but I thought you were a knee jerk American saying "Why are Australians unconcerned about terrorist attacks? They should be taking a pro-active approach to defending their country against dirty Arabs/dirty Muslims/dirty Non-Jewstian" or some such.
Never let it be said that Blacktriangle is one to read all the way through posts before responding.
Australia isn't under any significant threat from terrorists actions, and won't be for the foreseeable future. Contrast this to the US' anthrax, Okalahoma city bombings, two WTC attacks, the Waco incident, yadda yadda yadda.
The US' government is intent on attacking its citizens, its citizens are intent on attacking their government, other countries are intent on attacking the US and the US is intent on attacking other countries.
None of this applies to Australia.
A few Synagauge (or however the fuck you spell it) burnings, but no fatalities. And hey, they send back money to Israel, so they're culpable. Canadian? No worries, my friend.
Every once in awhile we throw the Americans a bone (like our troops helping in their little "War Against Afghanistan" or "War against Islamic peoples" or whatever they're calling it these days), but that's just because we're nice fellows.
Last time in 1975 they had American support, but looks like they decided to go it alone this time.
The wealthy Noam Chomskys of the world run around saying it is somehow YOUR fault that those dirt poor Kuwaitis are poor.
The original poster didn't say that at all. And besides, Kuwait is a very, very rich country. If you think that lower class Kuwaiti's are living a miserable, poverty-stricken existance, than well - donate to the Christian Charity Fund today! That way, you can placate your delusions of cultural superiority.
But your money would go a hell of a lot farther there than it does in the US.
I've lived in small towns and my mother owns vast tracts of land.
It sucks.
Stick with the city. It's where human life is. I know I am.
The CIA was created to overthrow the government of the one and only Iran.
Which they succeeded in, admirably, for a few decades at least... until Persians reclaimed their country from the Great Satan.
The religious fervor of the clerics can be seen as a barrier between democracy and tyranny. It's a sad by-product that there are many bad laws and bad penalties in Iran.
The alternative (American backed dictatorship) is far worse.
See: Saudi Arabia
There's a reason Lady Liberty is smoking a cigarette and looking mighty bulemic
So when' the Java runtime coming out for it? That'll run faster than frost pist, I'm sure.
yeah, poisioning yourself with fucking alcohol seems like a much better Idea.
Well fuck, why not place a placard on your forehead that says "I am a fucking loser and no girl would ever share a pint of beer with me, let alone fuck me."
I mean, who do open sores fools think they're fooling?
So does your momma. BSD wishes it was Solaris.
And Falcon 3 (ok that was a different company, but still).
Is you learn how to write in English. You've responded to two of my posts with some garbled excuse for paragraphs and sentences.
Try to go there and put yourself up for candidacy
As it happens, there's a romantic side to me that would love to do that very same thing - but definately not "preaching western values and questioning (the) role of Islam," since I find western values to be incredibly chauvenistic (sp) and dehumanizing. When in Persia, you do as the Persians.
And certainly, in a country like the United States, any candidate who was not Christian would not stand a chance in hell of being elected to a position of any significant power. But that's the flip side of the coin, isn't it?
Bin Ladin ISN'T killing to encourage democracy in the Muslim world, Iran or elsewhere.
Iran is already a democracy and Iranians hate the man (him being Sunni and all that), so that's the understatement of the century.
But I have news for you: the arabs have been war-crazy since long before US intervention in 1954.
You're a brilliant anthropologist, for sure, for sure. Top rate! You've discovered a proof that brown is white! Incredible.
All of those countries complain about us all the time, but their upper echelon is filthy rich off of the money we pay them for their black gold.
The second one of those "backwards" Middle Eastern countries tries to nationalize their oil industries, America makes sure they pay with blood and tears.
See the above post about Iran, which today no longer has an "upper elechon (which gets) filthy rich off of the money we pay them," and the US villianizes them to no end, simultaneously making their intentions for the region obvious (witness Suadi Arabia) and making them the laughing stock of Europe (any country that considers Iran even *near* the 'worst' of Middle Eastern countries is borked)
And the usage of plastic is of course very high (irrationally so), but that can be cut back as well. When's the last time you walked into a McDonald's and your hamburger was in a strofoam case?
It's amazing how many posts here are saying "Free our dependence? Hahaha, no way!" as if A)there are no other energy sources and B)We've been using oil for energy for the entirety of humanity's existance.
It's no wonder we support the oppression of the peoples of Saudi Arabia. We don't know any other way.
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It's just that, I can't help but be impressed by the categorization skills of scientists.
Does one of those links explain how the hell we got from "Say, this long strand of weakly held together goo looks interesting" to A thermophile (heat loving organism), thermus aquaticus, provided a polymerase?
I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you're selling it, you're selling it .