The problem with the US is those rural areas which provide much of the big cities livelihood like growing corn to make cheese or mining coal for instance. Now in Europe the rural areas have mostly disappeared (there are a few left) that make real wine and cheese and Germany doesn't care to put an urban area close to where they mine coal. In the US our best coal is in the mountains along with a bunch of gun nuts, moon shiners, and dope growers.
Now do you see the difference. Switzerland is in a thorny location. They could stay neutral during WWII because of those mountains yet it occupies a much it is right between all the important stuff. Their banking policies have also helped them enormously. Europe has few areas like this. The US is filled with this stuff in the middle because of those Great Lakes. The terrain over here is much harsher like the Rocky Mountains and Alaska. All of our people came from Europe to start with because they had nothing and here they had a small chance to have something. So while we may be on the decline, we still have a few more cards to play.
That says it all. I think it's just a matter of scale for it to be viable and Mr. Taxpayer and Uncle Sam ain't seeing eye to eye right now. So as usual more roads will be built. I hear China is doing that as fast as they can too.
What the hell, where you going to get all that corn? Yeah, go ahead and keep draining the Midwest of their water to grow it with. Those aquifers wouldn't last long, plus with planes, they really pollute.
--Trains are safer than ships on the open ocean.--
Links please, remember piracy in and around Somalia doesn't count. There are things that can bring down trains like a suddenly active volcano for instance. Now shipping is dangerous in dangerous places. Why would you not have the same problem with the Chinese have to build through Iran, Pakistan, or some other nasty places if they go for the southbound India route which is the shortest way in.
Taxis, you have to be joking. Now that's one expensive trip, but now maybe they could build just one above ground. I hear that could be cheaper. Just remove the taxi lines and replace with trains. Easy as pie.
Life is a little harder over there and their population wants a middle class and they are working their butts off to have it. They are about where we were in the 1960's. They and India are on the rise. The US is in decline and Europe is the wild card.
Yeah, remember all those old Bond films like Goldfinger? Lots of Chinese bad guys. Now they don't have to destroy Fort Knox. There isn't anything in that building anymore but a bunch of old used monitors.
Stalingrad 1942. Germany went the other direction ever since that point in history. When Germany took France and Norway plus they also traded heavily with the neutral countries like Sweden and Switzerland. Man, 1941 was the year that Germany's combat power increased significantly they had control of France and all of the low countries. Even the Germans didn't think they could just walk right past the French whose army was very static an spread out. Why did they even wait for 1940? The French could have practically waltzed right through Germany while they were busy with Poland.
CIA experiments with mind control using LSD amongst other terrible measures on thousands of US citizens without their consent. Came to an end in 1968 when Bonanza was first shown in color on TV. CIA now has their mind control.
"Before Pearl Harbor, Japan had invaded China, Mongolia and parts of the USSR. Japan, having no natural resources of their own yet requiring them for its military action, needed to acquire them from other nations."
How they acquired those resources is where the trouble was. They could have traded for them as they now do.
Trade is good. Trade wars are not. They lead to real wars. Hell in WWII the Nazi's and the Japs could have been stopped by 1940 if not for the Great Depression. France was already in defeat before the fight even started. They should have went straight through Germany at the point they were busy with Poland. In 1939 Germany's combat power was far more limited than just France alone. You know the UK didn't have as bad a time during the Great Depression because of the devaluation of the Pound Sterling. Our combat power was piss poor during the 30's.
Don't think China isn't impressive in this area if only because of size alone.
Actually using those methods you mentioned can have more long term costs for short term gain, but they are improving in many areas. And speaking about fair wages, I don't think that is limited to China?
If you don't know the difference, really I can't tell you at this point. MagicJack is Eviiiiil and Google is gooood. Now do you see, no? I didn't think so.
Yeah, it looks like you would have to be a real VOIP company. People around here have bought them to run off of dial up. I'm not kidding either. It's a piece of crap hardware wise too.
This is a legitimate question. Yeah, probably, most other sites would have just jerked the article when warned. But, so what. Really I just mostly look at their pictures so/. must be in cahoots.
Yeah, the lawyers were working for them not the other way around. Maybe just maybe the lawyers will now get pissed at them over that comment and that would be real cool to see.
Damn you are so right, but for Magic Jack it's just a cost of quelling free speech. They will probably keep doing this to blogging sites, especially those that aren't as big as Boing Boing. In most other states you can't sue them back either. I think that might be a good idea anytime someone looses a civil suit. Make them pay cost if their was no reasonable way they could win period in all the states in all cases.
I mean is $50,000 really enough to slow them up? They could stand that all day long and some smaller sites may not last it out that long. What a shame.
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The problem with the US is those rural areas which provide much of the big cities livelihood like growing corn to make cheese or mining coal for instance. Now in Europe the rural areas have mostly disappeared (there are a few left) that make real wine and cheese and Germany doesn't care to put an urban area close to where they mine coal. In the US our best coal is in the mountains along with a bunch of gun nuts, moon shiners, and dope growers.
Now do you see the difference. Switzerland is in a thorny location. They could stay neutral during WWII because of those mountains yet it occupies a much it is right between all the important stuff. Their banking policies have also helped them enormously. Europe has few areas like this. The US is filled with this stuff in the middle because of those Great Lakes. The terrain over here is much harsher like the Rocky Mountains and Alaska. All of our people came from Europe to start with because they had nothing and here they had a small chance to have something. So while we may be on the decline, we still have a few more cards to play.
That says it all. I think it's just a matter of scale for it to be viable and Mr. Taxpayer and Uncle Sam ain't seeing eye to eye right now. So as usual more roads will be built. I hear China is doing that as fast as they can too.
What the hell, where you going to get all that corn? Yeah, go ahead and keep draining the Midwest of their water to grow it with. Those aquifers wouldn't last long, plus with planes, they really pollute.
--Trains are safer than ships on the open ocean.--
Links please, remember piracy in and around Somalia doesn't count. There are things that can bring down trains like a suddenly active volcano for instance. Now shipping is dangerous in dangerous places. Why would you not have the same problem with the Chinese have to build through Iran, Pakistan, or some other nasty places if they go for the southbound India route which is the shortest way in.
Or...troops?
Taxis, you have to be joking. Now that's one expensive trip, but now maybe they could build just one above ground. I hear that could be cheaper. Just remove the taxi lines and replace with trains. Easy as pie.
Let's get some Chinese labor and build for 18 million instead of 18 billion that the Irish are charging now.
Life is a little harder over there and their population wants a middle class and they are working their butts off to have it. They are about where we were in the 1960's. They and India are on the rise. The US is in decline and Europe is the wild card.
We'll I read that, but that still leaves the Middle East. India would be likely as they are almost as powerful now.
Yeah, remember all those old Bond films like Goldfinger? Lots of Chinese bad guys. Now they don't have to destroy Fort Knox. There isn't anything in that building anymore but a bunch of old used monitors.
Probably, Norway.
Stalingrad 1942. Germany went the other direction ever since that point in history. When Germany took France and Norway plus they also traded heavily with the neutral countries like Sweden and Switzerland. Man, 1941 was the year that Germany's combat power increased significantly they had control of France and all of the low countries. Even the Germans didn't think they could just walk right past the French whose army was very static an spread out. Why did they even wait for 1940? The French could have practically waltzed right through Germany while they were busy with Poland.
Trading without paying cash. Cool, avoids so much paperwork and taxes. Damn I've got some raw materials they might want and hell I need some rice.
Of course they are communist. It's one form of religion and they seek more converts.
1950 something until 1968
CIA experiments with mind control using LSD amongst other terrible measures on thousands of US citizens without their consent. Came to an end in 1968 when Bonanza was first shown in color on TV. CIA now has their mind control.
Is this sarcasm?
"Before Pearl Harbor, Japan had invaded China, Mongolia and parts of the USSR. Japan, having no natural resources of their own yet requiring them for its military action, needed to acquire them from other nations."
How they acquired those resources is where the trouble was. They could have traded for them as they now do.
Trade is good. Trade wars are not. They lead to real wars. Hell in WWII the Nazi's and the Japs could have been stopped by 1940 if not for the Great Depression. France was already in defeat before the fight even started. They should have went straight through Germany at the point they were busy with Poland. In 1939 Germany's combat power was far more limited than just France alone. You know the UK didn't have as bad a time during the Great Depression because of the devaluation of the Pound Sterling. Our combat power was piss poor during the 30's.
Don't think China isn't impressive in this area if only because of size alone.
Actually using those methods you mentioned can have more long term costs for short term gain, but they are improving in many areas. And speaking about fair wages, I don't think that is limited to China?
I think if you can survive without eating then maybe I would see your point, otherwise I hope it's just a joke that I don't get.
No, no artificial stupidity is where the real change is at.
If you don't know the difference, really I can't tell you at this point. MagicJack is Eviiiiil and Google is gooood. Now do you see, no? I didn't think so.
Yeah, it looks like you would have to be a real VOIP company. People around here have bought them to run off of dial up. I'm not kidding either. It's a piece of crap hardware wise too.
This is a legitimate question. Yeah, probably, most other sites would have just jerked the article when warned. But, so what. Really I just mostly look at their pictures so /. must be in cahoots.
Yeah, the lawyers were working for them not the other way around. Maybe just maybe the lawyers will now get pissed at them over that comment and that would be real cool to see.
Damn you are so right, but for Magic Jack it's just a cost of quelling free speech. They will probably keep doing this to blogging sites, especially those that aren't as big as Boing Boing. In most other states you can't sue them back either. I think that might be a good idea anytime someone looses a civil suit. Make them pay cost if their was no reasonable way they could win period in all the states in all cases.
I mean is $50,000 really enough to slow them up? They could stand that all day long and some smaller sites may not last it out that long. What a shame.