Such statements strengthen my picture of arrogance and racism being a not so small part of the japanese culture.
A roommate's uncle is married to a japanese woman. He is from Tunesia, they live in France. They hardly go to Japan, as nearly her whole family addresses her only as "the slut", simply because she dared to marry a foreigner!
The minute 6 billion people all convince themselves of a single dogmatic ideal... we're boned.
As long as this ideal is to live and let live together in peace, I'm perfectly ok with it. If it were like those in nazi Germany, I'd run for the next spaceship or suicide booth.
The only thing stopping Afghanistan and Iraq from having democracy and freedom is themselves. It's nice to blame everything on Americans, but if the Americans all one day got up and left Iraq, do you honestly think that it'd become a nice and peaceful country, with the Shites and the Sunnis and the Kurds all getting along with each other, and not bombing and shooting each other?
I'm not the idiot who thinks that all would be milk and honey there.
But that simply does not matter because what matters is that the USA invaded those two countries against international law under the false pretenses of self defense and bringing freedom to the people.
You might not agree with the methods America has used to overthrow the tyrannical governments of Iraq and Afghanistan,
I would disagree with the methods even if the motives really were to help the people in Iraq and Afghanistan.
but I don't see other countries lining up to do a better job.
"Video games don't affect kids. If Pac-Man affected us as kids we'd all be walking around in dark rooms eating magic pills while listening to repetitive electronic music." -Karen Price, Nintendo Representative
Go, serve yourself.:-) "Anti-nationalist" would be more precise, as nations are a really idiotic thing that prevent humankind from working together instead of nations against each other.
In the future all foreigners will also be Americans.
Because you have brought us freedom and democracy like in Afghanistan or Iraq? No, thanks, I prefer the real things (as far as I still have them here).
Aliens will all speak English.
Why, TV shows me that they know German already?
As to the opening one shouldnt forget that most of the space stuff has been done by Russians and Americans. No moonshots from France!
Think a little bit about the visions Roddenberry based his Star Trek universe on, and you'll know that showing conquerors and all this US-only-gloryfing stuff in the opening do not match with them at all.
The opening credits are a pathetic US-centristic horror, that must have been made by people who did not have the slightest clue of Roddenberry's universe.
Does that mean that virtually every citizen gave them the permission to collect data about them, or that it is really legal for a company in the USA to collect personal data about people without their consent or even knowledge?
And what do they do with this data, they can't sell it, or what?
And how can one of those "virtually every citizen"s get all this data deleted when he wants?
By killing them faster than letting them starve to death? Or by not even letting them be born (forced abortions, even in the last month(!), or murdering the newborn is common practice in China)?
That does not make all his other "evil" deeds undone. And I am sure that the only reason he has not done it yet is that this is the one thing he won't come through with.
You just need a critical mass of U238, conventional explosives and a neutron source. Split the U238 in two parts, assemble it in a way that they'll be pushed together again by the conv. explosion, which is also the right point in time to start pumping neutrons in the U238. Voila!
Okay...You're *totally* missing the point. In fact, you're arguing my point. What part of this don't you understand?
What part of "thinking you needn't ask is arrogant and can get you to jail" and "the answer is always no until stated otherwise, which means you always have to ask" don't you understand?
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LMAO, you don't really believe that there is anyone who wouldn't FastForward them?
Such statements strengthen my picture of arrogance and racism being a not so small part of the japanese culture.
A roommate's uncle is married to a japanese woman. He is from Tunesia, they live in France. They hardly go to Japan, as nearly her whole family addresses her only as "the slut", simply because she dared to marry a foreigner!
The minute 6 billion people all convince themselves of a single dogmatic ideal... we're boned.
As long as this ideal is to live and let live together in peace, I'm perfectly ok with it. If it were like those in nazi Germany, I'd run for the next spaceship or suicide booth.
The only thing stopping Afghanistan and Iraq from having democracy and freedom is themselves. It's nice to blame everything on Americans, but if the Americans all one day got up and left Iraq, do you honestly think that it'd become a nice and peaceful country, with the Shites and the Sunnis and the Kurds all getting along with each other, and not bombing and shooting each other?
I'm not the idiot who thinks that all would be milk and honey there.
But that simply does not matter because what matters is that the USA invaded those two countries against international law under the false pretenses of self defense and bringing freedom to the people.
You might not agree with the methods America has used to overthrow the tyrannical governments of Iraq and Afghanistan,
I would disagree with the methods even if the motives really were to help the people in Iraq and Afghanistan.
but I don't see other countries lining up to do a better job.
Just realize that it is not your job!
"Video games don't affect kids. If Pac-Man affected us as kids we'd all be walking around in dark rooms eating magic pills while listening to repetitive electronic music." -Karen Price, Nintendo Representative
I'm wondering why passwords have gone out of style?
Noone of the marketing guys had a good idea how to sell this as something new yet. Just wait some more time.
The US and USSR even have different origins for their rocketry - hardly the Germans.
Please inform yourself about Wernher von Braun.
F* you internationalist.
:-) "Anti-nationalist" would be more precise, as nations are a really idiotic thing that prevent humankind from working together instead of nations against each other.
Go, serve yourself.
In the future all foreigners will also be Americans.
Because you have brought us freedom and democracy like in Afghanistan or Iraq? No, thanks, I prefer the real things (as far as I still have them here).
Aliens will all speak English.
Why, TV shows me that they know German already?
As to the opening one shouldnt forget that most of the space stuff has been done by Russians and Americans. No moonshots from France!
Think a little bit about the visions Roddenberry based his Star Trek universe on, and you'll know that showing conquerors and all this US-only-gloryfing stuff in the opening do not match with them at all.
Congrats, you are one of the people who precisely groked what is so wrong with ENT!
It is not that bad with closed eyes. :-)
The opening credits are a pathetic US-centristic horror, that must have been made by people who did not have the slightest clue of Roddenberry's universe.
"We think Star Trek and especially its latest incarnation, Enterprise is the kind of TV that should be aired more often."
I agree that I'd like to see more Star Trek and alikes in TV. But why on earth should it be "especially" the worst of all the five ST series?
If only those 3 millions would be used to create a sixth series that ties up to the mark TNG has set, instead of wasting them on the ENT crap.
People waving the skull and crossbones coming to your home, taking away your TV?
Or movies like Peter Pan?
Does that mean that virtually every citizen gave them the permission to collect data about them, or that it is really legal for a company in the USA to collect personal data about people without their consent or even knowledge?
And what do they do with this data, they can't sell it, or what?
And how can one of those "virtually every citizen"s get all this data deleted when he wants?
Good thing that I am neither inside this "homeland" nor it's citizen. I can care a fsck about them.
It's not like you can just buy U238 at a 7-11 alongside the mountain dew.
I meant U-235, and, yes, I don't believe that it's a 7-11 who is selling this stuff in Russia.
Distributing something like heroin is hardly a "victimless crime"
As there is no victim, it can't be anything else.
Drug victims are their own victims and the society's victims, not the victims of the people who sold them the drugs.
If I kill myself with the legal drug alcohol, nobody blames the store that sold me the booze.
What dog?
By killing them faster than letting them starve to death? Or by not even letting them be born (forced abortions, even in the last month(!), or murdering the newborn is common practice in China)?
If any regime on Earth really deserves to be invaded and dismantled by the civilized nations of the world it is North Korea.
Which rules out the USA. (Not only)
It is impossible for normal people to imagine the misery of people living there...
Get your imaginations at Guantanamo.
Civilized world should do something about it if it is to be worthy that term.
As they should something about their biggest threat: the current regime in the USA.
He's not dropping 'the bomb' on anyone.
That does not make all his other "evil" deeds undone. And I am sure that the only reason he has not done it yet is that this is the one thing he won't come through with.
Two questions always come up in my mind:
WhoTF said that it is ok for the USA to have nukes but not ok for Iraq, NK or else? And WhoTF asked the USA to enforce this?
No one? Then whyTF do the USA dare to act like they had anything to say to anyone outside their own borders?
I wish China would sort this mess out.
Do you really want to exchange one poor idiot of devil (Kim) against a horde of mighty devils (KP of China)?
You don't realize we had to invade Iraq just so that it would not become another North Korea?
No, because you can only realize something that is real. But all those reasons your regime brought up are just plain lies.
If creating nuclear weapons were that easy
It is easy!
You just need a critical mass of U238, conventional explosives and a neutron source. Split the U238 in two parts, assemble it in a way that they'll be pushed together again by the conv. explosion, which is also the right point in time to start pumping neutrons in the U238. Voila!
Okay...You're *totally* missing the point. In fact, you're arguing my point. What part of this don't you understand?
What part of "thinking you needn't ask is arrogant and can get you to jail" and "the answer is always no until stated otherwise, which means you always have to ask" don't you understand?