Yep, although Japan was committing atrocities throughout Asia, there was no reason for the U.S. to cut off oil shipments, was there? I mean, what would you call something absurd like that? "Sanctions"? Naw. And of course, since incorrect information on the position of the Japanese was sent to Hawaii, it was obviously because FDR *wanted* them to get the wrong information, not because an enemy fleet was on the move and was trying to cover its tracks. Nope, our surveillance satellites should have picked up on that--what's that you say? Oh.
By the way, a link to a geocities site is not a very convincing argument. Whoo-hoo, somebody somewhere took information, pushed it around a bit, came up with a conspiracy theory, and posted it on a free web hosting service.
Heh, sorry, I wasn't very coherent when I was writing that. Of course, I can't guarantee that I'm ever very coherent.
I was trying to make this point: In something like that, why wouldn't church leaders look for divine guidance instead of turning to an ancient pagan philosopher? I was also saying how hard it would be for them to make a change while saving face--look at the Catholic church vs. Galileo. They didn't accept that Galileo was right until what, the 1990s?
So, you're saying that when the heads of the church criticized Copernicus, they were simply saying what Aristotle said? I know it's foolish to think that it would have occurred to them to try something completely off-the-wall like praying for an answer, but since these men were supposed to have a pretty good line to God I kind of want to think that they would have. Of course, they would continue to hold their position until evidence against the centricity of the Earth became overwhelming--they would then say that they had a divine revelation or whatever (or at the next change in power--new Pope, whatever--they could make the change) and God revealed that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Wow, big surprise!
Odd nano user? Yes, I guess they would have to be odd to use an editor which keeps a little dummy-bar at the bottom of your session forever. I know, there's probably a way to turn this off, and I often use nano to change that one character in a file, but who wants to use an editor whose command list looks short enough to fit on a single printout page? Besides, everyone knows EMACS is better.
VAXen haven't completely gone out of use yet, you know. Here at RIT, the best way to get registered for courses is by logging into a VAX, and all the grade/course information seems to be run on VAX systems.
Strangelove: No sir...
(Right arm rolls his wheelchair backwards.)
Strangelove: Excuse me.
(Struggles with wayward right arm, ultimately subduing it with a beating from his left.)
Strangelove: Also when... when they go down into the mine everyone would still be alive. There would be no shocking memories, and the prevailing emotion will be one of nostalgia for those left behind, combined with a spirit of bold curiosity for the adventure ahead! Ahhhh!
(Right arm reflexes into Nazi salute)
"The technology of the signal", eh? Look, a signal is a signal. A radio wave is a radio wave--it is not also magically a sandwich. If we receive something, whatever it does will be done through our technology. If these ETs have something that allows them to view us instantaneously and manipulate matter over here, they won't be worrying about radio signals, and we'll have bigger problems anyway.
It's okay to think outside the box, just don't think outside of the laws of physics.
Depending on the window manager, you are often able to simply slam the mouse into the corner to move diagonally. I'm pretty sure it works on Afterstep, FVWM, and Enlightenment.
Yeah. I've had this monitor for over three years now and it is still working as well as the day I bought it--when it finally gives up the ghost, I'll have had my money's worth. Maybe by then LCDs will be cheap enough that I'll consider getting one of them. Currently, I'm not willing to spend $200+ for a 17" LCD when I can get a 19" CRT for around $100--I'm a college student, gotta save the money. Maybe RIT will throw out some nice monitors one of these days...
So, you're saying that because one European guy came up with a new application for the existing Internet, the UN should now have control over DNS? This makes sense HOW?
And were you claiming that the U.S. is saying "No, you can't make your own internal networks! We came up with the Internet, and it's our IP, so you can't use it if we don't say OK"? That's pretty ridiculous. As dozens of other posters have said, any country is free to make their own network and cripple themselves by disconnecting from the Internet.
History has shown us that a Communist's promises aren't worth the paper they're written on. Read Heinlein's "'Pravda' Means 'Truth'" for an American's view of the inside of a Communist state, and see why we don't trust Communists. Myself, I hate them.
I chose China because we were discussing percentage of prisoners. With the largest population in the world, China should have a high percentage of the world's prisoners--IF they don't just pop all of their troublemakers, as I suggested that they might. Since Communist countries have a history of lying about damn near everything ("A Communist problem isn't worth the paper it's written on), so I figure that there could be even higher capital punishment than they let on. Ta-da, logic!
Speaking as an American, I go to Canada for the beer.
Fscking traitor
Hey, plenty of college students go up to Canada for beer because they can legally buy and drink it there. No traitorous activity, just a student's desire for booze.
Unfortunately, counteracting natural selection is often seen as a duty of government--they're saving the people without adequate survival skills from themselves.
See the signature--There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
With only five percent of the world's people, the U.S. accounts for 25 percent of the planet's prisoners - fully half of them Black. One out of eight prisoners on Earth is African American.
With regards to the U.S. having 25% of the world's prison population, could that be due in part to a stronger justice system and police force, and the fact that (unlike some nations) we don't simply shoot troublemakers in the head? Besides, how many prisoners would China report? They want to sound like the perfect Communist state, and faking prison numbers is a good way to start:-)
I don't think you should expect people to abandon their culture entirely. Every culture has good aspects and bad aspects, if you mix two together, I think the bad ones will die out and be replaced by the good ones. In the case of mexicans, I can say that I am very happy to have the food (I know it's Tex-Mex, again this is an example of where mixing two cultures results in a one better than either of the two). So if you're afraid of your culture being replaced, bear in mind that if that happens it will be replaced with a better one.
True, all Americans enjoy the results of dozens of imported cultures that have slowly mixed together. However, there is a limit to how much you should cling to your parent culture. Speaking only Spanish, flying a Mexican flag outside your house, hating all "gringos", and constantly talking about how much better Mexico was and how much you want to go back are not the signs of someone adjusting to American culture, especially after he/she has been here for 5-10 years. This is not the norm, far from it. However, I have seen plenty of examples of this kind of behavior while growing up in a small farming community--it is incredibly aggravating. I expect German immigrants to eat brautwurst a lot; I do not expect them to drive 120mph on freeways because "Das ist, wie es auf dem Autobahn ist" ("That's how it is on the Autobahn", in Babelfish German).
I can not count how many times I have driven through the "projects" in America and seen every single window with a DirectTV satellite and cars costing most likely 10x their annual salary with rims costing even more.
I've seen this as well, out in the country. People are living in single-wide trailers built in about 1975, often with a plywood expansion built onto one side. These same people often have little or no food money by the time the next paycheck is nearing. Why? Because almost everything is spent on satellite TV, DVDs, new stereos, XBoxes, and the payment for the 2006 Ford pickup sitting in the driveway, leaving only a small margin for food and other essentials. It is likely these people will still be living in the same trailer (just more run-down) in ten years, with next to no money in the bank. By the time they reach retirement, they may have wised up a bit and put aside some cash, but otherwise they will still be living in a tiny, dirty house and will have to survive on Social Security checks.
This kind of behavior is one of the reasons Social Security is mandatory--so many people won't bother to put away anything voluntarily that they would all starve if Mama Fed didn't scoop up some every month to redistribute later. I wouldn't mind private SS-type services for myself (and not having to pay the gov't as a result), but people like this are a barrier to privatization; if private Social Security was an option, most people would choose it and simply not do anything, then starve in 30 years.
General "Buck" Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
Ambassador de Sadesky: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.
Yeah, I grew up a few miles away from an abandoned Minuteman emplacement, and yes, plenty of people did sneak inside of it. I never did, because by the time I heard about it the landowner and the cops were getting pretty strict about it, and I believe the entrances had finally been shut.
No, don't give the gun away. A good shotgun makes an excellent club after you've expended all of the ammunition. Of course, if you happen to find a mace or something, use that *after* shooting as many zombies as possible... don't want to come too close to those creeps.
I think just about everybody can handle basic English characters. The same cannot be said about Russian or Japanese. People are not going to want to fiddle with different character sets when there are plenty of TLDs that work for ALL computers.
Heh, you kind of answered your own question, anyway. Slashcode eats foreign charsets; that alone could be a pretty decent barrier to the adoption of different TLDs.
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Yep, although Japan was committing atrocities throughout Asia, there was no reason for the U.S. to cut off oil shipments, was there? I mean, what would you call something absurd like that? "Sanctions"? Naw. And of course, since incorrect information on the position of the Japanese was sent to Hawaii, it was obviously because FDR *wanted* them to get the wrong information, not because an enemy fleet was on the move and was trying to cover its tracks. Nope, our surveillance satellites should have picked up on that--what's that you say? Oh.
By the way, a link to a geocities site is not a very convincing argument. Whoo-hoo, somebody somewhere took information, pushed it around a bit, came up with a conspiracy theory, and posted it on a free web hosting service.
MOD+ parent UP! That is a great quick-n-dirty photoshop comrade.
It was, especially considering how he didn't use photoshop ;-)
Good image, though.
Heh, sorry, I wasn't very coherent when I was writing that. Of course, I can't guarantee that I'm ever very coherent.
I was trying to make this point: In something like that, why wouldn't church leaders look for divine guidance instead of turning to an ancient pagan philosopher? I was also saying how hard it would be for them to make a change while saving face--look at the Catholic church vs. Galileo. They didn't accept that Galileo was right until what, the 1990s?
Sorry for the confusion.
So, you're saying that when the heads of the church criticized Copernicus, they were simply saying what Aristotle said? I know it's foolish to think that it would have occurred to them to try something completely off-the-wall like praying for an answer, but since these men were supposed to have a pretty good line to God I kind of want to think that they would have. Of course, they would continue to hold their position until evidence against the centricity of the Earth became overwhelming--they would then say that they had a divine revelation or whatever (or at the next change in power--new Pope, whatever--they could make the change) and God revealed that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Wow, big surprise!
Odd nano user? Yes, I guess they would have to be odd to use an editor which keeps a little dummy-bar at the bottom of your session forever. I know, there's probably a way to turn this off, and I often use nano to change that one character in a file, but who wants to use an editor whose command list looks short enough to fit on a single printout page? Besides, everyone knows EMACS is better.
VAXen haven't completely gone out of use yet, you know. Here at RIT, the best way to get registered for courses is by logging into a VAX, and all the grade/course information seems to be run on VAX systems.
Strangelove: No sir...
(Right arm rolls his wheelchair backwards.)
Strangelove: Excuse me.
(Struggles with wayward right arm, ultimately subduing it with a beating from his left.)
Strangelove: Also when... when they go down into the mine everyone would still be alive. There would be no shocking memories, and the prevailing emotion will be one of nostalgia for those left behind, combined with a spirit of bold curiosity for the adventure ahead! Ahhhh!
(Right arm reflexes into Nazi salute)
CowboyNeal stole my global warming
Allow me to summarize this type of post, which seems to occur on Slashdot often:
OMG U.S. STUPID!!!!1
THEY IGNORE TEH KYOTO AND WE WILL ALL DROWN IN GLOBAL WARMING!
(+2, Insightful)
"The technology of the signal", eh? Look, a signal is a signal. A radio wave is a radio wave--it is not also magically a sandwich. If we receive something, whatever it does will be done through our technology. If these ETs have something that allows them to view us instantaneously and manipulate matter over here, they won't be worrying about radio signals, and we'll have bigger problems anyway.
It's okay to think outside the box, just don't think outside of the laws of physics.
Depending on the window manager, you are often able to simply slam the mouse into the corner to move diagonally. I'm pretty sure it works on Afterstep, FVWM, and Enlightenment.
Yeah. I've had this monitor for over three years now and it is still working as well as the day I bought it--when it finally gives up the ghost, I'll have had my money's worth. Maybe by then LCDs will be cheap enough that I'll consider getting one of them. Currently, I'm not willing to spend $200+ for a 17" LCD when I can get a 19" CRT for around $100--I'm a college student, gotta save the money. Maybe RIT will throw out some nice monitors one of these days...
I use a screensaver to lock my computer when I'm away--XScreensaver does the job nicely.
So, you're saying that because one European guy came up with a new application for the existing Internet, the UN should now have control over DNS? This makes sense HOW?
And were you claiming that the U.S. is saying "No, you can't make your own internal networks! We came up with the Internet, and it's our IP, so you can't use it if we don't say OK"? That's pretty ridiculous. As dozens of other posters have said, any country is free to make their own network and cripple themselves by disconnecting from the Internet.
History has shown us that a Communist's promises aren't worth the paper they're written on. Read Heinlein's "'Pravda' Means 'Truth'" for an American's view of the inside of a Communist state, and see why we don't trust Communists. Myself, I hate them.
I chose China because we were discussing percentage of prisoners. With the largest population in the world, China should have a high percentage of the world's prisoners--IF they don't just pop all of their troublemakers, as I suggested that they might. Since Communist countries have a history of lying about damn near everything ("A Communist problem isn't worth the paper it's written on), so I figure that there could be even higher capital punishment than they let on. Ta-da, logic!
Speaking as an American, I go to Canada for the beer.
Fscking traitor
Hey, plenty of college students go up to Canada for beer because they can legally buy and drink it there. No traitorous activity, just a student's desire for booze.
Unfortunately, counteracting natural selection is often seen as a duty of government--they're saving the people without adequate survival skills from themselves.
See the signature--There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
With only five percent of the world's people, the U.S. accounts for 25 percent of the planet's prisoners - fully half of them Black. One out of eight prisoners on Earth is African American.
With regards to the U.S. having 25% of the world's prison population, could that be due in part to a stronger justice system and police force, and the fact that (unlike some nations) we don't simply shoot troublemakers in the head? Besides, how many prisoners would China report? They want to sound like the perfect Communist state, and faking prison numbers is a good way to start :-)
I don't think you should expect people to abandon their culture entirely. Every culture has good aspects and bad aspects, if you mix two together, I think the bad ones will die out and be replaced by the good ones. In the case of mexicans, I can say that I am very happy to have the food (I know it's Tex-Mex, again this is an example of where mixing two cultures results in a one better than either of the two). So if you're afraid of your culture being replaced, bear in mind that if that happens it will be replaced with a better one.
True, all Americans enjoy the results of dozens of imported cultures that have slowly mixed together. However, there is a limit to how much you should cling to your parent culture. Speaking only Spanish, flying a Mexican flag outside your house, hating all "gringos", and constantly talking about how much better Mexico was and how much you want to go back are not the signs of someone adjusting to American culture, especially after he/she has been here for 5-10 years. This is not the norm, far from it. However, I have seen plenty of examples of this kind of behavior while growing up in a small farming community--it is incredibly aggravating. I expect German immigrants to eat brautwurst a lot; I do not expect them to drive 120mph on freeways because "Das ist, wie es auf dem Autobahn ist" ("That's how it is on the Autobahn", in Babelfish German).
I can not count how many times I have driven through the "projects" in America and seen every single window with a DirectTV satellite and cars costing most likely 10x their annual salary with rims costing even more.
I've seen this as well, out in the country. People are living in single-wide trailers built in about 1975, often with a plywood expansion built onto one side. These same people often have little or no food money by the time the next paycheck is nearing. Why? Because almost everything is spent on satellite TV, DVDs, new stereos, XBoxes, and the payment for the 2006 Ford pickup sitting in the driveway, leaving only a small margin for food and other essentials. It is likely these people will still be living in the same trailer (just more run-down) in ten years, with next to no money in the bank. By the time they reach retirement, they may have wised up a bit and put aside some cash, but otherwise they will still be living in a tiny, dirty house and will have to survive on Social Security checks.
This kind of behavior is one of the reasons Social Security is mandatory--so many people won't bother to put away anything voluntarily that they would all starve if Mama Fed didn't scoop up some every month to redistribute later. I wouldn't mind private SS-type services for myself (and not having to pay the gov't as a result), but people like this are a barrier to privatization; if private Social Security was an option, most people would choose it and simply not do anything, then starve in 30 years.
General "Buck" Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
Ambassador de Sadesky: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.
Yeah, I grew up a few miles away from an abandoned Minuteman emplacement, and yes, plenty of people did sneak inside of it. I never did, because by the time I heard about it the landowner and the cops were getting pretty strict about it, and I believe the entrances had finally been shut.
No, don't give the gun away. A good shotgun makes an excellent club after you've expended all of the ammunition. Of course, if you happen to find a mace or something, use that *after* shooting as many zombies as possible... don't want to come too close to those creeps.
I think just about everybody can handle basic English characters. The same cannot be said about Russian or Japanese. People are not going to want to fiddle with different character sets when there are plenty of TLDs that work for ALL computers.
Heh, you kind of answered your own question, anyway. Slashcode eats foreign charsets; that alone could be a pretty decent barrier to the adoption of different TLDs.