Many people are saying the extent of the disaster is hard to comprehend.
One measure is that the death toll is approaching that of the Iraq war and may soon pass it, though any cost estimates are still less than a tenth of that.
Or put in more flammable (but defendable) terms, this is almost as big a disaster as George W Bush.
When you say "never" how far back does that go? Is it as far as anyone can remember, or through all of the regions recorded history, which for India is several thousand years, unless I'm misinformed.
If it's the latter, and this is something that only happens every several thousand years, a warning system is clearly not a useful investment.
Not even close. Pickled herring has a bit of a strong taste that is not for everyone, but it's nowhere close to Surströmming, which you would never believe was meant for human consumption unless you saw people eat it. That is if you managed to stay in the room without throwing up.
But we must first challenge the concept that free trade is beneficial to all parties. How, precisely, has free trade benefitted the US or the Western world?
By allowing us to buy things we previously had to manufacture ourselves much cheaper from China (clothes & stuff) and India (software). Since it's cheaper we can get more of it (or other things we want), and thus live materially better lives.
Free trade is in large part what made the rich world rich. It's no coincidence that countries with the freest trade are also the richest.
Our trading partners - India and China - do not believe in free trade - why should we?
This argument is based on the assumption that free trade is bad for you. Something you do as a favor to others, hoping they will repay you in kind.
In actual fact, unconditional free trade is good for a country's economy, regardless of whether it's trading partners also practice it.
I know this flies in the face of conventional wisdom and government policy of pretty much every country, but nevertheless it is a basic fact of economics that is typically explained in 10-20 pages in first year economics text books. Don't take my word for it. Read a book on the subject!
A lot of people are upset about creationism possibly being mentioned in science books. But where is the indignation over this scientific fallacy - which affects our daily lives immeasurably more - being far more widespread?
Is that the original radio show or the rerecording that was sold later on vinyl records? What you want is the original. I guess it's probably the original, since that is what BBC would have the righs for, but I wonder if anyone actually knows.
I got the original on tapes through the internet from the other side of the planet back the mid 80s. Then I lent it to a friend, and his girlfriend recorded music for a party on top of them, since "there was just some guy talking" on them...
All these ads include a "talk to your doctor about " part. Since they are prescription medicines, there is no other way for people to actually buy the product.
The other side of it though is that the problem of undermedication is a probably bigger problem than it's opposite.
The number of people who have a serious and perfectly treatable condition, such as high blood pressure, is astounding. One of the few ways to reach these not too initiative strong people is through TV commercials.
So I suspect these ads, distasteful as they may be, actually save quite a lot of lives.
The only reason to team up with Grance and Germany over Russia would be to support freedom and democracy rather than whatever you'd call the nasty imperial dictatorship that's brewing in Russia.
It sounds like that doesn't matter to you, but I actually think it does even to the current US administration, despite all it's nasty faults.
As for WW2, the fact that Russia is about 50 times bigger than France is mostly what made their conquest go on different time scales. Also, while the Nazis respected the French as a fellow civilized people, their stated goal for the slavs was at best to enslave them while their lands were turned into German colonies. Surrender isn't much of an option when facing such an opponent.
When the context is international law and war, talking about rights doesn't get you far, because not much is based on them in this area.
Funny how I only ever hear that kind of thinking from Americans. If it was a universal truth about international relations, you'd expect it to be heard, well, internationally.
1. If you think that one Rumsfeld comment was the only thing aggravating Europeans, you should switch your news source. That was just a small part of the tip of that iceberg.
2. You may also consider shifting your history supplier. Russia was actually allied with the Nazis during the first 2 years of WW2.
Saying that porn is worse than crack is intended to make us think that since it's worse than something already illegal, porn should also be banned.
I just want to remind people that it is just as logical to draw the conclusion that crack should be legalized, since it is better than something that is already legal.
You can get that on Earth already. Where I grew up, just down the street from the North Pole, we had 3 months of daylight during summer. And plenty of water ice, if that's important to you.
It's actually the one thing I miss the most. Once you've experienced life without any darkness, you realize how much the night cripples your life, and it's a hard thing to lose.
I've heard that they're highly sought after as snipers by the military, since they can often spot camouflages that look perfect to the normal human eye.
If you always do the opposite of what those you dislike do, you're not really going your own way. You are just slavishly following others. That you're going in the opposite direction from them doesn't change the fact that you are a slave to their decisions. You're an "anti sheep" if you will.
A true free thinking rebel has no problem doing exactly what the huge masses of idiots do, if he happens to enjoy it.
I realize this is just a mud slinging match at this point, but as a matter of fact, Sweden has quite high immigration, including plenty who try (and succeed) sneaking into the country.
I personally went the other direction and left Sweden for California. Long story...
The NFL press release seems to boil down to this sentence.
After detailed discussions with TiVo, the NFL now concurs that TiVo's current technology will not allow real-time transmissions that would be a cause of concern for the NFL.
Or in other words, nothing will change in this regard.
The PPV timeout thing is a real difference, but PPV is not part of the general Tivo service anyway. Don't buy them if you don't like the conditions.
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What you're recommending Tivo to do is pretty much what Replay did. And it killed them.
These are dangerous waters.
The Palestinians and Israelis live in different areas.
The checkpoints are only in the Palestinian territories, when going from one Palestinian town to another, or when entering Israel proper.
And exactly how do you imagine that guns will stop suicide bombings??
If it isn't, I do have a problem.
Many people are saying the extent of the disaster is hard to comprehend.
One measure is that the death toll is approaching that of the Iraq war and may soon pass it, though any cost estimates are still less than a tenth of that.
Or put in more flammable (but defendable) terms, this is almost as big a disaster as George W Bush.
When you say "never" how far back does that go? Is it as far as anyone can remember, or through all of the regions recorded history, which for India is several thousand years, unless I'm misinformed.
If it's the latter, and this is something that only happens every several thousand years, a warning system is clearly not a useful investment.
"Surströmming" == "Pickled Herring"???
Not even close. Pickled herring has a bit of a strong taste that is not for everyone, but it's nowhere close to Surströmming, which you would never believe was meant for human consumption unless you saw people eat it. That is if you managed to stay in the room without throwing up.
But we must first challenge the concept that free trade is beneficial to all parties. How, precisely, has free trade benefitted the US or the Western world?
By allowing us to buy things we previously had to manufacture ourselves much cheaper from China (clothes & stuff) and India (software). Since it's cheaper we can get more of it (or other things we want), and thus live materially better lives.
Free trade is in large part what made the rich world rich. It's no coincidence that countries with the freest trade are also the richest.
Our trading partners - India and China - do not believe in free trade - why should we?
This argument is based on the assumption that free trade is bad for you. Something you do as a favor to others, hoping they will repay you in kind.
In actual fact, unconditional free trade is good for a country's economy, regardless of whether it's trading partners also practice it.
I know this flies in the face of conventional wisdom and government policy of pretty much every country, but nevertheless it is a basic fact of economics that is typically explained in 10-20 pages in first year economics text books. Don't take my word for it. Read a book on the subject!
A lot of people are upset about creationism possibly being mentioned in science books. But where is the indignation over this scientific fallacy - which affects our daily lives immeasurably more - being far more widespread?
Is that the original radio show or the rerecording that was sold later on vinyl records? What you want is the original. I guess it's probably the original, since that is what BBC would have the righs for, but I wonder if anyone actually knows.
I got the original on tapes through the internet from the other side of the planet back the mid 80s. Then I lent it to a friend, and his girlfriend recorded music for a party on top of them, since "there was just some guy talking" on them...
All these ads include a "talk to your doctor about " part. Since they are prescription medicines, there is no other way for people to actually buy the product.
Is this something like self hating jews?
A lot of people never see a doctor, or if they do it's for some very specific and acute problem.
You can say that it shouldn't be that way - even using italics - but that doesn't change the reality of the situation.
If the problem is that people aren't getting checkups often enough, advertisements are not a solution!
How do you know? Has there been a study made proving it?
The other side of it though is that the problem of undermedication is a probably bigger problem than it's opposite.
The number of people who have a serious and perfectly treatable condition, such as high blood pressure, is astounding. One of the few ways to reach these not too initiative strong people is through TV commercials.
So I suspect these ads, distasteful as they may be, actually save quite a lot of lives.
France and Germany are arguing that democracy is not for everyone, that a nation's sovereign rights preclude the introduction of a democracy.
Seriously dude, you need to get some better news sources. That's a bizarre distortion of their actual positions.
The only reason to team up with Grance and Germany over Russia would be to support freedom and democracy rather than whatever you'd call the nasty imperial dictatorship that's brewing in Russia.
It sounds like that doesn't matter to you, but I actually think it does even to the current US administration, despite all it's nasty faults.
As for WW2, the fact that Russia is about 50 times bigger than France is mostly what made their conquest go on different time scales. Also, while the Nazis respected the French as a fellow civilized people, their stated goal for the slavs was at best to enslave them while their lands were turned into German colonies. Surrender isn't much of an option when facing such an opponent.
When the context is international law and war, talking about rights doesn't get you far, because not much is based on them in this area.
Funny how I only ever hear that kind of thinking from Americans. If it was a universal truth about international relations, you'd expect it to be heard, well, internationally.
1. If you think that one Rumsfeld comment was the only thing aggravating Europeans, you should switch your news source. That was just a small part of the tip of that iceberg.
2. You may also consider shifting your history supplier. Russia was actually allied with the Nazis during the first 2 years of WW2.
Saying that porn is worse than crack is intended to make us think that since it's worse than something already illegal, porn should also be banned.
I just want to remind people that it is just as logical to draw the conclusion that crack should be legalized, since it is better than something that is already legal.
I've never understood this one. How do you know how many times to press this button? Are there always a certain number of 30 second commercials?
You can get that on Earth already. Where I grew up, just down the street from the North Pole, we had 3 months of daylight during summer. And plenty of water ice, if that's important to you.
It's actually the one thing I miss the most. Once you've experienced life without any darkness, you realize how much the night cripples your life, and it's a hard thing to lose.
This assumes that everything that's important is observable.
But how can something that has no observable consequences be thought of as "important"?
I've heard that they're highly sought after as snipers by the military, since they can often spot camouflages that look perfect to the normal human eye.
If you always do the opposite of what those you dislike do, you're not really going your own way. You are just slavishly following others. That you're going in the opposite direction from them doesn't change the fact that you are a slave to their decisions. You're an "anti sheep" if you will.
A true free thinking rebel has no problem doing exactly what the huge masses of idiots do, if he happens to enjoy it.
Nobody is trying to sneak into Sweden.
I realize this is just a mud slinging match at this point, but as a matter of fact, Sweden has quite high immigration, including plenty who try (and succeed) sneaking into the country.
I personally went the other direction and left Sweden for California. Long story...
The NFL press release seems to boil down to this sentence.
After detailed discussions with TiVo, the NFL now concurs that TiVo's current technology will not allow real-time transmissions that would be a cause of concern for the NFL.
Or in other words, nothing will change in this regard.
The PPV timeout thing is a real difference, but PPV is not part of the general Tivo service anyway. Don't buy them if you don't like the conditions.