According to some models of global warming I was introduced to in a 1 credit college climate class I took, we won't be suffering from food shortages in the U.S. at least. Yes the bread basket will move further north according to the models but luckily we have plenty of land further north - a.k.a Canada that will work just fine for growing crops. The only countries that will suffer a lot will be those countries in southern latitudes. From a cynical point of view global warming is good for the U.S. because it weakens our other nations giving us more leverage in achieving our national interests.
The U.S. has more freedom of speech; you can even legally be in a hate group and spout out hate rhetoric which is not the case in many European countries like Germany.
The point is these immigrants are a problem and need to be kicked out of Europe. Europe is historically white people territory; they need to get out of our turf. Just think how they would react if 6 million white people moved into saudi arabia. One need only look at Israel to see how well different civilizations get along.
Check out globalcombat.com , it is an excellent improved upon version of risk that I've played for years on and off. It is web based and allows multiplayer games of anywhere between 2 and 32 players. Turn rates can be anywhere from 1 minute to 72 hours. Check it out.
Aren't you being a bit hyprocritcal with that last statement? Aren't you advocating tactics that force people to either accept the status quo or be persecuted?
It's only a matter of time before the U.S. military adopts technologies that will reduce ied effectiveness. I doubt we'll ever be able to complete eliminate all ied from exploding succesfully on their intended target but I think it's very possible that we could develop technologies that could render them largely ineffectual. Militarily on a strategic level ieds already are currently ineffectual as the number of casulties we have sustained in proportion to our population of 300 million is miniscule. Just to provide examples of one technology that one day I'm sure will be introduced, one need only look to the recent winner in the Darpa grand challenge, in which a robotic vehicle navigated a difficult course completely on it's own. One day we will have robot controlled military transport trucks, reducing the number of U.S. soldiers having to be put in harms way. I also belief technology could help in terms of improving survellance of roads and hopefully enabling us to kill more of these bomb layers before they set up their ieds. All this will take quite some time to develop so things might get worse before they get better but I have no problem believing that U.S. has the capacity to negate anything the current slew of insurgents throw at us. We just need to remember that it takes time for the U.S. military to adapt it's infrastructure and tactics to be able to effectively defeat this threat as it is very different from the cold war threat of facing another modern military.
China has not been a world power for all known history and you only need to look at the 19th and early 20th century to see they were dominated by Europeans states like the UK. Furthermore the point should be made that the China nation that existed 2000 years ago is different enough from the modern state we call China, that they should be regarded as separate entities. The same could be said for other nations that claim a western civilization heritage with the ancient greeks. While it's true Britain and the United states existence has been strongly influenced by the ancient hellenistic greeks there certainly are plenty of differences including time, place, other customs that clearly differentiate them from one another. All I'm saying in a nutshell is that the modern, industrialized world we live today is so different then that of the ancient or medieval world, that the modern Chinese have more in common with modern Europeans and Americans, then they do with their 2000 year old ancestors. Also whatever you want to say about China's greatness, the fact of the matter is the Europeans were the ones who eventually brought about the industrial revolution and the modern world we live in today. Who knows, it's quite possible China may take the lead in 21st century in furthering the progress of civilization another step but only after it has embraced the modern world that western civilization has created (Which it is doing by the way, including it's current capitalistic reforms). The fact is all civilizations borrow and steal great ideas from one another and China is no exception. So get rid of your foolish nationalistic pride that everything that is good was derived from Chinese civilization. The world is becoming more globalized and internationl to the point where it's often not possible to associate a technological achievement with a country.
China doesn't have as much control over us economically as you might think. The US has a nearly 12 trillion gross domestic product according to the cia world factbook, http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/, so while the trend of deficits is a bad thing and could one day lead to China having that kind of leverage over us they are by no means there yet.
I would say the solution to being distracted by email etc, is to plan specific times during the day to check it and respond to email. If you are in a job that requires you respond quickly, set to check your email once every hour, or once every day if your job is less time sensitive. The key thing not to do is to have your mail client constantly open alerting you to newly arrived mail and tempting you to lose focus on what you're doing.
Seriously, Half Life 2 was good but it wasn't at all revolutionary like half life 1. The gameplay was very linear, the ai wasn't all that great, and I didn't like the weapons all that much with the exception of the gravity gun. I would rate Half Life 2 as a great game, but I would also rate Far Cry as a great game.
Computers will never be better as musicians as humans. They may be able to reproduce sounds extremely accurately but they obviously are lacking in everything else that makes music music.
There is free imap mail services. Check out http://www.imapmail.org/ . The only catch for the free service is you have to find your own smtp mail server to send messages, but then if you have an isp you can use theirs or you can make your own machine an smtp sending machine.
I still run windows win2k pro at home and plan to remain with it until new programs stop supporting it. At work though I've had to set up machines with xp. XP out the box default settings are incredibly annoying but I have to say if you take the time to configure one machine and then make an image of it you can make it even more functional then win2k. I set all the layout looks back to classic mode, installed tweak ui power toys, including the iso recorder, so now all systems have built in burning capacity for standard data as well as iso's. In addition I've read win2k doesn't support hyperthreading while xp does so if your machine runs new intel p4's you're better off with XP, at home though I still run an overclocked athlon xp so win2k is just as good. I still think win2k is a little less bloated and if you're after maximum speed one should go with setting up win2k over xp, but with 2.8p4's and above the speed hit you take with xp is negligble, and with hyperthreading I've noticed the 2.8ghz dell optiplex's are faster with basic tasks then my o/c athlon 2100 at 2.2Ghz.
Even if the rip is dvd quality it's not the same thing as going to the movies and participating in a great american social event. Star wars is for the big screen.
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According to some models of global warming I was introduced to in a 1 credit college climate class I took, we won't be suffering from food shortages in the U.S. at least. Yes the bread basket will move further north according to the models but luckily we have plenty of land further north - a.k.a Canada that will work just fine for growing crops. The only countries that will suffer a lot will be those countries in southern latitudes. From a cynical point of view global warming is good for the U.S. because it weakens our other nations giving us more leverage in achieving our national interests.
I can't believe it if it is.
I agree
The U.S. has more freedom of speech; you can even legally be in a hate group and spout out hate rhetoric which is not the case in many European countries like Germany.
The point is these immigrants are a problem and need to be kicked out of Europe. Europe is historically white people territory; they need to get out of our turf. Just think how they would react if 6 million white people moved into saudi arabia. One need only look at Israel to see how well different civilizations get along.
The Muslim population needs to get out of France. Think how the Arabs would react if 6 million white people decided immigrate to Saudi Arabia.
Check out globalcombat.com , it is an excellent improved upon version of risk that I've played for years on and off. It is web based and allows multiplayer games of anywhere between 2 and 32 players. Turn rates can be anywhere from 1 minute to 72 hours. Check it out.
Believe me, it's not difficult to max out even the most expensive graphics card on the market.
Aren't you being a bit hyprocritcal with that last statement? Aren't you advocating tactics that force people to either accept the status quo or be persecuted?
It's only a matter of time before the U.S. military adopts technologies that will reduce ied effectiveness. I doubt we'll ever be able to complete eliminate all ied from exploding succesfully on their intended target but I think it's very possible that we could develop technologies that could render them largely ineffectual. Militarily on a strategic level ieds already are currently ineffectual as the number of casulties we have sustained in proportion to our population of 300 million is miniscule. Just to provide examples of one technology that one day I'm sure will be introduced, one need only look to the recent winner in the Darpa grand challenge, in which a robotic vehicle navigated a difficult course completely on it's own. One day we will have robot controlled military transport trucks, reducing the number of U.S. soldiers having to be put in harms way. I also belief technology could help in terms of improving survellance of roads and hopefully enabling us to kill more of these bomb layers before they set up their ieds. All this will take quite some time to develop so things might get worse before they get better but I have no problem believing that U.S. has the capacity to negate anything the current slew of insurgents throw at us. We just need to remember that it takes time for the U.S. military to adapt it's infrastructure and tactics to be able to effectively defeat this threat as it is very different from the cold war threat of facing another modern military.
China has not been a world power for all known history and you only need to look at the 19th and early 20th century to see they were dominated by Europeans states like the UK. Furthermore the point should be made that the China nation that existed 2000 years ago is different enough from the modern state we call China, that they should be regarded as separate entities. The same could be said for other nations that claim a western civilization heritage with the ancient greeks. While it's true Britain and the United states existence has been strongly influenced by the ancient hellenistic greeks there certainly are plenty of differences including time, place, other customs that clearly differentiate them from one another. All I'm saying in a nutshell is that the modern, industrialized world we live today is so different then that of the ancient or medieval world, that the modern Chinese have more in common with modern Europeans and Americans, then they do with their 2000 year old ancestors. Also whatever you want to say about China's greatness, the fact of the matter is the Europeans were the ones who eventually brought about the industrial revolution and the modern world we live in today. Who knows, it's quite possible China may take the lead in 21st century in furthering the progress of civilization another step but only after it has embraced the modern world that western civilization has created (Which it is doing by the way, including it's current capitalistic reforms). The fact is all civilizations borrow and steal great ideas from one another and China is no exception. So get rid of your foolish nationalistic pride that everything that is good was derived from Chinese civilization. The world is becoming more globalized and internationl to the point where it's often not possible to associate a technological achievement with a country.
China doesn't have as much control over us economically as you might think. The US has a nearly 12 trillion gross domestic product according to the cia world factbook, http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/, so while the trend of deficits is a bad thing and could one day lead to China having that kind of leverage over us they are by no means there yet.
Better yet, stop using adobe reader and download foxit reader. It loads pdfs instantly and only takes less then 10 megs of space.
I would say the solution to being distracted by email etc, is to plan specific times during the day to check it and respond to email. If you are in a job that requires you respond quickly, set to check your email once every hour, or once every day if your job is less time sensitive. The key thing not to do is to have your mail client constantly open alerting you to newly arrived mail and tempting you to lose focus on what you're doing.
Seriously, Half Life 2 was good but it wasn't at all revolutionary like half life 1. The gameplay was very linear, the ai wasn't all that great, and I didn't like the weapons all that much with the exception of the gravity gun. I would rate Half Life 2 as a great game, but I would also rate Far Cry as a great game.
yeah if you're a hardcore geek loser who is nothing more then a soulless machine.
Computers will never be better as musicians as humans. They may be able to reproduce sounds extremely accurately but they obviously are lacking in everything else that makes music music.
There is free imap mail services. Check out http://www.imapmail.org/ . The only catch for the free service is you have to find your own smtp mail server to send messages, but then if you have an isp you can use theirs or you can make your own machine an smtp sending machine.
I still run windows win2k pro at home and plan to remain with it until new programs stop supporting it. At work though I've had to set up machines with xp. XP out the box default settings are incredibly annoying but I have to say if you take the time to configure one machine and then make an image of it you can make it even more functional then win2k. I set all the layout looks back to classic mode, installed tweak ui power toys, including the iso recorder, so now all systems have built in burning capacity for standard data as well as iso's. In addition I've read win2k doesn't support hyperthreading while xp does so if your machine runs new intel p4's you're better off with XP, at home though I still run an overclocked athlon xp so win2k is just as good. I still think win2k is a little less bloated and if you're after maximum speed one should go with setting up win2k over xp, but with 2.8p4's and above the speed hit you take with xp is negligble, and with hyperthreading I've noticed the 2.8ghz dell optiplex's are faster with basic tasks then my o/c athlon 2100 at 2.2Ghz.
You're a huge wuss :-). That said I remember having a nightmare as a kid of that sacrifice chamber in Indiana Jones Temple of DOom.
Your use of the word humanism is incorrect.
"and once in orbit it would last about 10 minutes before a UN missile shot it down (as agreed previously in a UN resolution)." More like 10 years.
Well, sitting by yourself is differnt then sitting in a group.
Even if the rip is dvd quality it's not the same thing as going to the movies and participating in a great american social event. Star wars is for the big screen.
I see China overtaking us in the manufacturing area but that doesn't mean we will lose our technological edge.