Yes, American is dependent on the Chinese economy. But the Chinese are more dependent on the American economy. Moreover, the entire world is more dependent on the American economy. If anything bad happens to the U.S. every country gets hurt bad. If something bad happens to the Chinese, it hurts everyone, but not quite as bad.
China would not "kick America's butt in both a ground war and a nuclear exchange". China has at most 18 ICBMs capable of reaching the continental United States. We have about 10,000 that could reach China, plus a quasi-functional missile defense system. Honestly, we wouldn't need to "win" a ground war. All we'd need to do is bomb all their electric plants, oil and gas pipelines, passes in and out of the country, and mine their harbors. Enforce a blockade and that's the end of that.
Russia and India would "have a fit" but wouldn't do a goddamn thing. Neither of them wants to voluntarily get involved in a nuclear war.
That's weird. I had never heard of the Trip Planner. I always used The RideGuide. Why, I wonder, would WMATA have two different ride planners on the same website? Good to know our DC tax dollars are hard at work.
I don't think he's talking about the technical underpinnings. I think he's talking about software design and human usability. After a certain point, it doesn't matter what's under the hood. I think that he feels OS X abandoned OS 9's user interface guidelines in exchange for superior technical underpinnings but inferior usability dressed up in eye candy.
Fair enough, and a good point. However, I feel like I ought to point out that the slave labor was only a secondary effect, a side benefit if you will, of the concentration camps. They were not created for the war effort (they were created for "racial purification"), but since they were there, they were used for the war effort.
Here, of course, are the best of the possible anagrams. The agenda of Bonhomie Snoutintroff is thus revealed:
EFF BRITISH MOON ONTO UN EFF BURNISH IT MOON TOON EFF BOORISH IT TOM NON UN EFF BOORISH TIT MOON NUN EFF HUBRIS I TOM NOON TON EFF HUBRIS MOTION NON TO EFF HUBRIS TIM NOON TOON EFF HUBRIS NOTION TOM NO EFF BIRTH I MOON NO SUN TO EFF BIRTH MOTION NOON US EFF BIRTH SIMON NOON OUT EFF BIRTH UNIONS MOON TO EFF THUMBS IN ONION ROOT EFF THUMBS NOTION ORION
I have to say, it's all becoming much clearer now. Lameness filter doesn't like caps, no it doesn't, the caps are really bad, it's like yelling, you see, it's rude, so rude, so lame to post things in caps. I wish I could just post this goddamn message without having to continually test the lameness filter to see if I can get through. I am so tired of this "feature".
Two of your examples are false analogies. The Nazis extermination of the Jews was not part of their war effort, if anything it was a diversion of resources from the war effort, driven by their paranoid racist ideology rather than by military calculus. The concentration camps do not count as fighting dirty in World War II--they were quite simply genocidal crimes against humanity. Saddam Hussein's gassing of the Kurds, likewise, was not part of a war effort. It was part of his paranoid racist dictatorial policy. It doesn't really count as fighting dirty, as he wasn't at war with the Kurds, and their gassing wasn't linked directly to a war effort against Iran, Kuwait, or the U.S. The gassing was simply a crime against humanity.
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor could certainly fit the definition of fighting dirty--that's certainly how it was portrayed. But a sneak attack is more or less legitimate, even though it's a crime against the peace and an attack on a non-aggressor. There's nothing especially dirty about it--not like using chemical weapons or torture or what-have-you.
Perhaps, but with all the historical disputed between the various Asian countries, is there any chance at all that they could agree on a common name or alphabet/script in which to put the TLD? Not a snowball's chance in hell.
The Japanese would want it one way. The South Koreans would call them imperialist. The Chinese would protest because the Japanese domain was militaristic and suggest their own domain. Taiwan would feel obligated to make its own suggestion. China would get pissed off. North Korea would interject with some bizarre non-sequitur. South East Asia would try to find a joint name but couldn't reconcile between the Buddhists, Catholics, and Muslims. India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan would blow each other up before agreeing on a common TLD. Central Asia doesn't know what the internet is. And the Arab countries would blame Israel for the disunity, while Israel took the U.S. position.
What is wrong with someone like me wanting to be able to compose an email in my native language, just because it's fun to use all those african proverbs or to even be able to advertise companies with native names (which include diacritical markings and so on) without having to code for each web browser.
You can already do those things. All modern browsers and OSes support unicode characters.
The problem is not emails or website text, it's URLs with non-english alphabet characters.
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pornography and gambling is one thing, instant messaging and blogging is another. one enriches your life, one destroys it, [respectively].
I couldn't agree more. Pornography and gambling lead to individuals with well-balanced moods and a little extra scratch for their pockets, while IMing and blogging lead to mental degeneration, illiteracy, rumormongering, and full-spectrum uselessness to society.
It's no worse than any other page on the internet. Something about this reeks of a double standard. If CNN had put up a bio page of him with that incorrect piece of information for three months, do you think he would have written an op-ed impugning CNN and the internet? Doubtful. He would have contacted CNN, told them what for, and had it removed. Which is exactly what he did with Wikipedia, except he also felt the need to whine about how helpless he is that he can't sue somebody. Moreover, he seems to have unrealistic standards about how accurate the internet is: any moron can pay $10 and put up a website saying this guy "was briefly suspected of being involved in the character assasination" of his friends. Wikipedia is no different from any other webpage out there, except that it can be corrected quicker in most cases.
I believe that passing the Acid test is the job of the Gecko hackers, not the Firefox hackers. Safari passes because their lead developer got a bug in his pants and decided to get 'er done, that's all. That being said, the Acid 2 test isn't really about what CSS features the browser supports, it's about how the browser handles poorly formed code. It's less of a priority to navigate bad code than it is to make sure that code works in the first place.
Richard Chesler: Is that your blood?
Narrator [Smoking a cigarette]: Some of it, yeah.
Richard Chesler: Take the rest of the day off. Come back with some clean clothes.
The great thing about wearing a suit is that no one every questions what you're doing. It's like, as long as you are wearing the suit and tie, you have an automatic aura of trust. Everyone assumes that you're a respectable, upstanding, responsible person just going about their business, and shouldn't be bothered. It's hilarious. People are more helpful and solicitous of you, they don't give you as much attitude, and they're willing to do favors for you that they normally wouldn't do for just average joes. That's why all these assholes in management get whatever they want. No one understands it, but it's at least 50% suit, and thew other 50% is just a confident attitude.
Get clothes hand tailored for you. You'll look ten times better than wearing poorly cut off the rack stuff. Also, it's not as expensive as you might think. If you live in a major city, you'll often see ads placed in the paper for tailors visiting from Hong Kong. They set up shop in a hotel room for two days, people come by and get their measurements taken, choose a fabric and a style, then a couple weeks later they get a package mailed from Hong Kong with their hand tailored clothes. I bought two hand tailored suits for $900 (for comparison, one off-the-rack Polo Ralph Lauren suit costs over $900, before the cost of tailoring it to fit you). Seriously, look up the Hong Kong tailor people. If you know your measurements cold, some of them have websites, and you can just send them your information and a picture of yourself and what you want made. Try http://cosmocircle.com/
2. Stylish comfortable shoes, with matching belt and socks
Your socks should match your pants, not your shoes. Your shoes and belt should match each other, and compliment your pants--brown leather with brown/tan/khaki pants, black leather with everything else.
Really, they are shooting themselves in the foot. If you look at the business model right now, iTMS has one-click purchasing and one price, 99 cents. That means that no one ever thinks about the price when buying the music. Everyone just knows that a track costs 99 cents, and they forget about it and go on a spree of downloading. 99 cents doesn't seem like a lot of money, so they just click-buy-click-buy without having to think about money.
If you start changing the prices around, people will have to start thinking about money. The last thing you want people to be doing when shopping is to be thinking about the price. But if the prices are all different, people will start thinking about the price every time they want to download a track. This will discourage the kind of mindless impulse mp3 buying that makes iTMS so successful. The record companies are chock full of a bunch of morons.
According to the Freedom House Press Freedom rankings [PDF file], the U.S. is tied for 24th. It did drop about nine ranks since last year's survey [PDF file] (from 15 to 24), but that's due to a raw score drop of only two points (from 15 to 17).
You are teaching religion as science, I don't even think fundamentalist muslims do that. Then you sort-of ban freedom of speech by forbidding blogging, of all stupid things to ban (whatever happened to land of the free?), introduce laws like DMCA, and are actively trying to destroy the whole worlds intellectual property laws.
Everything you mention here is wrong, backwards, or at the very least an overexaggeration.
One school district in the entire United States has approved curriculums that present "counter-evidence" against evolution. Somehow this makes the U.S. equivalent to a theocracy in your eyes.
Blogging is not forbidden. There are more bloggers in the United States than anywhere else in the world. What is forbidden is using unregulated soft money to create partisan blogs in order to bolster a party's political machine. If anything, that's preserving freedom by limiting the disproportionate effect of money.
I agree, the DMCA is stupid. That law is not written in stone however, and organizations like the EFF are working to change things for the better.
Finally, the U.S. isn't trying to destroy the rest of the world's IP laws. It's trying to get the rest of the world to enforce IP laws. Would you suggest that the U.S. just wave the white flag to bootleggers throughout Asia, ripping off U.S. movies, software, etc? That's hardly fair to the creative people in the U.S. Meanwhile, the U.S. respects the IP of foreign content producers. Is it too much to ask that foreign countries reciprocate?
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China would not "kick America's butt in both a ground war and a nuclear exchange". China has at most 18 ICBMs capable of reaching the continental United States. We have about 10,000 that could reach China, plus a quasi-functional missile defense system. Honestly, we wouldn't need to "win" a ground war. All we'd need to do is bomb all their electric plants, oil and gas pipelines, passes in and out of the country, and mine their harbors. Enforce a blockade and that's the end of that.
Russia and India would "have a fit" but wouldn't do a goddamn thing. Neither of them wants to voluntarily get involved in a nuclear war.
Actually, it'll probably look a lot more like this:
http://www.4guysfromviewpoint.com/?p=76
That's weird. I had never heard of the Trip Planner. I always used The RideGuide. Why, I wonder, would WMATA have two different ride planners on the same website? Good to know our DC tax dollars are hard at work.
I don't think he's talking about the technical underpinnings. I think he's talking about software design and human usability. After a certain point, it doesn't matter what's under the hood. I think that he feels OS X abandoned OS 9's user interface guidelines in exchange for superior technical underpinnings but inferior usability dressed up in eye candy.
Don't you mean PepeLeP.eu?
Fair enough, and a good point. However, I feel like I ought to point out that the slave labor was only a secondary effect, a side benefit if you will, of the concentration camps. They were not created for the war effort (they were created for "racial purification"), but since they were there, they were used for the war effort.
Here, of course, are the best of the possible anagrams. The agenda of Bonhomie Snoutintroff is thus revealed:
I have to say, it's all becoming much clearer now. Lameness filter doesn't like caps, no it doesn't, the caps are really bad, it's like yelling, you see, it's rude, so rude, so lame to post things in caps. I wish I could just post this goddamn message without having to continually test the lameness filter to see if I can get through. I am so tired of this "feature".
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor could certainly fit the definition of fighting dirty--that's certainly how it was portrayed. But a sneak attack is more or less legitimate, even though it's a crime against the peace and an attack on a non-aggressor. There's nothing especially dirty about it--not like using chemical weapons or torture or what-have-you.
That's a pretty expensive "lark."
The Japanese would want it one way. The South Koreans would call them imperialist. The Chinese would protest because the Japanese domain was militaristic and suggest their own domain. Taiwan would feel obligated to make its own suggestion. China would get pissed off. North Korea would interject with some bizarre non-sequitur. South East Asia would try to find a joint name but couldn't reconcile between the Buddhists, Catholics, and Muslims. India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan would blow each other up before agreeing on a common TLD. Central Asia doesn't know what the internet is. And the Arab countries would blame Israel for the disunity, while Israel took the U.S. position.
You can already do those things. All modern browsers and OSes support unicode characters.
The problem is not emails or website text, it's URLs with non-english alphabet characters.
I couldn't agree more. Pornography and gambling lead to individuals with well-balanced moods and a little extra scratch for their pockets, while IMing and blogging lead to mental degeneration, illiteracy, rumormongering, and full-spectrum uselessness to society.
It's no worse than any other page on the internet. Something about this reeks of a double standard. If CNN had put up a bio page of him with that incorrect piece of information for three months, do you think he would have written an op-ed impugning CNN and the internet? Doubtful. He would have contacted CNN, told them what for, and had it removed. Which is exactly what he did with Wikipedia, except he also felt the need to whine about how helpless he is that he can't sue somebody. Moreover, he seems to have unrealistic standards about how accurate the internet is: any moron can pay $10 and put up a website saying this guy "was briefly suspected of being involved in the character assasination" of his friends. Wikipedia is no different from any other webpage out there, except that it can be corrected quicker in most cases.
I believe that passing the Acid test is the job of the Gecko hackers, not the Firefox hackers. Safari passes because their lead developer got a bug in his pants and decided to get 'er done, that's all. That being said, the Acid 2 test isn't really about what CSS features the browser supports, it's about how the browser handles poorly formed code. It's less of a priority to navigate bad code than it is to make sure that code works in the first place.
The keys to tha vault everyone else uses: red wine.
Richard Chesler: Is that your blood?
Narrator [Smoking a cigarette]: Some of it, yeah.
Richard Chesler: Take the rest of the day off. Come back with some clean clothes.
The great thing about wearing a suit is that no one every questions what you're doing. It's like, as long as you are wearing the suit and tie, you have an automatic aura of trust. Everyone assumes that you're a respectable, upstanding, responsible person just going about their business, and shouldn't be bothered. It's hilarious. People are more helpful and solicitous of you, they don't give you as much attitude, and they're willing to do favors for you that they normally wouldn't do for just average joes. That's why all these assholes in management get whatever they want. No one understands it, but it's at least 50% suit, and thew other 50% is just a confident attitude.
I thought it was pronounced "camel toe". Am I wrong?
Get clothes hand tailored for you. You'll look ten times better than wearing poorly cut off the rack stuff. Also, it's not as expensive as you might think. If you live in a major city, you'll often see ads placed in the paper for tailors visiting from Hong Kong. They set up shop in a hotel room for two days, people come by and get their measurements taken, choose a fabric and a style, then a couple weeks later they get a package mailed from Hong Kong with their hand tailored clothes. I bought two hand tailored suits for $900 (for comparison, one off-the-rack Polo Ralph Lauren suit costs over $900, before the cost of tailoring it to fit you). Seriously, look up the Hong Kong tailor people. If you know your measurements cold, some of them have websites, and you can just send them your information and a picture of yourself and what you want made. Try http://cosmocircle.com/
Your socks should match your pants, not your shoes. Your shoes and belt should match each other, and compliment your pants--brown leather with brown/tan/khaki pants, black leather with everything else.
If you start changing the prices around, people will have to start thinking about money. The last thing you want people to be doing when shopping is to be thinking about the price. But if the prices are all different, people will start thinking about the price every time they want to download a track. This will discourage the kind of mindless impulse mp3 buying that makes iTMS so successful. The record companies are chock full of a bunch of morons.
According to the Freedom House Press Freedom rankings [PDF file], the U.S. is tied for 24th. It did drop about nine ranks since last year's survey [PDF file] (from 15 to 24), but that's due to a raw score drop of only two points (from 15 to 17).
Everything you mention here is wrong, backwards, or at the very least an overexaggeration.
One school district in the entire United States has approved curriculums that present "counter-evidence" against evolution. Somehow this makes the U.S. equivalent to a theocracy in your eyes.
Blogging is not forbidden. There are more bloggers in the United States than anywhere else in the world. What is forbidden is using unregulated soft money to create partisan blogs in order to bolster a party's political machine. If anything, that's preserving freedom by limiting the disproportionate effect of money.
I agree, the DMCA is stupid. That law is not written in stone however, and organizations like the EFF are working to change things for the better.
Finally, the U.S. isn't trying to destroy the rest of the world's IP laws. It's trying to get the rest of the world to enforce IP laws. Would you suggest that the U.S. just wave the white flag to bootleggers throughout Asia, ripping off U.S. movies, software, etc? That's hardly fair to the creative people in the U.S. Meanwhile, the U.S. respects the IP of foreign content producers. Is it too much to ask that foreign countries reciprocate?
Au contraire, the pope is the antichrist, not Satan himself. Shows how much you know... ;)
Well, if you approach study from empiricism rather than from straight theory, you'll understand why Americans equate Communism with Totalitarianism.