My wife is Japanese. Her mother has visited China several times and is learning Mandarin. But two things I know better than to do is attempt to discuss whaling, or Japan's actions in China during the war.
The Chinese population may well be indoctrinated but they're not the only ones. Try and find a Japanese school book which examines - honestly - Japan's history as it pertains to WW2. Good luck with that.
Japanese people do not learn about such subjects and they are perfectly happy and content to remain blissfully ignorant of such things. Out of sight, out of mind.
My Chinese friends believe that China is as good as it gets, but they are no worse than my American friends in that regard: Just be a foreigner and criticise the US to see even the most leftie-liberal Yank's eyes flash with anger.
Asian cultures seem to have much longer collective memories than most others. Japan and China will use truly ancient historical events as examples of why we should hate their enemies too.
I love my Asian family and friends with a passion. They are intellectual and sophisticated in ways too many westerners aren't. I wouldn't be without them. But, yeah, like the rest of us, they have their faults and resorting to rampant Xenophobia at unfortunate moments (such as anytime) is one of them. An unwillingness to accept that they could ever be wrong about any of the perceived threats and offences of the other is another dismaying issue.
Even now, Chinese and Japanese./ readers are angrily thinking of ripostes; "China/Japan has always treated Japan/China badly!"
[W]e've switched to pursuing the Tenth Crusade: cracking down on a bunch of middle eastern equivalents of illiterate hicks hopped up on crackpot religion.
Bold statement when you don't know what's below the Planck level, or how it all connects together.
I was listening until you wrote...
Still only a theory though, so it carries no more weight than any other.
Go look up the words "postulate", "hypothesis" and "Theory". When and/or if you finally learn and understand the difference, come back and try to play some more. Cheers.
Unless you have as much time and pettiness as the "guardians". They do not value "facts". Their intent is to preserve the article as they've written and edited it. If you attempt to introduce unwanted facts into the article, they will immediately revert your edits and continue to do so until you give up.
Unless you can match and raise their idiocy, you'll simply discover that you can't and won't "win". Often these self-appointed "guardians" have some kind of mod status and you'll find your account blocked.
This is what makes Wikipedia almost useless and is what will ultimately destroy it.
Have you ever tried to edit one of the many Wiki articles which have self-appointed "guardians"? Just give it a shot. Every edit you make will be reverted very quickly, with a snide and/or haughty explanation. If you persist you'll find yourself sucked into a brief-but-stupid edit war, before giving up in disgust, like all who tried before you.
That's the secret weapon the self-appointed guardians can always - and always do - fall back upon: they have unlimited time to spend guarding the article from edits they don't like, whereas the rest of us (mostly) have some semblance of a life.
I've never used paypal. There have always been alternatives. I buy and sell on a local online auction site and have never been stiffed by anybody. All transactions are done via online banking (in my case), or by cash (in direct pickups), or via cheques. I don't know of anybody other than eBay users who would even know of PayPal, or how it works and how to use it.
From the things I have heard and read, I would [i]never[/i] even consider using PayPal. Simply not ever. Why take the risk? With a bank, I have legal recourse. But PayPal? No way. If the local auction outfit decide to go PayPal, they'll lose my business and that of many - most - of their other current customers.
As an intelligent and sane person, I know that there are no gods, idols, dieties, prophets, toga-wearing bearded guys floating around in the sky, ghosts, flying saucers, demons, or other childishly idiotic fantasy objects.
It's the people who do claim to believe in such things who worry me. There are so many people trying to live at least a thousand years in the past.
I thought you were just trying to bring Australia into it.
Every single fucking./ thread nowadays is jammed full of "Me Too!" Aussies.
Guys like Zonk and Scuttlemonkey don't help matters, with their attempts to spam this site with any-and-every Australian non-story they can find.
It's bad enough for those of us non-Americans sick of the US-bias in all things, but to see Australians trying to claim every open slot left over is annoying as hell, because nothing of interest happens in Australia, yet interesting news from other parts of the globe goes unreported.
Only infantile nutjobs are permitted to possess it.
PRAISE THE LORD! HALLELUJAH!
If I can't be bothered understanding something, I'll say [deity/idol/god/prophet] made it that way. Why should I have to psychologically mature beyond the age of two years old? The great bearded, toga-wearing boogeyman floating around in the sky will save us from our sins and prevent us from ever having to accept responsibility for anything!
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Some excellent points.
./ readers are angrily thinking of ripostes; "China/Japan has always treated Japan/China badly!"
My wife is Japanese. Her mother has visited China several times and is learning Mandarin. But two things I know better than to do is attempt to discuss whaling, or Japan's actions in China during the war.
The Chinese population may well be indoctrinated but they're not the only ones. Try and find a Japanese school book which examines - honestly - Japan's history as it pertains to WW2. Good luck with that.
Japanese people do not learn about such subjects and they are perfectly happy and content to remain blissfully ignorant of such things. Out of sight, out of mind.
My Chinese friends believe that China is as good as it gets, but they are no worse than my American friends in that regard: Just be a foreigner and criticise the US to see even the most leftie-liberal Yank's eyes flash with anger.
Asian cultures seem to have much longer collective memories than most others. Japan and China will use truly ancient historical events as examples of why we should hate their enemies too.
I love my Asian family and friends with a passion. They are intellectual and sophisticated in ways too many westerners aren't. I wouldn't be without them. But, yeah, like the rest of us, they have their faults and resorting to rampant Xenophobia at unfortunate moments (such as anytime) is one of them. An unwillingness to accept that they could ever be wrong about any of the perceived threats and offences of the other is another dismaying issue.
Even now, Chinese and Japanese
I don't see attitudes changing any time soon.
Everybody knows he pays SF to get every submission to his plagiarist adblog posted, but how much? Must be a pretty lucrative deal.
Gravity is a Theory. String hypothesis is what you get when Cosmologists are bored and drink way too much coffee.
...of "Roland Piquepille".
...suck as much as Web 2.0?
It'll all be just fine.
We should send Halliburton to investigate, immediately!
http://www.xfiles.com/
Looks good!
Those who wish there were need to grow up and take responsibility for their lives.
Yes, yes, I know... (Score:-1, Flamebait)
Yawn.
I once had positive karma, but then I foolishly criticised a post by Michael Sims, without clicking "Post Anonymously". Look where that got me.
It really sucks when you forget to click "Post Anonymously", doesn't it?
I guess this movie is of little interest to real scientists then. Pity.
"Science and faith are mutually exclusive."
Unless you have as much time and pettiness as the "guardians". They do not value "facts". Their intent is to preserve the article as they've written and edited it. If you attempt to introduce unwanted facts into the article, they will immediately revert your edits and continue to do so until you give up.
Unless you can match and raise their idiocy, you'll simply discover that you can't and won't "win". Often these self-appointed "guardians" have some kind of mod status and you'll find your account blocked.
This is what makes Wikipedia almost useless and is what will ultimately destroy it.
Have you ever tried to edit one of the many Wiki articles which have self-appointed "guardians"? Just give it a shot. Every edit you make will be reverted very quickly, with a snide and/or haughty explanation. If you persist you'll find yourself sucked into a brief-but-stupid edit war, before giving up in disgust, like all who tried before you.
That's the secret weapon the self-appointed guardians can always - and always do - fall back upon: they have unlimited time to spend guarding the article from edits they don't like, whereas the rest of us (mostly) have some semblance of a life.
I've never used paypal. There have always been alternatives. I buy and sell on a local online auction site and have never been stiffed by anybody. All transactions are done via online banking (in my case), or by cash (in direct pickups), or via cheques. I don't know of anybody other than eBay users who would even know of PayPal, or how it works and how to use it.
From the things I have heard and read, I would [i]never[/i] even consider using PayPal. Simply not ever. Why take the risk? With a bank, I have legal recourse. But PayPal? No way. If the local auction outfit decide to go PayPal, they'll lose my business and that of many - most - of their other current customers.
That means only two more versions to endure after Windows 7!
Yay!
As an intelligent and sane person, I know that there are no gods, idols, dieties, prophets, toga-wearing bearded guys floating around in the sky, ghosts, flying saucers, demons, or other childishly idiotic fantasy objects.
It's the people who do claim to believe in such things who worry me. There are so many people trying to live at least a thousand years in the past.
Music is mostly for adolescents. Eventually you'll grow out of it, like the rest of us over-30s.
Still plenty of alternatives around.
I thought you were just trying to bring Australia into it.
./ thread nowadays is jammed full of "Me Too!" Aussies.
Every single fucking
Guys like Zonk and Scuttlemonkey don't help matters, with their attempts to spam this site with any-and-every Australian non-story they can find.
It's bad enough for those of us non-Americans sick of the US-bias in all things, but to see Australians trying to claim every open slot left over is annoying as hell, because nothing of interest happens in Australia, yet interesting news from other parts of the globe goes unreported.
...from all the Australian stories usually posted by kdawson and Zonk.
Only infantile nutjobs are permitted to possess it.
PRAISE THE LORD! HALLELUJAH!
If I can't be bothered understanding something, I'll say [deity/idol/god/prophet] made it that way. Why should I have to psychologically mature beyond the age of two years old? The great bearded, toga-wearing boogeyman floating around in the sky will save us from our sins and prevent us from ever having to accept responsibility for anything!