The moral of the story is Money Talks. An embargo is toothless if we have to keep buying Iran's oil. Once we can get our oil without them, the embargo starts to bite hard. The mullahs are looking at what happened in Egypt and Tunisia and Syria, and they can do the math. About 60% of their population is under 30. They are young, educated and unemployed, which is the recipe for social unrest and political instability. The sanctions are making an already bad problem much worse. If they have to choose between obtaining nuclear weapons, or regime survival, they will make the obvious choice.
My younger self was an absolute fuckwit, at times. He also managed to last long enough to turn into my older self, who tries to not be too smug about how much he has improved. My younger self also was busy making the mistakes my older self has learned from. As a completely off topic example it took me about 5 years to figure out there were some things I did that women absolutely hated, and another 5 years to figure out that maybe I should stop doing them.
There is not now, nor has there ever been, a shortage of good music. The problem is there is 50 times more bad or just meh-ordinary music. The trick is to find the good stuff in amongst all the crap.
Basically yes, this is how it was explained to me. The animal was herded by Anglo-Saxons, so it kept the Anglo Saxon name - Cow, Swine, Chicken etc. The meat prepared in the kitchen got the Norman French name, because the cooks had to tell their overlords what was for dinner (if they weren't French cooks in the first place) so - Poultry (Poulet), Beef (Boeuf) and Pork (Porc).
"most "mental illness" appears to be an appropriate biological response to environmental and psychological stressors."
You obviously have never known a schizophrenic person. Please tell me how exactly are hallucinations, paranoid delusions and a complete inability to make rational decisions an appropriate biological response to environmental and psychological stressors?
I know everybody loves to bash Walmart, but is really justified? At the risk of greatly oversimplifying, you can help poor people by 1. getting them more money, or 2. making the things they need to buy cost less. Walmart is working very hard at doing thing 2. Do you think Walmart's margins are higher or lower than the retail industry average?
The entropy of the solar system has been increasing since it was formed. What makes you think it hasn't? The existence of life on earth may have decreased entropy in some places but the solar system overall has increased in entropy. You can't look at the earth in isolation when the sun is adding energy to the earth, you have to consider the entire system.
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You have the edited version - I learned "Black Boys.....".
Authentic - A marketing word used to sell blue jeans and spiced rum to tattooed 20 somethings.
Explain. Genuinely curious.
You should hang out with some Koreans some time. Their genetic mutation seems to be 2 parts Irish and 1 part Russian.
One more thought. This is probably the beginning of the end for OPEC.
Er? Citation please. None of the sanctions have been lifted to this point.
The moral of the story is Money Talks. An embargo is toothless if we have to keep buying Iran's oil. Once we can get our oil without them, the embargo starts to bite hard. The mullahs are looking at what happened in Egypt and Tunisia and Syria, and they can do the math. About 60% of their population is under 30. They are young, educated and unemployed, which is the recipe for social unrest and political instability. The sanctions are making an already bad problem much worse. If they have to choose between obtaining nuclear weapons, or regime survival, they will make the obvious choice.
Doogie Hauser SS.
My younger self was an absolute fuckwit, at times. He also managed to last long enough to turn into my older self, who tries to not be too smug about how much he has improved. My younger self also was busy making the mistakes my older self has learned from. As a completely off topic example it took me about 5 years to figure out there were some things I did that women absolutely hated, and another 5 years to figure out that maybe I should stop doing them.
Apparently the most important function of Google Glass is to summon "Internet Tough Guys" to post on Slashdot.
....with a bazooka!!"
"If somebody dares to wear Google Glasses without my permission I will shoot them in the face
There is not now, nor has there ever been, a shortage of good music. The problem is there is 50 times more bad or just meh-ordinary music. The trick is to find the good stuff in amongst all the crap.
Basically yes, this is how it was explained to me. The animal was herded by Anglo-Saxons, so it kept the Anglo Saxon name - Cow, Swine, Chicken etc. The meat prepared in the kitchen got the Norman French name, because the cooks had to tell their overlords what was for dinner (if they weren't French cooks in the first place) so - Poultry (Poulet), Beef (Boeuf) and Pork (Porc).
The software I run most frequently is
1. Firefox
2. AutoCAD
3. Borderlands 2
4. MS office
5. Skyrim
Only one of these will run on Linux. When they day comes that Linux will run all 5 I will happily switch, but for now windows is my only option.
The mods missed the obvious Arthur C Clarke reference. Pretty sad for a Nerd News site.
"most "mental illness" appears to be an appropriate biological response to environmental and psychological stressors."
You obviously have never known a schizophrenic person. Please tell me how exactly are hallucinations, paranoid delusions and a complete inability to make rational decisions an appropriate biological response to environmental and psychological stressors?
Hey good idea! I could probably beat an ancephalic clone of myself at Scrabble.
Amps are current, not resistance. But you knew that, right? The rest is correct.
I know everybody loves to bash Walmart, but is really justified? At the risk of greatly oversimplifying, you can help poor people by 1. getting them more money, or 2. making the things they need to buy cost less. Walmart is working very hard at doing thing 2. Do you think Walmart's margins are higher or lower than the retail industry average?
Cool Story. How does a cell phone jammer stop the camera from recording?
No Mod Points today, so I just say I agree 100%.
Come to Vancouver some time.
The entropy of the solar system has been increasing since it was formed. What makes you think it hasn't? The existence of life on earth may have decreased entropy in some places but the solar system overall has increased in entropy. You can't look at the earth in isolation when the sun is adding energy to the earth, you have to consider the entire system.
Fly the Constellation down its throat and detonate it.
No. In Canada we call them Lotteries.
"how to tell if your girlfriend is the love child of Beelzebub and Cthulu"
Was her name Tina? Because I think I dated he same girl.