Well, what you do isn't music anyway, so it doesn't matter. Real music is done with Guitars, it's lauder than an atom bomb, more aggressive than a monkey with rabies, and it's called fucking metal.
What you do is not music, it's just a bunch of gay noises made on a computer.
Yes, of course, that doesn't mean that Noble isn't a piece of crap, and that she's not doing all of this for political reasons too.
But I like to analyse this from another POV:
The state should always act within the law. When the state shows that it can act outside the law, and do what they please with anyone, company or individual, there is no more state, just another mercenary.
Actually, I've been in a plant that reuses bottles (customer of mine). The process is the same, since all bottles, new or used are sterilized at high temperatures, washed, and checked for defects. It literally costs nothing. And for those that don't bother recycling, or when you want to buy a bottle and you don't have an empty bottle, you just pay the price, and the bottle gets recycled anyway (basically, since those bottles are well paid, people will pick them up in the streets and allow them to follow their natural cycle, just like with cardboard or aluminum).
CDs/DVDs are not an issue because they are small enough, and you rarely throw away old software, it's small enough to keep. Anyway, if it becomes an issue, we have the internet to fix that (again, tax the hell out of boxed software and promote downloads).
Software doesn't take up space in a landfill, but all the computers that people throw away every time that microsoft publishes a new windows version that doesn't run in less than a CRAY, does.
First, I didn't propose "enforcing" any of this things. Just incentively them through a simple reward/punish scheme. If you comply with this rules, you get tax reductions. If you don't, you pay extra taxes.
This doesn't affect Free Software at all since:
a) Free operating systems usually run better and faster on older hardware across more platforms. b) It's not sold, and therefore no taxes are paid.
Re 1st) We currently do this in Argentina for beer bottles. It was done for every single bottle, including Coca Cola bottles until the 80's. It worked just fine. It's simple: people need to bring an empty bottle to get a new full bottle, otherwise they get charged extra. The same trucks that deliver new bottles take the empty ones back instead of just returning empty to the distribution center. The bottles are washed and reused. Come on, this was just done massively only 20 years ago. Have we really forgotten? If stupid kids hurt themselves, I am a happy guy. Evolution works.
2nd) 4th) 6th) People is stupid is not a good excuse. That is the very same thing that brought us here, and that's what we are trying to fix.
3rd) I take out my trash in supermarket bags every single day. I just use two of them. Ain't that hard.
Re: Re 1: It was done for ages. Here in Argentina it is currently done for Beer bottles, massively. Coke used to do it. You return the bottles to any store, and they are brought back in the same truck that brings the new filled bottles to the store. Those trucks return empty to the distribution center anyway, may as well return with a cargo.
Re: Re 3: It's not that hard to enforce for software. Everytime microsoft makes a new version, people throw away computers massively. Just let them know that if their new version doesn't run reasonably well on 5 years old hardware, they'll get a huge extra tax.
Re: Re 5: I take out my garbage every day, in the same shitty bags the supermarket gives me.
And, don't get me wrong, I'm no tree-hugger. It's just that where I live (Argentina) we still maintain a more natural life. We do not buy that much plastic and shit, and not all of our food comes packaged. 70% of our food is meat and vegetables, and you just go to a "carniceria" to buy meat, or to a "verduleria" to buy vegetables (those stores might be within a supermarket or not), and you mostly eat natural food. The meat is cut right in front of you, and it's usually from a recently killed animal. You buy fresh vegetables that are produced nearby (most cities are surrounded by production areas). That cuts down on packaging and other crap at least 50% (comparing to other places where bubble wrapped tomatoes and well-packaged, ready-to-serve burgers seem to be the norm). Here, you can get the shitty plastic coca cola bottles, but you can also get the hard-plastic recyclable ones (at some stores only, not that widespread). Beer certainly uses recyclable bottles, and you actually bring your old bottle to the store to get the new one, otherwise you get charged the cost of the extra bottle. It's really not that hard. 90% of the trash we produce every day wasn't produced 100 years ago. We just need to cut the shit and go back to more natural ways of doing things (without necessarily affecting our quality of life, or going back to the stone age as many people would imply). Most of the things we do, we do unnecessarily. For example, I have never, ever bought food for my dog. We just overcook and he eats whatever we eat. He is 16 years old and awesomely healthy. During the last 50 years we have been cheated into buying a lot of bubble wrapped crap that we don't really need, and when you look back and realize that you actually live better without microwave dinners and plastic wrapped convenient shit, you start wondering just why are we doing things like this lately.
You are absolutely right. Sadly, Iran is not crazy at all, and it won't happened.
But if they did go batshit insane and drop a few nukes on Israel, I would be a very happy guy.
Anyway, getting back to this thread:
The only country in the world that has ever used a nuclear weapon (outside of nuclear tests/practices) is the united states. And it's the world's biggest holder of nuclear power. Why is it a problem that Iran gets a nuclear weapon, when we know the US has thousands, and they are not being audited at all?
Absolutely. The US averages one major war every 20 years. That accounts for over 50% of all wars in the last 200 years.
In the last two centuries, the US has been there in 90% of all insurrections, coup d'etats and minning assassinations.
The deal is, that's where the US gets its power from. The US has no heavy industry, agriculture, mining, or any other significant export. Their only exports are shitty movies and bullets.
How is it then that such a country is the most powerful and rich in the world? Well, first, it was slavery. Then, slavery was outsourced. The US needs to keep its nose in other country's affairs to assure the availability of unstable political and social situations, that produce poverty (cheap labor), wars, and insurrections. In order to support its current position, the US needs half of the world in poverty (provides cheap labor), 10% of the world in war (allows the politicians to move the money earned towards their friends at Lockheed Martin and other companies), and another 10% in unstable situations (civil war) (in order to fix the oil prices).
That's roughly their strategy, and it'll continue to be that way for a long time. Voting changes nothing.
1st) Impose a ban on disposable plastic bottles, forcing every company (I'm looking at you Coca Cola) to use either glass or hard plastic, reusable bottles. 2nd) Define a limit on packaging, that is a ratio of Product size/weight vs. packaging size/rate. If companies go over that limit, you make them pay through the nose for it. 3rd) New law mandating all technology companies to provide a 5 year warranty on all their products, and all software/hardware companies to provide at least 5 years of backward compatibility and usefulness on all their systems. That'll bring back quality hardware, raise prices a little bit, and extend hardware's lifetime 10x. 4rd) Ban all the beautiful but unrecyclable plasic+cardboard boxes, and bring back the good old brown cardboard. 5th) Rise the price of trash bags (through a special tax) to 2 dollars per bag. That'll keep people happily re-using all of those plastic bags they get every time they buy something to take out their trash.
Sorry to reply to myself, but I forgot about something:
The link in the article is wrong. Fibertel's webpage is fibertel.com.ar. Right now, when you enter the homepage, there is a clickthrough message before reaching the index that says they are going to continue providing their service, and that they are doing everything they can (legally) to continue providing their service.
So, allow me to provide a little bit more information on this subject.
Our current government has that schizophrenic touch that Bush had. Their policy is the same that Bush had: Helping their corporate friends, pushing an agenda.
Clarin is the largest spanish newspaper in the world. That includes all of Latin America + Spain. The Clarin Group, the holding behind the newspaper, also owns several other newspapers, several TV channels, publishing companies, and a lot of other companies in media and communications. It's one of the largest companies in South America, and it has huge worldwide influences.
They have been in a fight for market penetration and control of the media with Telefonica for 2 decades. Our former President Nestor Kirchner, Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations and husband of our current president, had overwhelming support from Clarin, they actually helped him to achieve the presidency. Later, their relationships got a lot more tense when Nestor Kirchner did a few deals with Telefonica. Eventually, Clarin had withdrawn thoverhwellmingeir support, and had became his number one public enemy.
Now, Nestor's wife (Cristina) is our president. Just like him, she's a fucking cunt, with a lot of personal interests that she has no moral issues pushing all the time, and a lot of friends to help out. Just like bush, they had interests in Oil companies, and in several big industries, and also in real estate. Pushing their own business is their only interest.
So, this is just a move to pressure the Clarin group. This is a way to silence the bad publicity they've been getting from Clarin lately. It's a douchebag move.
The worst thing about this is, Fibertel was owned by Cablevision. Later, with the approval of Nestor Kirchner, Clarin, through one of their subsidiaries (Multicanal: The Argentinian Comcast) bought Cablevision and therefore Fibertel. Now the government claims that data transmission licenses are nontransferable, and that therefore Fibertel is operating illegally. Also, Clarin owns almost 300 different licenses from several companies they have acquired throughout the years. That is highly irregular, and the government is using that as an excuse too.
The worst thing here is that there are not many alternatives in here where it comes to Internet access.
In Buenos Aires (Argentina's Capital City) and nearby cities (Metropolitan Area) there are several providers, such as iplan, fibertel, telefonica, telecom, telmex, telecentro, and others. In the rest of the country, the options are much more limited. There is surely one DSL provider (Either Telefonica's Speedy or Telecom's Arnet, and in most places there is also a cablemodem provider (Fibertel), a Wimax provider (Telmex), and some small local services, usually cooperatives or small wireless companies. And that's all. Telefonica sucks big time, both technically and commercially, and Fibertel is the only decent alternative, both technically and economically.
You can get a decent 3MB cablemodem from Fibertel for ~40 dollars (160 pesos).
Of course, Fibertel is not going to die. They are either going to appeal and win (or at least delay this for years to come), or sell the whole infrastructure to someone. Anyway, this is just the government reminding us that it can fuck with us whenever it wants.
I agree about the bears. Same thing about dogs, but nobody complains that you have pet dogs, because it's implied that you'll keep feeding them. If you abandon your pets, that's animal cruelty and a whole different crime in and on itself. The reason this guys can't feed the bears anymore is because they are being dishonestly prosecuted for doing something that should be perfectly legal.
On the other hand, all cops are jerks. Why do you think they became cops in the first place? Same thing with the army. People become cops/marines because they are jerks, because they are murderers, and because they want power/a gun. Don't come to me with the 'college money' bullshit excuse. If you want college money, do as Stanhope suggests, and suck a dick. You get college money and you never even have to abandon west Virginia.
They are jerks that need power, and have an urge to murder, so they make a deal with a different kind of jerk: the right wing motherfuckers that want to control the population so that they can keep going to the bank.
There is no other plausible explanation. This is what is actually going on. Sure, they'll say they want to 'help the community', and that they want to 'serve their country'. Bullshit, they are just worried about the size of their dicks, so they need to make it up with a big gun and a license to kill.
Actually, don't blame America, blame the United States of America. America is a beautiful continent, and all Canadians are as American as all Peruvians and all Cubans, and America had nothing to do with this.
The culprit is the USA, and it's stupid policies, including the way they put their nose in other countries affairs.
So, a few guys are just growing pot, smoking and selling all day, they take animals for their protection, the animals are treated well, they are well fed, and neither the animals nor the people are a danger to anyone.
So, the cops come in, put the guys in jail, burn the crops, and murder the animals. And we are somehow supposed to think that the cops are the good guys?
No, but if the UK suddenly changed it's name to "The United Kingdoms of Europe", starting calling itself "Europe" and it's citizens "Europeans", and silently pretended that they came up with it, and that the rest of the continent is called "The Europas", then I would be fucking pissed off too.
That is EXACTLY what the US did with the name America.
They named all of this beautiful continent "America" after an Italian explorer that was the first to make reliable maps of the region (He was called Amerigo Vespucci).
"America" refered to ALL of the western hemisphere, both North and South America.
Ask anyone in South America, we all consider ourselves "Americans". There are countless songs and other cultural productions, created between April 25 of 1507 - August 17 2010 in South America that refer to its inhabitants as "Americans". Everything from Folk songs written 450 years ago, to metal songs written yesterday.
Your country stole the name, and made you all believe that they came up with it.
Why do you think your country is named the united states OF America? Because it is a bunch of states that are within a bigger place called America. That's fucking why.
Sorry to replay not to the actual content of your post, but, I just found something amazing on your post.
From your post, I understand you live in the USA. And yet, you don't use the awesomely egomaniac expression "American" to refer to yourself while disregarding the fact that America is a much bigger continent than just your country. I keep complaining about it, but it's so hard to get people from the US to open their mind and understand that they are not the center of the world that I just let it go many times.
So, USAian. It does sound weird, but it's better than American. I personally use US citizen, spanish (Estadounidense), or just Yankee, for lack of a better term. The United States is the only country in the world that doesn't have a proper demonym in its own official language, but it does in others (i.e: Spanish, French).
The US is the one that has no reason to be over there. The US is the one interfering with foreign sovereign nations.
You are invaders. No different from Atila, except for the fact that Atila was in a time when conquering other nations was the norm, and the US is a barbaric nation from the past in more modern and civilized times.
And the country that is getting invaded is somehow the 'bad guy'?
Come on.
All I can say is: The rest of the world rejoices every time one of your soldiers die.
It is in fact the main codec used in most of my Asterisk systems. The implementation is 100% Free Software. Is it patent-free? No. But nobody has sued anybody so far, mainly because the big guys don't see its use in VoIP as a threat to their big-ass systems used in GSM networks. Now, this might be a different situation.
NEARLY. NEARLY. They said NEARLY every person with Alzheimer's tested positive. If NEARLY every person develops the characteristics you are testing for, NEARLY ALL ALL. NEARLY 100%. That means they are getting FALSE NEGATIVES.
On the other hand, out of the people tested, many were POSITIVE, but we don't yet know if they are going to have Alzheimer's or not. So, we MIGHT HAVE FALSE POSITIVES.
That is exactly what my post said.
Don't get me wrong, a technique to easily prove for a hard to detect and identify disease, that has a low rate of false positives/negatives is still AWESOME. But it's not 100% effective, which is what the article claimed.
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Well, what you do isn't music anyway, so it doesn't matter. Real music is done with Guitars, it's lauder than an atom bomb, more aggressive than a monkey with rabies, and it's called fucking metal.
What you do is not music, it's just a bunch of gay noises made on a computer.
How do you say soap in yiddish? What about oven?
Yes, of course, that doesn't mean that Noble isn't a piece of crap, and that she's not doing all of this for political reasons too.
But I like to analyse this from another POV:
The state should always act within the law. When the state shows that it can act outside the law, and do what they please with anyone, company or individual, there is no more state, just another mercenary.
Actually, I've been in a plant that reuses bottles (customer of mine). The process is the same, since all bottles, new or used are sterilized at high temperatures, washed, and checked for defects. It literally costs nothing. And for those that don't bother recycling, or when you want to buy a bottle and you don't have an empty bottle, you just pay the price, and the bottle gets recycled anyway (basically, since those bottles are well paid, people will pick them up in the streets and allow them to follow their natural cycle, just like with cardboard or aluminum).
2 & 5 cover the box/wrapping issue.
CDs/DVDs are not an issue because they are small enough, and you rarely throw away old software, it's small enough to keep. Anyway, if it becomes an issue, we have the internet to fix that (again, tax the hell out of boxed software and promote downloads).
Software doesn't take up space in a landfill, but all the computers that people throw away every time that microsoft publishes a new windows version that doesn't run in less than a CRAY, does.
First, I didn't propose "enforcing" any of this things. Just incentively them through a simple reward/punish scheme. If you comply with this rules, you get tax reductions. If you don't, you pay extra taxes.
This doesn't affect Free Software at all since:
a) Free operating systems usually run better and faster on older hardware across more platforms.
b) It's not sold, and therefore no taxes are paid.
Re 1st) We currently do this in Argentina for beer bottles. It was done for every single bottle, including Coca Cola bottles until the 80's. It worked just fine. It's simple: people need to bring an empty bottle to get a new full bottle, otherwise they get charged extra. The same trucks that deliver new bottles take the empty ones back instead of just returning empty to the distribution center. The bottles are washed and reused. Come on, this was just done massively only 20 years ago. Have we really forgotten? If stupid kids hurt themselves, I am a happy guy. Evolution works.
2nd) 4th) 6th) People is stupid is not a good excuse. That is the very same thing that brought us here, and that's what we are trying to fix.
3rd) I take out my trash in supermarket bags every single day. I just use two of them. Ain't that hard.
Thank you.
Re: Re 1: It was done for ages. Here in Argentina it is currently done for Beer bottles, massively. Coke used to do it. You return the bottles to any store, and they are brought back in the same truck that brings the new filled bottles to the store. Those trucks return empty to the distribution center anyway, may as well return with a cargo.
Re: Re 3: It's not that hard to enforce for software. Everytime microsoft makes a new version, people throw away computers massively. Just let them know that if their new version doesn't run reasonably well on 5 years old hardware, they'll get a huge extra tax.
Re: Re 5: I take out my garbage every day, in the same shitty bags the supermarket gives me.
And, don't get me wrong, I'm no tree-hugger. It's just that where I live (Argentina) we still maintain a more natural life. We do not buy that much plastic and shit, and not all of our food comes packaged. 70% of our food is meat and vegetables, and you just go to a "carniceria" to buy meat, or to a "verduleria" to buy vegetables (those stores might be within a supermarket or not), and you mostly eat natural food. The meat is cut right in front of you, and it's usually from a recently killed animal. You buy fresh vegetables that are produced nearby (most cities are surrounded by production areas).
That cuts down on packaging and other crap at least 50% (comparing to other places where bubble wrapped tomatoes and well-packaged, ready-to-serve burgers seem to be the norm). Here, you can get the shitty plastic coca cola bottles, but you can also get the hard-plastic recyclable ones (at some stores only, not that widespread). Beer certainly uses recyclable bottles, and you actually bring your old bottle to the store to get the new one, otherwise you get charged the cost of the extra bottle. It's really not that hard. 90% of the trash we produce every day wasn't produced 100 years ago. We just need to cut the shit and go back to more natural ways of doing things (without necessarily affecting our quality of life, or going back to the stone age as many people would imply). Most of the things we do, we do unnecessarily. For example, I have never, ever bought food for my dog. We just overcook and he eats whatever we eat. He is 16 years old and awesomely healthy. During the last 50 years we have been cheated into buying a lot of bubble wrapped crap that we don't really need, and when you look back and realize that you actually live better without microwave dinners and plastic wrapped convenient shit, you start wondering just why are we doing things like this lately.
I will get moded down for this, but I don't care.
You are absolutely right. Sadly, Iran is not crazy at all, and it won't happened.
But if they did go batshit insane and drop a few nukes on Israel, I would be a very happy guy.
Anyway, getting back to this thread:
The only country in the world that has ever used a nuclear weapon (outside of nuclear tests/practices) is the united states. And it's the world's biggest holder of nuclear power. Why is it a problem that Iran gets a nuclear weapon, when we know the US has thousands, and they are not being audited at all?
Absolutely. The US averages one major war every 20 years. That accounts for over 50% of all wars in the last 200 years.
In the last two centuries, the US has been there in 90% of all insurrections, coup d'etats and minning assassinations.
The deal is, that's where the US gets its power from. The US has no heavy industry, agriculture, mining, or any other significant export. Their only exports are shitty movies and bullets.
How is it then that such a country is the most powerful and rich in the world? Well, first, it was slavery. Then, slavery was outsourced. The US needs to keep its nose in other country's affairs to assure the availability of unstable political and social situations, that produce poverty (cheap labor), wars, and insurrections. In order to support its current position, the US needs half of the world in poverty (provides cheap labor), 10% of the world in war (allows the politicians to move the money earned towards their friends at Lockheed Martin and other companies), and another 10% in unstable situations (civil war) (in order to fix the oil prices).
That's roughly their strategy, and it'll continue to be that way for a long time. Voting changes nothing.
The people you know in Afghanistan ... you mean the marines that are blatantly murdering kids over there?
I hope they all get tortured to death with a giant steel dildo.
But no one is willing to do it.
1st) Impose a ban on disposable plastic bottles, forcing every company (I'm looking at you Coca Cola) to use either glass or hard plastic, reusable bottles.
2nd) Define a limit on packaging, that is a ratio of Product size/weight vs. packaging size/rate. If companies go over that limit, you make them pay through the nose for it.
3rd) New law mandating all technology companies to provide a 5 year warranty on all their products, and all software/hardware companies to provide at least 5 years of backward compatibility and usefulness on all their systems. That'll bring back quality hardware, raise prices a little bit, and extend hardware's lifetime 10x.
4rd) Ban all the beautiful but unrecyclable plasic+cardboard boxes, and bring back the good old brown cardboard.
5th) Rise the price of trash bags (through a special tax) to 2 dollars per bag. That'll keep people happily re-using all of those plastic bags they get every time they buy something to take out their trash.
Speedy silently passes all web traffic through a transparent proxy. The service is absolutely unstable.
Fibertel sucks in many ways, but it's still better than the alternatives.
Sorry to reply to myself, but I forgot about something:
The link in the article is wrong. Fibertel's webpage is fibertel.com.ar. Right now, when you enter the homepage, there is a clickthrough message before reaching the index that says they are going to continue providing their service, and that they are doing everything they can (legally) to continue providing their service.
So, allow me to provide a little bit more information on this subject.
Our current government has that schizophrenic touch that Bush had. Their policy is the same that Bush had: Helping their corporate friends, pushing an agenda.
Clarin is the largest spanish newspaper in the world. That includes all of Latin America + Spain. The Clarin Group, the holding behind the newspaper, also owns several other newspapers, several TV channels, publishing companies, and a lot of other companies in media and communications. It's one of the largest companies in South America, and it has huge worldwide influences.
They have been in a fight for market penetration and control of the media with Telefonica for 2 decades. Our former President Nestor Kirchner, Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations and husband of our current president, had overwhelming support from Clarin, they actually helped him to achieve the presidency. Later, their relationships got a lot more tense when Nestor Kirchner did a few deals with Telefonica. Eventually, Clarin had withdrawn thoverhwellmingeir support, and had became his number one public enemy.
Now, Nestor's wife (Cristina) is our president. Just like him, she's a fucking cunt, with a lot of personal interests that she has no moral issues pushing all the time, and a lot of friends to help out. Just like bush, they had interests in Oil companies, and in several big industries, and also in real estate. Pushing their own business is their only interest.
So, this is just a move to pressure the Clarin group. This is a way to silence the bad publicity they've been getting from Clarin lately. It's a douchebag move.
The worst thing about this is, Fibertel was owned by Cablevision. Later, with the approval of Nestor Kirchner, Clarin, through one of their subsidiaries (Multicanal: The Argentinian Comcast) bought Cablevision and therefore Fibertel. Now the government claims that data transmission licenses are nontransferable, and that therefore Fibertel is operating illegally. Also, Clarin owns almost 300 different licenses from several companies they have acquired throughout the years. That is highly irregular, and the government is using that as an excuse too.
The worst thing here is that there are not many alternatives in here where it comes to Internet access.
In Buenos Aires (Argentina's Capital City) and nearby cities (Metropolitan Area) there are several providers, such as iplan, fibertel, telefonica, telecom, telmex, telecentro, and others. In the rest of the country, the options are much more limited. There is surely one DSL provider (Either Telefonica's Speedy or Telecom's Arnet, and in most places there is also a cablemodem provider (Fibertel), a Wimax provider (Telmex), and some small local services, usually cooperatives or small wireless companies. And that's all. Telefonica sucks big time, both technically and commercially, and Fibertel is the only decent alternative, both technically and economically.
You can get a decent 3MB cablemodem from Fibertel for ~40 dollars (160 pesos).
Of course, Fibertel is not going to die. They are either going to appeal and win (or at least delay this for years to come), or sell the whole infrastructure to someone. Anyway, this is just the government reminding us that it can fuck with us whenever it wants.
I agree about the bears. Same thing about dogs, but nobody complains that you have pet dogs, because it's implied that you'll keep feeding them. If you abandon your pets, that's animal cruelty and a whole different crime in and on itself. The reason this guys can't feed the bears anymore is because they are being dishonestly prosecuted for doing something that should be perfectly legal.
On the other hand, all cops are jerks. Why do you think they became cops in the first place? Same thing with the army. People become cops/marines because they are jerks, because they are murderers, and because they want power/a gun. Don't come to me with the 'college money' bullshit excuse. If you want college money, do as Stanhope suggests, and suck a dick. You get college money and you never even have to abandon west Virginia.
They are jerks that need power, and have an urge to murder, so they make a deal with a different kind of jerk: the right wing motherfuckers that want to control the population so that they can keep going to the bank.
There is no other plausible explanation. This is what is actually going on. Sure, they'll say they want to 'help the community', and that they want to 'serve their country'. Bullshit, they are just worried about the size of their dicks, so they need to make it up with a big gun and a license to kill.
Actually, don't blame America, blame the United States of America. America is a beautiful continent, and all Canadians are as American as all Peruvians and all Cubans, and America had nothing to do with this.
The culprit is the USA, and it's stupid policies, including the way they put their nose in other countries affairs.
So, a few guys are just growing pot, smoking and selling all day, they take animals for their protection, the animals are treated well, they are well fed, and neither the animals nor the people are a danger to anyone.
So, the cops come in, put the guys in jail, burn the crops, and murder the animals. And we are somehow supposed to think that the cops are the good guys?
No, but if the UK suddenly changed it's name to "The United Kingdoms of Europe", starting calling itself "Europe" and it's citizens "Europeans", and silently pretended that they came up with it, and that the rest of the continent is called "The Europas", then I would be fucking pissed off too.
That is EXACTLY what the US did with the name America.
Not true.
Understand this:
The Spaniards where the first to get to America.
They named all of this beautiful continent "America" after an Italian explorer that was the first to make reliable maps of the region (He was called Amerigo Vespucci).
"America" refered to ALL of the western hemisphere, both North and South America.
Ask anyone in South America, we all consider ourselves "Americans". There are countless songs and other cultural productions, created between April 25 of 1507 - August 17 2010 in South America that refer to its inhabitants as "Americans". Everything from Folk songs written 450 years ago, to metal songs written yesterday.
Your country stole the name, and made you all believe that they came up with it.
Why do you think your country is named the united states OF America? Because it is a bunch of states that are within a bigger place called America. That's fucking why.
Sorry to replay not to the actual content of your post, but, I just found something amazing on your post.
From your post, I understand you live in the USA. And yet, you don't use the awesomely egomaniac expression "American" to refer to yourself while disregarding the fact that America is a much bigger continent than just your country. I keep complaining about it, but it's so hard to get people from the US to open their mind and understand that they are not the center of the world that I just let it go many times.
So, USAian. It does sound weird, but it's better than American. I personally use US citizen, spanish (Estadounidense), or just Yankee, for lack of a better term. The United States is the only country in the world that doesn't have a proper demonym in its own official language, but it does in others (i.e: Spanish, French).
Anyway, congratulations for not being an asshole.
Sorry, There are no gods.
The US is the one that has no reason to be over there. The US is the one interfering with foreign sovereign nations.
You are invaders. No different from Atila, except for the fact that Atila was in a time when conquering other nations was the norm, and the US is a barbaric nation from the past in more modern and civilized times.
And the country that is getting invaded is somehow the 'bad guy'?
Come on.
All I can say is: The rest of the world rejoices every time one of your soldiers die.
It is in fact the main codec used in most of my Asterisk systems. The implementation is 100% Free Software. Is it patent-free? No. But nobody has sued anybody so far, mainly because the big guys don't see its use in VoIP as a threat to their big-ass systems used in GSM networks. Now, this might be a different situation.
NEARLY. NEARLY. They said NEARLY every person with Alzheimer's tested positive. If NEARLY every person develops the characteristics you are testing for, NEARLY ALL ALL. NEARLY 100%. That means they are getting FALSE NEGATIVES.
On the other hand, out of the people tested, many were POSITIVE, but we don't yet know if they are going to have Alzheimer's or not. So, we MIGHT HAVE FALSE POSITIVES.
That is exactly what my post said.
Don't get me wrong, a technique to easily prove for a hard to detect and identify disease, that has a low rate of false positives/negatives is still AWESOME. But it's not 100% effective, which is what the article claimed.