Yeah, fuck the environment, and fuck public transportation! We US Americans have the god given right to drive our gas guzzlers over any plant, animal, or small third world country that stands (or lies) in our way. In fact, just to assert my authority as an American on this matter I'm going to go outside, dump some gasoline in a river (just for fun), and do some donuts. GOD BLESS AMERICA!
As an AC pointed out, you absolutely did not cite facts. You mentioned events, but even so, some years have had more acts of terrorism than others, and you are selecting events to try to fit into a trend you just thought up. If you find an actual study that takes into account all acts of terrorism and can find a geometric relationship, I'd be extremely surprised.
(Even your suggestion of terrorism killing people in the single digits is wrong)- The RAF group is just one quick mention of a group that was actively involved in terrorism and would bring the numbers out of the single digits for the the 70s and 80s)
You can send pictures, movies, music, contacts, and whatever else is stored on there between them. I've used it a couple times, it is convenient occasionally.
No, trust me, you wouldn't. Seeing the people who shop there is bad enough, but then dealing with their shit quality products is even worse. I'll never shop there again, mainly due to their abusive labor tactics, but also because they don't sell anything that won't break after a few weeks of use.
Everything the article says is true. Google not only doesn't post Christmas logos, they hate Christmas, and they will use their new cellphone based Google OS to send signals into the air to turn Santa Clause into a mindless, liberal zombie. He will give presents of thongs and condoms to children, along with bootlegged copies of Brokeback mountain. Google will use liberal attack ad propaganda to turn us all into communists.
Maybe you should read the "article" a little further. You'll find advertisements made with a nice big dose of crazy.
I saw that idea posted on here, and I have to say it's absolutely awesome. The research and development costs sound really high, but the payoff of such a system would be incredible. But I'd consider myself lucky to see even mediocre public transportation built in America in the next 20-40 years, let alone something as revolutionary as that.
The commuter rail services were dismantled by the car companies. We need to develop them and improve them, but sadly no candidate for office even thinks of proposing such a measure because they are too busy arguing over wedge issues like fetuses and gay marriage, instead of addressing real issues...
I wish I had mod points. The amount of abuse in this thread is incredible.. There are good posts left and right being marked as troll. Hopefully someone with some common sense will come by and rectify the parent post...
And the use of foreskin is what, exactly? Other than being something you have to clean all the time so that it doesn't get infected, there is absolutely no use. The skin cut off is also used to help grow skin for burn victims, a worthy use of skin that has no practical purpose.
I am American and am currently working in Germany, so my understanding of their politics isn't that great. But with that said, pretty much everyone here thinks that Schäuble is an absolute idiot. I have not met a single person who supports his policies. He is made fun of in numerous websites, on tv, and by most of the people here. The outcry against his fearmongering tactics has been sizeable and a number of politicians are opposing him.
Now, contrast this with America where Bush and the Republicans used the exact same fear mongering tactics and got their way. With the exception of Russ Feingold, pretty much every politician went for it hook, line and sinker. I'm happy to say that, so far, that hasn't happened here.
Look at California(163,707 sq. mi, 36,457,000 people) compared with France(339908 sq mi. 60,144,000 people). California is what, the 9th largest economy in the WORLD? Where is France on the list?
France would be at number 6. (Number 5 in some other lists I saw). That puts France something like a half a trillion dollars ahead of California.
In terms of comparing apples to apples, what aspect of California even matches to France? They have vastly different amounts of land and people.
And I agree that comparing Europe to America gives a much different picture. Their economy is $1 trillion larger than ours, and not a single country has a president that's as bad as ours.
Are we living in the same dimension? Even ignoring the flag waving nut cases on pretty much every TV channel, all you need is an American college campus to see this. It's not people going out of there way to say America is #1, most of the time it is simply misconceptions that people have about the rest of the world. With the dollar being so weak, though, maybe people will come to more realizations that the US is just one of many countries and isn't as special as the civics classes back in high school make it seem.
I agree with most of your post, except the "enough" part. If we spent enough on science, my high school physics class would have had enough money to conduct experiments. Considering that I attended a fairly well off suburban high school in Connecticut, and the only experiment we performed involved Popsicle-stick bridges and some elmer's glue, the state of science funding across the US can't be particularly good. (That and the teacher was an idiot. My Physics teachers in college were much better..)
While they may not possess the tech skills of old -- expertise in outdated areas like NetWare, Cobol, even ColdFusion programming -- this new generation packs a punch with mastery of things like HTML programming and a complete comfort level with business basics like Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel, not to mention Web 2.0 advances like blogging and social networking.
How does knowing HTML pack a punch in comparison with COBOL? Does this writer even know how all these "Web 2.0 advances" are being made? And even though I wouldn't use ColdFusion, that's one way blogs and social network sites get created. This writer is incredibly unqualified to be writing any article about technology. This isn't the only stupid line in there.
Excuse him for paraphrasing the argument, and only including one piece of a large argument against a gold standard. His post is nonetheless correct, and just because you don't seem want to understand it or read it doesn't make it "trivial blather".
For someone calling other people stupid and claiming to have such a grasp of the actual facts, it would do you service to actually consider the facts regarding Israel's creation and not call it a terrorist state. The creation of Israel was far from ideal, but it was also far from terrorism. (Any logical and even handed consideration of the state's formation acknowledges major problems with Arab leadership during that time period, mainly the fact that they went directly to war)
While you have many points in your post I can agree with, the suggestion that Iran is a suitable nation for nuclear weapons is ridiculous. His abuses of human rights within Iran, especially with regards to women, prove that that administration would be willing to do things to other nations that even America wouldn't consider.
And how many wars has Iran started in the last 50 years? Since there's no point in considering anything before the Iranian revolution, we can just go with 1979 onwards. They couldn't start a whole lot of wars considering they were at war with Iraq from 1980 until 1988 (Which Iraq started), leaving their military and country in a fairly weak state for many years after that. They have, however, said they want to take Israel off the map. And you think that they should have nukes to keep Israel in check? It's bad enough that Israel has nuclear weapons, the last thing we need is for two countries in the region to have them. The solution to nuclear proliferation isn't more nuclear proliferation!
That will save a ton of time. The last time I tried to get to the Munich airport from the city, I missed my flight because it takes forever to get there. If there is a traffic jam on the autobahn you are forced to take the S-bahn (pretty much a train), but that takes about 45 minutes or so. It's slow as hell and Munich really needs this maglev train.
You are right that, though, that if the train didn't stop at each station it would make it there fairly fast, but you have to remember that the only rail lines going there are probably the S-bahn lines, and possibly some regional tracks, which means a fast moving train might get stuck behind a slow one (thus forcing it to stop, or the regional to find a way to get out of the way).
How dare you! This is slashdot!
-5 Disagrees with prevailing slashdot opinion
(I refuse to use Vista, that way I can remain ignorant of whether it is good or not and simply agree with everyone else)
You forgot one small part. Apple also leaves out that whole monopoly thing. Especially with the iPhone. There are at least a few other cell phones on the market, if I remember correctly...
And to give it some credit on the AJAX end, it doesn't use AJAX for the sake of using it. When AJAX is used you barely notice (like auto-saving drafts), but you are thankful that it does when your browser crashes/close the window by mistake or whatever happens to make you lose the mail you were writing. It's really a major contrast to sites that just throw AJAX everywhere even when it has no good purpose doing what they make it do.
Do you even know what socialism is? Just because Social Security has "social" in the name doesn't make the US a socialist state by any stretch of the imagination.
Dubai is not a country... it's a city (and an Emirate) within the UAE. However, you are correct that they do this, and they do it across the board- from low paid construction workers to university professors.
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Yeah, fuck the environment, and fuck public transportation! We US Americans have the god given right to drive our gas guzzlers over any plant, animal, or small third world country that stands (or lies) in our way. In fact, just to assert my authority as an American on this matter I'm going to go outside, dump some gasoline in a river (just for fun), and do some donuts. GOD BLESS AMERICA!
You don't get to keep the money you steal, which means he will not profit at all. He's financially screwed.
As an AC pointed out, you absolutely did not cite facts. You mentioned events, but even so, some years have had more acts of terrorism than others, and you are selecting events to try to fit into a trend you just thought up. If you find an actual study that takes into account all acts of terrorism and can find a geometric relationship, I'd be extremely surprised.
(Even your suggestion of terrorism killing people in the single digits is wrong)- The RAF group is just one quick mention of a group that was actively involved in terrorism and would bring the numbers out of the single digits for the the 70s and 80s)
You can send pictures, movies, music, contacts, and whatever else is stored on there between them. I've used it a couple times, it is convenient occasionally.
No, trust me, you wouldn't. Seeing the people who shop there is bad enough, but then dealing with their shit quality products is even worse. I'll never shop there again, mainly due to their abusive labor tactics, but also because they don't sell anything that won't break after a few weeks of use.
Everything the article says is true. Google not only doesn't post Christmas logos, they hate Christmas, and they will use their new cellphone based Google OS to send signals into the air to turn Santa Clause into a mindless, liberal zombie. He will give presents of thongs and condoms to children, along with bootlegged copies of Brokeback mountain. Google will use liberal attack ad propaganda to turn us all into communists.
Maybe you should read the "article" a little further. You'll find advertisements made with a nice big dose of crazy.
I only have one question... Wann kann ich umziehen!? (Or have I messed that up because I can't do the Swiss-german dialect at all)
I saw that idea posted on here, and I have to say it's absolutely awesome. The research and development costs sound really high, but the payoff of such a system would be incredible. But I'd consider myself lucky to see even mediocre public transportation built in America in the next 20-40 years, let alone something as revolutionary as that.
The commuter rail services were dismantled by the car companies. We need to develop them and improve them, but sadly no candidate for office even thinks of proposing such a measure because they are too busy arguing over wedge issues like fetuses and gay marriage, instead of addressing real issues...
I wish I had mod points. The amount of abuse in this thread is incredible.. There are good posts left and right being marked as troll. Hopefully someone with some common sense will come by and rectify the parent post...
And the use of foreskin is what, exactly? Other than being something you have to clean all the time so that it doesn't get infected, there is absolutely no use. The skin cut off is also used to help grow skin for burn victims, a worthy use of skin that has no practical purpose.
Your post sucks because your command of the english language simply can't match GP's use of "stupendously prolific"
I am American and am currently working in Germany, so my understanding of their politics isn't that great. But with that said, pretty much everyone here thinks that Schäuble is an absolute idiot. I have not met a single person who supports his policies. He is made fun of in numerous websites, on tv, and by most of the people here. The outcry against his fearmongering tactics has been sizeable and a number of politicians are opposing him.
Now, contrast this with America where Bush and the Republicans used the exact same fear mongering tactics and got their way. With the exception of Russ Feingold, pretty much every politician went for it hook, line and sinker. I'm happy to say that, so far, that hasn't happened here.
Are we living in the same dimension? Even ignoring the flag waving nut cases on pretty much every TV channel, all you need is an American college campus to see this. It's not people going out of there way to say America is #1, most of the time it is simply misconceptions that people have about the rest of the world. With the dollar being so weak, though, maybe people will come to more realizations that the US is just one of many countries and isn't as special as the civics classes back in high school make it seem.
I agree with most of your post, except the "enough" part. If we spent enough on science, my high school physics class would have had enough money to conduct experiments. Considering that I attended a fairly well off suburban high school in Connecticut, and the only experiment we performed involved Popsicle-stick bridges and some elmer's glue, the state of science funding across the US can't be particularly good. (That and the teacher was an idiot. My Physics teachers in college were much better..)
Excuse him for paraphrasing the argument, and only including one piece of a large argument against a gold standard. His post is nonetheless correct, and just because you don't seem want to understand it or read it doesn't make it "trivial blather".
For someone calling other people stupid and claiming to have such a grasp of the actual facts, it would do you service to actually consider the facts regarding Israel's creation and not call it a terrorist state. The creation of Israel was far from ideal, but it was also far from terrorism. (Any logical and even handed consideration of the state's formation acknowledges major problems with Arab leadership during that time period, mainly the fact that they went directly to war)
While you have many points in your post I can agree with, the suggestion that Iran is a suitable nation for nuclear weapons is ridiculous. His abuses of human rights within Iran, especially with regards to women, prove that that administration would be willing to do things to other nations that even America wouldn't consider.
And how many wars has Iran started in the last 50 years? Since there's no point in considering anything before the Iranian revolution, we can just go with 1979 onwards. They couldn't start a whole lot of wars considering they were at war with Iraq from 1980 until 1988 (Which Iraq started), leaving their military and country in a fairly weak state for many years after that. They have, however, said they want to take Israel off the map. And you think that they should have nukes to keep Israel in check? It's bad enough that Israel has nuclear weapons, the last thing we need is for two countries in the region to have them. The solution to nuclear proliferation isn't more nuclear proliferation!
That will save a ton of time. The last time I tried to get to the Munich airport from the city, I missed my flight because it takes forever to get there. If there is a traffic jam on the autobahn you are forced to take the S-bahn (pretty much a train), but that takes about 45 minutes or so. It's slow as hell and Munich really needs this maglev train. You are right that, though, that if the train didn't stop at each station it would make it there fairly fast, but you have to remember that the only rail lines going there are probably the S-bahn lines, and possibly some regional tracks, which means a fast moving train might get stuck behind a slow one (thus forcing it to stop, or the regional to find a way to get out of the way).
How dare you! This is slashdot! -5 Disagrees with prevailing slashdot opinion (I refuse to use Vista, that way I can remain ignorant of whether it is good or not and simply agree with everyone else)
You forgot one small part. Apple also leaves out that whole monopoly thing. Especially with the iPhone. There are at least a few other cell phones on the market, if I remember correctly...
And to give it some credit on the AJAX end, it doesn't use AJAX for the sake of using it. When AJAX is used you barely notice (like auto-saving drafts), but you are thankful that it does when your browser crashes/close the window by mistake or whatever happens to make you lose the mail you were writing. It's really a major contrast to sites that just throw AJAX everywhere even when it has no good purpose doing what they make it do.
Do you even know what socialism is? Just because Social Security has "social" in the name doesn't make the US a socialist state by any stretch of the imagination.
Dubai is not a country... it's a city (and an Emirate) within the UAE. However, you are correct that they do this, and they do it across the board- from low paid construction workers to university professors.