The only China invasion danger right now is that China might cross an international border and invade Taiwan.
Why invade China?
From Taiwan, Okinawa, Japan and the 3 or 4 Carrier Battle Groups that we'd park nearby, any invasion could be easily repelled.
Remember, to invade, "they" have to send troops by ship or air across 50-100 very hostile miles of the Taiwan Straight. If the PLA does try a direct invasion, it's going to get it's ass kicked.
That's why they'll use saber-rattling and diplomatic/political means, instead.
According to the 1913 Edition of Webster's Dictionary, viola means: "An instrument in form and use resembling the violin, but larger, and a fifth lower in compass."
Since "viola" is an Italian word, and French and Italian aren't hugely different, I seriously doubt that "viola" means "raped" in French.
My son's teacher spent a lot of time on interesting and creative pojects in science and culture.
Great, fantastic, lovely, I'm so happy your son is creative and culturally sensitive.
But does he know when the US Civil War was? What about the Revolutionary War? Who the 1st President was? What the Articles of Confederation were? Has he memorized his multiplication tables? The names of the 8+1 planets, in order? Can he locate all 50 states and most of the European countries on a map?
Kids have to learn a lot of boring-but-important stuff, and if Tests are a way to force schools back to teaching what they are supposed to be teaching, I'm all for it.
But then, all the public schools here suck, so I'm paying out the ass for parochial school, and I thank $DEITY that my parents paid out their asses to send me to private school.
Do you really think that Educators only started whining about Feelings, Sensitivity, Self-Esteem and all that other mush-brained left-wing crap on 08-Jan-2002 (which is when W signed NCLB).
Because Bushie says so. He hates our freedom. He wants to put all of us in prison. That's why there's so many BS and secret laws now. Never underestimate the hatred he has for us.
even though it's seemed completely obvious that they would be.
You'd think so.
"Unfortunately", Oesterreich (Eastern Reich?) is central Europe, and was occupied by the Sovs at the end of WW2. It is the only country that they voluntarily left before it fell apart. It is my understanding that America side-agreed not to try to get Oesterreich into NATO,
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Is Alien really Science Fiction, or is it just a stupendously well-done horror, set in a space ship, rather than a college sorority house?
The Mongols, for instance in the 13th C. The Great Wall couldn't keep them out.
Because they were already in what we now call China.
More recently, many European powers occupied various choice sites for trading
The key phrase is various choice, and, except for Peking, they were always near the Ocean.
they held Taiwan for 50 years
Oh come on. Since when is Taiwan the mainland?
as well as swathes of Manchuria for years
It was damned expensive, and they were constantly harried by the ChiComs.
only the entry of the Allied forces forced a withdrawal
Say what?
The only China invasion danger right now is that China might cross an international border and invade Taiwan.
Why invade China?
From Taiwan, Okinawa, Japan and the 3 or 4 Carrier Battle Groups that we'd park nearby, any invasion could be easily repelled.
Remember, to invade, "they" have to send troops by ship or air across 50-100 very hostile miles of the Taiwan Straight. If the PLA does try a direct invasion, it's going to get it's ass kicked.
That's why they'll use saber-rattling and diplomatic/political means, instead.
Two rules of war you should never, ever break:
Only when patching is much faster than malware spreading rates can we claim even partial victory.
To hell with patching. Stop using stupid software.
I believe "below" and "down" denote the same direction.
You missed the word "stabilizes".
For god sakes, these are the people who ignore all the warnings on earth but still open pif files just to see whats inside.
The problem isn't that they open pif files. The problem is that their MUA run pif files.
Why? I don't use fscking brain-dead s/w like Outlook.
This reminds me of the old saw:
viola means raped.
According to the 1913 Edition of Webster's Dictionary, viola means:
"An instrument in form and use resembling the violin, but larger, and a fifth lower in compass."
Since "viola" is an Italian word, and French and Italian aren't hugely different, I seriously doubt that "viola" means "raped" in French.
Any kernel revision.
Correct, but it's my understanding that swap files were inefficient before 2.6.
up to date with the only ports exposed ... being ssh, smtp and http
Guess you'd better do a better job configuring your exposed daemons. Or choose better daemons.
The rationale is that it won't get fragmented
dd on a "fresh" partition will make contiguous files that linux 2.6 likes.
this has increased boot times on older computers running w2k
Why boot so often?
But there's a certainly feeling of secureness knowing that half the worms and trojans out there can't get very far without admin rights too.
There's a certainly feeling of secureness knowing that 99.99% the worms and trojans out there can't get very far on Linux, *BSD and OS/X.
right when you think its finally over, the best is exposed and found worthy, yet another difficulty comes up (...). then it all happens again
Man, you need to turn off the Cartoon Network, and go watch ESPN.
My son's teacher spent a lot of time on interesting and creative pojects in science and culture.
Great, fantastic, lovely, I'm so happy your son is creative and culturally sensitive.
But does he know when the US Civil War was? What about the Revolutionary War? Who the 1st President was? What the Articles of Confederation were? Has he memorized his multiplication tables? The names of the 8+1 planets, in order? Can he locate all 50 states and most of the European countries on a map?
Kids have to learn a lot of boring-but-important stuff, and if Tests are a way to force schools back to teaching what they are supposed to be teaching, I'm all for it.
But then, all the public schools here suck, so I'm paying out the ass for parochial school, and I thank $DEITY that my parents paid out their asses to send me to private school.
as opposed to waiting until they are over 40 and trying to find the Any Key.
Gee, I wonder how people learned to build, program and use computers before schools purchased huge quantities of PCs?
It's called "No Child Left Behind"...
That's just down-right ignorant.
Do you really think that Educators only started whining about Feelings, Sensitivity, Self-Esteem and all that other mush-brained left-wing crap on 08-Jan-2002 (which is when W signed NCLB).
I guess there are no diabetic Republicans -- or at least none who don't "deserve diabetes".
Hey, how'd you know that?
he doesn't eat the dog food he sells either.
I should hope he doesn't eat dog food.
Oh, sorry, this is the USA, and Bush is President. We're all so desperately poor and out of work that we have to eat dog food.
cut my fucking knuckle
Fucking knuckle?
Because Bushie says so. He hates our freedom. He wants to put all of us in prison. That's why there's so many BS and secret laws now. Never underestimate the hatred he has for us.
Who the hell is Bushie?
Whoever knowingly alters, destroys, ... tangible object with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence the investigation
A competent attorney should be able to get that charge tossed, because there's no proof that it's gov't property.
even though it's seemed completely obvious that they would be.
You'd think so.
"Unfortunately", Oesterreich (Eastern Reich?) is central Europe, and was occupied by the Sovs at the end of WW2. It is the only country that they voluntarily left before it fell apart. It is my understanding that America side-agreed not to try to get Oesterreich into NATO,
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Hmmm, I din't know that...