The main reason South and Central American animosity against US is the way US treated them for so long, like a bully. Since US has treated their neighbours south their border and beyond since 1823 (see Monroe Doctrine). After almost 200 years of heavy handed meddling, no wonder they don't want to take any more shit from US any more.
I believe Assange must answer to the rape charges properly, not with FUD but I like the way Ecuador is standing firm against the former and current bullies of the globe, UK and US.
Well, I, as a part of the the rest of the word, have a problem with your "rules of engagement" which leads to deaths of innocent people and children. Don't try to weasel out of it.
We are decent people and when we see a people in pain, in injury or distress, we stop and help them out. The last thing we want is some murderous pilot and his handlers deciding on killing us on a whim. The release of the "Collateral Murder" video was the right thing to do and shows to the rest of the world what a crooked military system America has. Bush even signed a law which would lead to the invasion of a friendly country (Holland) in case an American soldier was arrested and charged for war crimes. Go and google The Hague Invasion Act.
Do you really believe the complicated to use, easy to hack and manipulate machines are not according to plan? Even the larger countries in Europe handle voting with ballots with ease, no corruption or confusion but American politics system insist on it for a long, long time. The whole thing is rigged to make sure that certain parties are in power. Even after this the general incompetence level catches up and then they lose an election. Bush stole two elections and only the first one raised some eyebrows in the rest of the world.
Why bother when it is not necessary. Ground-based scopes can do visual band perfectly fine. IR and UV have to be outside the atmosphere apart from some very narrow windows. Saying that, JWST costs too much and not worth it. We would have got a lot more science out of a couple of smaller IR scopes and loads of ground based stuff where it's multiple magnitudes of order cheaper and they're shutting left and right because there's no money left.
Assange is Wikileak's best enemy. The Guardian did not leak the key. Wikileaks was signing multiple files using the same key. You're supposed to use the key once for Mitra's sake! See here and here
Again if Assange wasn't being an asshole with various girls, he would have never ended up in this extradition scenario.
Wikileaks should be forked and Assange should answer to the charges. If he is not guilty as claimed, excellent. All of that "but he is not charged with anything" bullshit is just misinformation (fnord) and not understanding how an other country's due process works.
When you look at the typical response the police gives to a typical house/office break for the rest of us (a shrug and you never hear from the pigs ever again), this only shows how corrupt the US police are and what lengths they will go to keep their masters happy.
European steel industry is dead. The cheal fuel (coal) has mainly run out and the remaining bits are too expensive and the workforce expects decent pay & health and safety standards.
Well, if only that's how the economy actually worked. If you apply a tariff on such imports, the producers will cut even more corners to reduce the cost to bring the price down so that even with the tariff, it's market price is at least the same as your locally produced one. To compete, your local producers will start cutting corners in pollution control and then what?
If it damages the environment (global climate change is a fact, it's validity hasn't been in discussion in scientific circles for over a decade apart from uninformed twats opposing it), it is pollution.
The easiest of method of cutting the CO2 output of a single person is getting rid of the commute altogether.
The technology has advanced enough to let almost all of us work from home. On the other hand, in almost all cases companies don't pay for the commuting costs, you do and the VPN hardware + software + bandwidth they have to dish out costs them money as opposed to nothing. In most cases the building has been already leased for X amount of years up front with a fix cost, you can't cut the electricity cost by reducing the lighting if there's even one person working in the floor, you might have to pay for the ADSL and a comfortable working area at home (in EU, there are laws governing this) and all of this costs money. Although I have a better desk and a better chair at home than I have at work, it would be my company's responsibility to make sure that rest of the people are not working on dangerous conditions.
Overall, when it becomes a burden to the capitalists, when it costs them money, they will oppose it and that is what's happening. Markets are really bad at decision making, they only make decisions on one way, cutting costs to the business owner, fuck the rest.
Most of the coal-fanciers ignore the fact that the ash spewed out contains more uranium than used in the nuclear plants and as a result more radioactive than your typical nuclear waste (although it must be said that it's significantly more diluted!).
It is a worldwide thing. Any place, any time but especially after the midnight and it gets better towards the later hours of the night (the sky above your patch of Earth starts sweeping the space in front of Earth's orbit at that time and you start to see more after midnight. Add an hour if you have summertime for the real midnight.
Mark 1 telescope is probably one of those things you must see before you die. Lovell's contributions to astronomy and science are hard to measure. Especially in early 40s and 50s all of this was cutting edge science. He is counted among the pioneers like Jansky,
Only 10 years ago they were so gung-ho and there were books about the New Roman Empire: Pax Americana. GW Shrub and his cronies were talking about staying in Iraq for hundreds of years.
It is very sobering to see how fast their downfall was and how they dragged the world economy with them.
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The main reason South and Central American animosity against US is the way US treated them for so long, like a bully. Since US has treated their neighbours south their border and beyond since 1823 (see Monroe Doctrine). After almost 200 years of heavy handed meddling, no wonder they don't want to take any more shit from US any more.
I believe Assange must answer to the rape charges properly, not with FUD but I like the way Ecuador is standing firm against the former and current bullies of the globe, UK and US.
Well, I, as a part of the the rest of the word, have a problem with your "rules of engagement" which leads to deaths of innocent people and children. Don't try to weasel out of it.
We are decent people and when we see a people in pain, in injury or distress, we stop and help them out. The last thing we want is some murderous pilot and his handlers deciding on killing us on a whim. The release of the "Collateral Murder" video was the right thing to do and shows to the rest of the world what a crooked military system America has. Bush even signed a law which would lead to the invasion of a friendly country (Holland) in case an American soldier was arrested and charged for war crimes. Go and google The Hague Invasion Act.
Do you really believe the complicated to use, easy to hack and manipulate machines are not according to plan? Even the larger countries in Europe handle voting with ballots with ease, no corruption or confusion but American politics system insist on it for a long, long time. The whole thing is rigged to make sure that certain parties are in power. Even after this the general incompetence level catches up and then they lose an election. Bush stole two elections and only the first one raised some eyebrows in the rest of the world.
Surely you should be blaming the cost of a war in a faraway country called Vietnam for the moon-shot cancellations?!
You can stop buying petrol from them right now. Oh wait, you can't, entire American economy depends on cheap oil from Arabia.
This explains American's love of Harleys. Goes fine in a straight line... First corner, not so much fun.
Why bother when it is not necessary. Ground-based scopes can do visual band perfectly fine. IR and UV have to be outside the atmosphere apart from some very narrow windows. Saying that, JWST costs too much and not worth it. We would have got a lot more science out of a couple of smaller IR scopes and loads of ground based stuff where it's multiple magnitudes of order cheaper and they're shutting left and right because there's no money left.
Eyebrows would be raised if US tried to pull that trick in UK.
Also probably the locals would steal the tyres off the choppers before they landed.
Assange is Wikileak's best enemy. The Guardian did not leak the key. Wikileaks was signing multiple files using the same key. You're supposed to use the key once for Mitra's sake! See here and here
Again if Assange wasn't being an asshole with various girls, he would have never ended up in this extradition scenario.
Wikileaks should be forked and Assange should answer to the charges. If he is not guilty as claimed, excellent. All of that "but he is not charged with anything" bullshit is just misinformation (fnord) and not understanding how an other country's due process works.
When you look at the typical response the police gives to a typical house/office break for the rest of us (a shrug and you never hear from the pigs ever again), this only shows how corrupt the US police are and what lengths they will go to keep their masters happy.
European steel industry is dead. The cheal fuel (coal) has mainly run out and the remaining bits are too expensive and the workforce expects decent pay & health and safety standards.
Well, if only that's how the economy actually worked. If you apply a tariff on such imports, the producers will cut even more corners to reduce the cost to bring the price down so that even with the tariff, it's market price is at least the same as your locally produced one. To compete, your local producers will start cutting corners in pollution control and then what?
If it damages the environment (global climate change is a fact, it's validity hasn't been in discussion in scientific circles for over a decade apart from uninformed twats opposing it), it is pollution.
The easiest of method of cutting the CO2 output of a single person is getting rid of the commute altogether.
The technology has advanced enough to let almost all of us work from home. On the other hand, in almost all cases companies don't pay for the commuting costs, you do and the VPN hardware + software + bandwidth they have to dish out costs them money as opposed to nothing. In most cases the building has been already leased for X amount of years up front with a fix cost, you can't cut the electricity cost by reducing the lighting if there's even one person working in the floor, you might have to pay for the ADSL and a comfortable working area at home (in EU, there are laws governing this) and all of this costs money. Although I have a better desk and a better chair at home than I have at work, it would be my company's responsibility to make sure that rest of the people are not working on dangerous conditions.
Overall, when it becomes a burden to the capitalists, when it costs them money, they will oppose it and that is what's happening. Markets are really bad at decision making, they only make decisions on one way, cutting costs to the business owner, fuck the rest.
What about burning people? I'm sure I'll go off like a bornfire.
Most of the coal-fanciers ignore the fact that the ash spewed out contains more uranium than used in the nuclear plants and as a result more radioactive than your typical nuclear waste (although it must be said that it's significantly more diluted!).
Not all gas turbines are equal. Can you say a 125cc single cylinder motorbike engine can push your Hummer around at the same performance?
When your drinking water is polluted and gets poisonous, I count that as not safe.
At least he's not using FreeBSD, Apache, PostgreSQL and PHP...
This law they quote was created as a reaction to that shooting. Get your facts right.
Don't forget Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers... That was a fun book making fun of everything under the sun!
It is a worldwide thing. Any place, any time but especially after the midnight and it gets better towards the later hours of the night (the sky above your patch of Earth starts sweeping the space in front of Earth's orbit at that time and you start to see more after midnight. Add an hour if you have summertime for the real midnight.
Mark 1 telescope is probably one of those things you must see before you die. Lovell's contributions to astronomy and science are hard to measure. Especially in early 40s and 50s all of this was cutting edge science. He is counted among the pioneers like Jansky,
Only 10 years ago they were so gung-ho and there were books about the New Roman Empire: Pax Americana.
GW Shrub and his cronies were talking about staying in Iraq for hundreds of years.
It is very sobering to see how fast their downfall was and how they dragged the world economy with them.
Oh, by the way, is slavery OK? Baby Jesus says so...
"Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ."(Ephesians 6:5-9)