First of all, I'm not European, I'm Canadian (in case you don't know, that's the country that's on top of yours - if you keep going north, you can't miss us). Second of all, Bush made his money as an oil man, and I'm willing to bet that he is sitll an oil man, and will always be an oil man, so talking about Bush and his deceptive policies about why he should invade other countries with massive amounts of oil is DIRECTLY on topic about the depletion of the oil reserves in the world.
I'm proud to be a Canadian. I think it's sad that you have to attack my character in order to try and make a point (or one-upmanship if you will). Furthermore, in case you don't know the history of the rest of the world (since I have an idea of what you school system is like), Canadians were involved in the Second World War long before the Americans were in it, and the only reason why you guys got involved was Pearl Harbor. Also, Nazi is not a language, it was a political party in Germany in the early 1900 (but as an American, I wouldn't expect you to know this).
The only reason why the American president has a "stranglehold on the world" is simply becuase they have the greatest military army in the world. No other country (other than possibly Britain) has a military budget even comprimable to that of the U.S. I'm willing to bet that the think-folk in Washington were sitting around one day going "Man, we spend 40 quad-billion dollars a year on the military. How can we justify that to the American people?" "Hey! Let's start a war!!" "Hey, great idea! Dad, you got anybody you want offed?" "Sure son...you know who, this time, let's get him for sure!" "But wait, we don't really have a reason to go after them, besides their oil, and the People won't like that idea." "Well, I do hear that they have some major Weapons of Mass Destruction..."
The U.S. was so fearful of the Soviets in the cold war (Commies, Commies Everywhere!!) that they felt it necessary to instill such a fearfulness in its population so that they would only support more and more military spending. The only problem with that is, the rest of the world curtailed its spending on the military (prolly cuz they couldn't affort it) while the U.S. just kept on blaring ahead. I don't think you kick ass at all. Unless you call bullying the rest of the world into a war that nobody but the Presidente of the good ol' Texas shoot-em-ups really wanted, kickin ass. If anything, YOU sound like that poor little boy who had a social problem growing up and now feel like it's your moral duty to act it out on the rest of the world. Yay...you go girl!
Finally, that movie you pointed me at only reinforces what I believe in Michael Moore. If he ends up taking out Bush because of that movie he made, I'll only be too glad, since I will consider his work done. You know? Maybe he does have a secondary agenda towards wanting to remove Bush from office, and that's why he made the film and is releasing it in an election year. Doesn't sound any worse than invading a foreign country to find "WMD" that don't exist. Talk about a second, hidden agenda.
Go ahead and reply if you want. I'm not being dragged down into your depth to have a war about what country is better or not. Your country has fucked up values, believes only in money and self-worth, and don't give 2 shits about anyone else but yourself. I'm willing to wager that I know a hell of a lot more about the U.S. (and the rest of the world for that matter) than you know about anything outside your state. Obviously you qualify to be the driver of the handbasket on it's journey to hell...
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Awww...lookee like the poo widdle amewicans are starting to pay more for gas. Boo freakin hoo! Hey: here's a solution: Why don't you fools vote Bush in for another 4 years, so he can invade other countries that provide oil (talk about biting the hand that feeds you) so he and his Texas buddies can keep the price of a barrel of oil high, and try and justify it on fictional, manufactured "evidence". That way, he and his buddies can continue to be super rich can maintain a stranglehold on the world. Then you Americans can continue to think he's the bestest president EVER, while the rest of the world angishes at his complete and udder stupidity. I can't wait for Moore's next film to come out - talk about timing!!
TO HELL!!! Hey, this handbasket looks like it'll be mighty fine transportation to get us there!!
I totally disagree. First off, the moon could be set up as a base to launch more investigative, futher expeditions into our solar system. (prolly for cheaper, cuz it wouldn't cost as much to blast off from the moon, due to lower gravity) Second of all, perhaps there will be a different set of minerals up there that we could start mining and build stronger, yet lighter materials. Remember, we're only on earth here, and what we see is only a product of what our earth can perform. Imagine all those other planets/celestial objects out there that are constantly forming minerals/chemicals that are even beyond our wildest dreams!!
I'm glad that MIT is getting on board to promote online learning. I work at the Centre for e-Learning at the University of Ottawa, and to us, this is exciting news. Why, you might ask?
Well recently, there has been more and more attention being given to things called Learning Objects and Learning Object Repositories.
Basically, what MIT is doing, is placing a bunch of Learning Objects online. (A learning object can be considered to be an entire course, among other things...I won't get into it here, but rest assured there's a huge initiative behind this whole Learning Object thing in the educative and private community/industry)
Now imagine for a minute if an individual were to take all the learning objects in the world (i.e. all the courses offered by all the universities and colleges and other schools, as well as some from private industry, who has also been researching and using Learning Objects for years) and store them in some massive database. Essentially what you've created is a Learning Object Repository.
The reason for such excitement is any of that material in the Repository can be extracted and repurposed elsewhere (i.e. in helping another new prof find new or different ways of teaching Biology for instance).
This is what I believe the future of online learing will get to, and MIT is aiding in getting there. I also think that's why they called their courseware OpenCourseWare - so that other users may come in and repurpose the material for others to use. It's kinda like open source software for education!!
That's the title of a really good book by Isaac Asimov. Starts out nice and light as a read adn gradually accelerates to really advanced topics, as its 3 books in 1. You could either do that or just read Newton's Principa Mathematica...!!!
This is from the linux for playstation website:
US: Linux (for Playstation 2) Kit temporarily unavailable
The Linux kit will be unavailable for order in North America while the e-commerce function of playstation.com is reorganized. It will be at least a couple of weeks, but kits will be available again through scea.com when the reorganization is complete. Thanks for your patience everyone.
Other territories are unaffected: ordering from Europe, New Zealand & Australia continues as before.
There ya go...hope this helps...
Yeah...costs about 200$$, but it's pretty damn worth it, you get a network adapter, 10G hard drive, 2 CDs with linux on it (1 might be linux and something else...don't recall), usb keyboard and mouse and maybe something else I'm missing... You can check out the pages here: Linux for Playstation . As far as I'm concerned, for the hardware you're getting, it's damn worth it. You'd prolly spend that much buying the individual pieces anyways!! I've wanted one as soon as it was released...gonna have to talk to someone about possible Christmas gifts!!;)
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First of all, I'm not European, I'm Canadian (in case you don't know, that's the country that's on top of yours - if you keep going north, you can't miss us). Second of all, Bush made his money as an oil man, and I'm willing to bet that he is sitll an oil man, and will always be an oil man, so talking about Bush and his deceptive policies about why he should invade other countries with massive amounts of oil is DIRECTLY on topic about the depletion of the oil reserves in the world.
I'm proud to be a Canadian. I think it's sad that you have to attack my character in order to try and make a point (or one-upmanship if you will). Furthermore, in case you don't know the history of the rest of the world (since I have an idea of what you school system is like), Canadians were involved in the Second World War long before the Americans were in it, and the only reason why you guys got involved was Pearl Harbor. Also, Nazi is not a language, it was a political party in Germany in the early 1900 (but as an American, I wouldn't expect you to know this).
The only reason why the American president has a "stranglehold on the world" is simply becuase they have the greatest military army in the world. No other country (other than possibly Britain) has a military budget even comprimable to that of the U.S. I'm willing to bet that the think-folk in Washington were sitting around one day going "Man, we spend 40 quad-billion dollars a year on the military. How can we justify that to the American people?" "Hey! Let's start a war!!" "Hey, great idea! Dad, you got anybody you want offed?" "Sure son...you know who, this time, let's get him for sure!" "But wait, we don't really have a reason to go after them, besides their oil, and the People won't like that idea." "Well, I do hear that they have some major Weapons of Mass Destruction..."
The U.S. was so fearful of the Soviets in the cold war (Commies, Commies Everywhere!!) that they felt it necessary to instill such a fearfulness in its population so that they would only support more and more military spending. The only problem with that is, the rest of the world curtailed its spending on the military (prolly cuz they couldn't affort it) while the U.S. just kept on blaring ahead. I don't think you kick ass at all. Unless you call bullying the rest of the world into a war that nobody but the Presidente of the good ol' Texas shoot-em-ups really wanted, kickin ass. If anything, YOU sound like that poor little boy who had a social problem growing up and now feel like it's your moral duty to act it out on the rest of the world. Yay...you go girl!
Finally, that movie you pointed me at only reinforces what I believe in Michael Moore. If he ends up taking out Bush because of that movie he made, I'll only be too glad, since I will consider his work done. You know? Maybe he does have a secondary agenda towards wanting to remove Bush from office, and that's why he made the film and is releasing it in an election year. Doesn't sound any worse than invading a foreign country to find "WMD" that don't exist. Talk about a second, hidden agenda.
Go ahead and reply if you want. I'm not being dragged down into your depth to have a war about what country is better or not. Your country has fucked up values, believes only in money and self-worth, and don't give 2 shits about anyone else but yourself. I'm willing to wager that I know a hell of a lot more about the U.S. (and the rest of the world for that matter) than you know about anything outside your state. Obviously you qualify to be the driver of the handbasket on it's journey to hell...
Awww...lookee like the poo widdle amewicans are starting to pay more for gas. Boo freakin hoo! Hey: here's a solution: Why don't you fools vote Bush in for another 4 years, so he can invade other countries that provide oil (talk about biting the hand that feeds you) so he and his Texas buddies can keep the price of a barrel of oil high, and try and justify it on fictional, manufactured "evidence". That way, he and his buddies can continue to be super rich can maintain a stranglehold on the world. Then you Americans can continue to think he's the bestest president EVER, while the rest of the world angishes at his complete and udder stupidity. I can't wait for Moore's next film to come out - talk about timing!! TO HELL!!! Hey, this handbasket looks like it'll be mighty fine transportation to get us there!!
I totally disagree. First off, the moon could be set up as a base to launch more investigative, futher expeditions into our solar system. (prolly for cheaper, cuz it wouldn't cost as much to blast off from the moon, due to lower gravity) Second of all, perhaps there will be a different set of minerals up there that we could start mining and build stronger, yet lighter materials. Remember, we're only on earth here, and what we see is only a product of what our earth can perform. Imagine all those other planets/celestial objects out there that are constantly forming minerals/chemicals that are even beyond our wildest dreams!!
Well recently, there has been more and more attention being given to things called Learning Objects and Learning Object Repositories.
Basically, what MIT is doing, is placing a bunch of Learning Objects online. (A learning object can be considered to be an entire course, among other things...I won't get into it here, but rest assured there's a huge initiative behind this whole Learning Object thing in the educative and private community/industry)
Now imagine for a minute if an individual were to take all the learning objects in the world (i.e. all the courses offered by all the universities and colleges and other schools, as well as some from private industry, who has also been researching and using Learning Objects for years) and store them in some massive database. Essentially what you've created is a Learning Object Repository.
The reason for such excitement is any of that material in the Repository can be extracted and repurposed elsewhere (i.e. in helping another new prof find new or different ways of teaching Biology for instance).
This is what I believe the future of online learing will get to, and MIT is aiding in getting there. I also think that's why they called their courseware OpenCourseWare - so that other users may come in and repurpose the material for others to use. It's kinda like open source software for education!!
That's the title of a really good book by Isaac Asimov. Starts out nice and light as a read adn gradually accelerates to really advanced topics, as its 3 books in 1. You could either do that or just read Newton's Principa Mathematica...!!!
This is from the linux for playstation website: US: Linux (for Playstation 2) Kit temporarily unavailable The Linux kit will be unavailable for order in North America while the e-commerce function of playstation.com is reorganized. It will be at least a couple of weeks, but kits will be available again through scea.com when the reorganization is complete. Thanks for your patience everyone. Other territories are unaffected: ordering from Europe, New Zealand & Australia continues as before. There ya go...hope this helps...
Yeah...costs about 200$$, but it's pretty damn worth it, you get a network adapter, 10G hard drive, 2 CDs with linux on it (1 might be linux and something else...don't recall), usb keyboard and mouse and maybe something else I'm missing... You can check out the pages here: Linux for Playstation . As far as I'm concerned, for the hardware you're getting, it's damn worth it. You'd prolly spend that much buying the individual pieces anyways!! I've wanted one as soon as it was released...gonna have to talk to someone about possible Christmas gifts!! ;)