I remember watching the news videos of the last remaining people being pulled from the U.S. Compount in Saigon by helicopter.
Could you be thinking of the famous photo by Hubert van Es, with all those people on the rooftop staircase? It was actually an apartment building, not the embassy.
We're damned grateful to you, and the Russians, British, etc., particularly to your grandfathers. But that doesn't mean we have to listen silently to this BS about freedom and liberty. e.g. the US has by far the highest prison population of any developed nation. Liberty!? And what freedom is there with a $7 minimum wage and 10% unemployment? OK, a heck of a lot more than the average on earth, but it's no paradise.
We station tens of thousands of GIs in the EU and South Korea. Both are quite capable of taking care of themselves these days.
While eventually making a massive commitment, the USA showed up very late for both previous world wars. These troops are there to make sure it does not happen again. If all the US troops in Korea are killed in the first 10 minutes of fighting, they will still have done their job. The US will not be waiting for Kim Il to bomb Pearl Harbor.
That's nothing. They let me take a glass bottle of duty-free whisky onto the plane. One swing and that jagged glass is a lot scarier than your silly box-cutter or leatherman.
I asked one of the goons about this seeming paradox, and she said "If I had my way, you wouldn't be able to take that either.". I was tempted to ask her about all the terrorist glassing attacks, but I kinda wanted to get on the flight.
"Do you know why the sun never sets on the British Empire?"
I never understood that expression. It was the greatest empire ever, but all you need is a couple of miserable rocks settled to make that claim. One small colony or protectorate each in the East and West Indies for example, if you start in Europe.
In Texas exactly 7 fatalities included cell phone as a contribtuting factor in 2001.
So you really think all those people jabbering on their mobiles, or texting, admitted it!? Or do the traffic police check the phone company records for incoming calls for all the drivers in any serious accident?
This idea will kill more American accident victims in the first year than 9/11.... imagine the death toll.
And how many will it save? How many seconds does it take to get out of the car, and maybe walk a few metres away before phoning? Yes, road traffic fatalities dwarf terrorist ones, but the real question is how many of those are caused by driver inattention due to cellphones? It has been proved that even with a handsfeee, a phone call is much more distracting than talking to a passenger. Whenever I see a car driving a little erratically, I look in their window, and more often than not the driver is holding a phone.
I'm not saying that jamming is the best solution, but the problem is very real.
Considering that quite a few robberies include bastards invading a house when the occupants are in,
Well, if they invade the house when nobody is home, its not a robbery at all is it? It's a burglary. I'd like to see guns used for crimes against the English language.
How does it matter? Does it let you get the secret key from a card, or somehow pretend to have a different ID? I though the point of using a smartcard is that PCs cannot be trusted. Is this about a MiTM attack without physical access to the PC?
You are making the common mistake of thinking the GPL is a contract. It is not - nobody signs it, there is no payment. Anyone is free to accept it or eject it - they cannot be held to the terms. If they reject it, they are simply in breach of copyright and you must rely on copyright law for redress.
How about $5000 per device they distributed illegally?
Why so little? Hire the RIAA lawyers and sue for one billion dollars.
The Earth is about 8000 miles across, but let's call it 10,000 in round numbers.
10,000km please! Save the poor kids from having to know all the conversion factors. How many fluid pounds in a cubic furlong? Imperial units are almost as bad as long division.
At least Australian customs does not ask if you are (or even have been) a communist, terrorist, or participated in genocide. (Sorry Mr Pot, entry denied.)
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I remember watching the news videos of the last remaining people being pulled from the U.S. Compount in Saigon by helicopter.
Could you be thinking of the famous photo by Hubert van Es, with all those people on the rooftop staircase? It was actually an apartment building, not the embassy.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30755090/ns/world_news-asia-pacific/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16844030@N02/1920939675/
Ye average American Joe might not want to eat cloned meat,
He eats cloned plants, e.g. bananas. What's the difference?
They asked if we still had police service or power in the US.
This just shows that Americans still don't understand ironic humo(u)r.
it knew Japan was ready to surrender
Yes ... the Japs were really known for waving the white flag back then. Just look how little resistance they put up on Iwo Jima.
You mean American kids know about the War on Canada?
We're damned grateful to you, and the Russians, British, etc., particularly to your grandfathers.
But that doesn't mean we have to listen silently to this BS about freedom and liberty.
e.g. the US has by far the highest prison population of any developed nation. Liberty!?
And what freedom is there with a $7 minimum wage and 10% unemployment? OK, a heck of a lot more than the average on earth, but it's no paradise.
We station tens of thousands of GIs in the EU and South Korea. Both are quite capable of taking care of themselves these days.
While eventually making a massive commitment, the USA showed up very late for both previous world wars. These troops are there to make sure it does not happen again.
If all the US troops in Korea are killed in the first 10 minutes of fighting, they will still have done their job. The US will not be waiting for Kim Il to bomb Pearl Harbor.
You'll find that you can make a large amount of low yield explosives quite easily using only what's found in duty free.
Sorry, I cannot. Where are the oxidising chemicals? I cannot find any hydrogen peroxide there. Something else?
But a detonator is still needed.
That implies you are talking about high explosives, not simple incendiaries. Easy to say, but my duty -free shop does not carry nitric acid.
If there was a cleaning product called Nigger-n-Span I get the feeling there would be protests. .
What!? Do you have a problem with my nigger-brown lounge suite?
That's nothing. They let me take a glass bottle of duty-free whisky onto the plane. One swing and that jagged glass is a lot scarier than your silly box-cutter or leatherman.
I asked one of the goons about this seeming paradox, and she said "If I had my way, you wouldn't be able to take that either.". I was tempted to ask her about all the terrorist glassing attacks, but I kinda wanted to get on the flight.
"Do you know why the sun never sets on the British Empire?"
I never understood that expression. It was the greatest empire ever, but all you need is a couple of miserable rocks settled to make that claim.
One small colony or protectorate each in the East and West Indies for example, if you start in Europe.
In Texas exactly 7 fatalities included cell phone as a contribtuting factor in 2001.
So you really think all those people jabbering on their mobiles, or texting, admitted it!?
Or do the traffic police check the phone company records for incoming calls for all the drivers in any serious accident?
This idea will kill more American accident victims in the first year than 9/11. ... imagine the death toll.
And how many will it save? How many seconds does it take to get out of the car, and maybe walk a few metres away before phoning?
Yes, road traffic fatalities dwarf terrorist ones, but the real question is how many of those are caused by driver inattention due to cellphones?
It has been proved that even with a handsfeee, a phone call is much more distracting than talking to a passenger.
Whenever I see a car driving a little erratically, I look in their window, and more often than not the driver is holding a phone.
I'm not saying that jamming is the best solution, but the problem is very real.
> Houston, we have a problem.
"Good day, mine name is Sanjay, how can I be helping you today?"
> Is that Houston?
"Thankyou. Mission control has been relocated to Mumbai. Can I start by getting your mission number please?"
At least the moderators got the joke.
A woosh and a wrong correction all in one. How would you feel?
Every time I see that quote attributed to Duke Nukem, I bristle.
Yes, I'm pretty sure he stole it from The IT Crowd.
Considering that quite a few robberies include bastards invading a house when the occupants are in,
Well, if they invade the house when nobody is home, its not a robbery at all is it? It's a burglary.
I'd like to see guns used for crimes against the English language.
How does it matter? Does it let you get the secret key from a card, or somehow pretend to have a different ID?
I though the point of using a smartcard is that PCs cannot be trusted.
Is this about a MiTM attack without physical access to the PC?
I think there needs to be a punishment clause.
You are making the common mistake of thinking the GPL is a contract. It is not - nobody signs it, there is no payment.
Anyone is free to accept it or eject it - they cannot be held to the terms. If they reject it, they are simply in breach of copyright and you must rely on copyright law for redress.
How about $5000 per device they distributed illegally?
Why so little? Hire the RIAA lawyers and sue for one billion dollars.
the record profit made by Westpac of ~AU$6billion was on assets of ~AU$700billion. Which is a fairly terrible margin.
It would be if it was their assets, but that number is depositors assets. Perhaps they fail to distinguish.
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1388
Must be a Ph.D. in arts, or they'd know to label their axes. Is that meant to be time on the horizontal axis?
and miniature chiantis?
How many people know that line and have no idea what Chianti is? (an Italian wine, BTW)
The Earth is about 8000 miles across, but let's call it 10,000 in round numbers.
10,000km please! Save the poor kids from having to know all the conversion factors. How many fluid pounds in a cubic furlong?
Imperial units are almost as bad as long division.
At least Australian customs does not ask if you are (or even have been) a communist, terrorist, or participated in genocide. (Sorry Mr Pot, entry denied.)
If anyone wants to Karma-whore, feel free to go get some YouTube links.
You have to suspect an argument is in trouble, if the best citations point to youtube.