And I don't like it. Please stop with the popup every single time I open the browser on a mobile device. I'm a creature of habit as I'm sure many others are here and the old mobile interface isn't so far a divergence from the desktop site that i'm not sure where things are. The problem with the new mobile site is it's too different. This is not a social networking site. Please don't try to make it into one.
So your basic argument is that because we allegedly (and I say allegedly as accusations are without merit) invaded the middle east because of Oil, that means we have to do decades of apologizing? We nuked Japan. Twice. And we never apologized for it. Far from it. Their culture was violent too. Why? Because of their religion, which stated that Japanese were a superior race and their leader was divine. Do you know what we did to their culture, their religion? We forced the emperor to deny his divinity, we passed laws to forbid facist aspects of their religion, and we reformed their culture. That is the reason they are friendly now. Not because we respected their culture and religion, because we danced around politically correct fictions about what they believed, but because we, with overwhelming force, made them friendly... and they are the better for it now. As you point out, they are world competitors, if not leaders in many aspects, in high tech areas.
I don't think I've ever heard a terrorist say he or she did it because they were treated badly by racists. I see what you're trying to say, though, and perhaps in some cases you have a point, but it's hardly an excuse for somebody to not assimilate (or worse, to commit a violent act against their host country). Italian Americans were looked down on back in the day. Irish too. SE Asians... Almost any minority. Yet somehow none of them blew shit up. They pushed past it and earned respect. What you're saying also doesn't explain home grown terrorists who blow stuff up shoot at federal buildings. Personally, I blame religion. It's not like they're shouting "die racists" before they self detonate. No. They're screaming religious slogans.
This all depends on whether they assimilate or not. Some might very well be internally hostile towards their host country, or at least unwilling to adopt compatible values. In such cases, in a way it's even worse if they stay. This is most not often the case in the US, however. I'd wager most who gain an education here want to stay here and contribute. They should be allowed to.
Probably nothing at all. Many guys would consider it a badge of honor to have their nudie pix passed around by a bunch of women (or sometimes even men, or men pretending to be women).
It really depends on where you work, the types of people you date, etc.. When I was in art school, self portrait nudes were commonplace. There was even a guy who did an oil painting of himself performing autofellatio. It was hanging in the student gallery for ages. There was a 8 foot self portrait nude drawing of myself that was very close to photo-realistic. I was nervous at first about making it, and a bit self conscious about my body, but I found it personally liberating. As a result, i could really care less if nudes of me somehow managed to get off my secure storage and started floating around on the web. I just don't think people should be bothered by body parts, and if they are, well then they're probably not the sorts of people I want to associate with.
The problem is many carriers won't sell you a decent data plan unless you buy a subsidized phone. So even if you bring your own phone, you'll still be paying as if you had a subsidized device. In such cases, you might as well go with the subsidized phone. YMMV may vary per carrier.
Everybody seems to be reporting differing and contradictory stuff about this. Some are saying carrier unlocking (generally done with a code) is illegal and jailbreaking / changing your firmware, is still legal. Some are saying the complete opposite. Nobody seems to know what the fuck is going on.
I wish these Muslims wouldn't say "Asians" when they complain about something remotely resembling something having to do with Islam. I'm quite positive there are many Asians who don't like getting lumped together with Muslim middle easterners when they do or say something insane. Besides; criticizing a religion, which is not even what Lego did here, has absolutely nothing at all to do with race.
No need to use a VM. Just use compatibility mode in windows 7 or 8. 8 does some cool stuff with retro games (automatically sets the correct settings for many games). I'm currently playing black and white as well as neverwinter nights... Both Win 95/98 era games. No issues. I run lots of retro games.
Also. If you're trying to get 3d to work in a VM, you need to use drivers supplied by the VM vendor in the client and enable the relevant settings on the host.
You're right. We're not perfect in the west and sometimes we do selfish things to the detriment of others, but often times it's because we feel there is no other choice and we have to choose what we see as the lesser of the evils. As the wiki article notes, if, perhaps, we did interfere, it was to prevent the Taliban from taking hold and making things worse for everybody (this includes you). Do you want people in charge who will shoot an unarmed young girl in the head for wanting an education?
Let me ask you something. If there was actually a fair and honest election, who would get elected, and how could anybody know whether or not the elected leader would adhere to his promises (and this is a problem in every democratic country). Some guy makes grand promises about getting rid of corruption, perhaps plays the religious angle as well, and once he's in power, he's no different than the other asshole, except perhaps on the surface. How do you know the popular will would not be to elect some Islamist wacko who turned Pakistan into another Afghanistan?
The people of Egypt thought change would be good. Now they're not so sure. Certainly Coptic Christians and those with secular leanings are having second thoughts. Is democracy really that great when the will of the majority is to oppress vulnerable minorities? If it brought you a little fuel, as you say, would it be worth it? Is your country that desperate? I hope not.
As for putting you up. Were I still stateside, I might actually take you up on that offer. I like adventures and you'd be surprised the kind of people who have stayed with me until they can get on their feet. My advice to you is to not give up on trying for a job and a Visa. It may be difficult, but yeah, there are companies out there who actually prefer to hire educated people from countries like yours because you're often better educated than natives and you're often not nearly as lazy. America was built by immigrants. Sure, people will worry about hiring somebody from a country that's best know for harboring Bin Ladin and chanting "death to America" on a semi-regular basis, but there are those who look past that and don't much care as long as you're a good worker. Perhaps start some open source project or something like that to show what you can do market yourself. There are opportunities if you're persistent.
We cooperate with the corrupt administrations only because you have them. Is it our fault Pakistan is corrupt? We're just playing into your system and it's in our interests to do so. We'll play ball with whoever is willing. We're not supporting so much as we're paying a tax to make sure your leaders aren't overtly hostile.
If you want to roll the dice with a revolution and see what pops up, that's your concern, but if it results in overtly hostile actions against the US or our allies, I guarantee things will get worse for you, not better. Again, this would not be our fault. In addition to losing any aid we provide now, you'd likely find yourself under sanctions, perhaps in a war, and any shred of liberty you have left would be ground to dust under the jackboots of religious thugs...
And if you think your country as a whole will become any less corrupt, or any more modern, you're dreaming. Such change doesn't come overnight, and it's nigh on impossible to remove corruption from a country when the culture is completely saturated in it. You'll have different masters with different rulse but the same corrupt enforcers, willing to use any excuse to extort.
My advice? Leave Pakistan. You seem educated and you seem like you could have a future in the West. There is no hope, no future for Pakistan. It only gets worse from here and if you can't image it getting worse, you're not very imaginative.
We bribe them so they aren't worse, and to prevent somebody worse from coming to power. Nobody expects them to be good. That being said, it's getting to the point where they can't possibly get much worse, so you're right to question why we continue to give them free shit.
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No. It behaves like shit on mobile Chrome too.
And I don't like it. Please stop with the popup every single time I open the browser on a mobile device. I'm a creature of habit as I'm sure many others are here and the old mobile interface isn't so far a divergence from the desktop site that i'm not sure where things are. The problem with the new mobile site is it's too different. This is not a social networking site. Please don't try to make it into one.
In the EU, perhaps, but in the states, Steam copies are almost always cheaper. Use a proxy and browse around the steam store to see what I mean.
So your basic argument is that because we allegedly (and I say allegedly as accusations are without merit) invaded the middle east because of Oil, that means we have to do decades of apologizing? We nuked Japan. Twice. And we never apologized for it. Far from it. Their culture was violent too. Why? Because of their religion, which stated that Japanese were a superior race and their leader was divine. Do you know what we did to their culture, their religion? We forced the emperor to deny his divinity, we passed laws to forbid facist aspects of their religion, and we reformed their culture. That is the reason they are friendly now. Not because we respected their culture and religion, because we danced around politically correct fictions about what they believed, but because we, with overwhelming force, made them friendly... and they are the better for it now. As you point out, they are world competitors, if not leaders in many aspects, in high tech areas.
I don't think I've ever heard a terrorist say he or she did it because they were treated badly by racists. I see what you're trying to say, though, and perhaps in some cases you have a point, but it's hardly an excuse for somebody to not assimilate (or worse, to commit a violent act against their host country). Italian Americans were looked down on back in the day. Irish too. SE Asians... Almost any minority. Yet somehow none of them blew shit up. They pushed past it and earned respect. What you're saying also doesn't explain home grown terrorists who blow stuff up shoot at federal buildings. Personally, I blame religion. It's not like they're shouting "die racists" before they self detonate. No. They're screaming religious slogans.
This all depends on whether they assimilate or not. Some might very well be internally hostile towards their host country, or at least unwilling to adopt compatible values. In such cases, in a way it's even worse if they stay. This is most not often the case in the US, however. I'd wager most who gain an education here want to stay here and contribute. They should be allowed to.
Probably nothing at all. Many guys would consider it a badge of honor to have their nudie pix passed around by a bunch of women (or sometimes even men, or men pretending to be women).
The best marks are the overconfident ones. There is social science to back this concept.
It really depends on where you work, the types of people you date, etc.. When I was in art school, self portrait nudes were commonplace. There was even a guy who did an oil painting of himself performing autofellatio. It was hanging in the student gallery for ages. There was a 8 foot self portrait nude drawing of myself that was very close to photo-realistic. I was nervous at first about making it, and a bit self conscious about my body, but I found it personally liberating. As a result, i could really care less if nudes of me somehow managed to get off my secure storage and started floating around on the web. I just don't think people should be bothered by body parts, and if they are, well then they're probably not the sorts of people I want to associate with.
Is creating a singularity a goal (immediate or long term) at Google?
I read somewhere that it doesn't actually improve the quality of your sleep. Plus. Wouldn't you wake up with a hangover?
The problem is many carriers won't sell you a decent data plan unless you buy a subsidized phone. So even if you bring your own phone, you'll still be paying as if you had a subsidized device. In such cases, you might as well go with the subsidized phone. YMMV may vary per carrier.
From the 4s on, the phone is universal. All versions of the phone have both GSM and CDMA radios.
Everybody seems to be reporting differing and contradictory stuff about this. Some are saying carrier unlocking (generally done with a code) is illegal and jailbreaking / changing your firmware, is still legal. Some are saying the complete opposite. Nobody seems to know what the fuck is going on.
Bastardized form of Islam, heh? Read the Qur'an and the hadith and stop getting your information on Islam from TV shows.
India? China? You may be right, but I seriously doubt it.
I knew it wouldn't take long for some antisemite such as yourself to blame the Jews. Kill yourself.
It's the accent. You guys just sound really cool as the villain. Take it as a compliment.
I wish these Muslims wouldn't say "Asians" when they complain about something remotely resembling something having to do with Islam. I'm quite positive there are many Asians who don't like getting lumped together with Muslim middle easterners when they do or say something insane. Besides; criticizing a religion, which is not even what Lego did here, has absolutely nothing at all to do with race.
No need to use a VM. Just use compatibility mode in windows 7 or 8. 8 does some cool stuff with retro games (automatically sets the correct settings for many games). I'm currently playing black and white as well as neverwinter nights... Both Win 95/98 era games. No issues. I run lots of retro games.
Also. If you're trying to get 3d to work in a VM, you need to use drivers supplied by the VM vendor in the client and enable the relevant settings on the host.
You're right. We're not perfect in the west and sometimes we do selfish things to the detriment of others, but often times it's because we feel there is no other choice and we have to choose what we see as the lesser of the evils. As the wiki article notes, if, perhaps, we did interfere, it was to prevent the Taliban from taking hold and making things worse for everybody (this includes you). Do you want people in charge who will shoot an unarmed young girl in the head for wanting an education?
Let me ask you something. If there was actually a fair and honest election, who would get elected, and how could anybody know whether or not the elected leader would adhere to his promises (and this is a problem in every democratic country). Some guy makes grand promises about getting rid of corruption, perhaps plays the religious angle as well, and once he's in power, he's no different than the other asshole, except perhaps on the surface. How do you know the popular will would not be to elect some Islamist wacko who turned Pakistan into another Afghanistan?
The people of Egypt thought change would be good. Now they're not so sure. Certainly Coptic Christians and those with secular leanings are having second thoughts. Is democracy really that great when the will of the majority is to oppress vulnerable minorities? If it brought you a little fuel, as you say, would it be worth it? Is your country that desperate? I hope not.
As for putting you up. Were I still stateside, I might actually take you up on that offer. I like adventures and you'd be surprised the kind of people who have stayed with me until they can get on their feet. My advice to you is to not give up on trying for a job and a Visa. It may be difficult, but yeah, there are companies out there who actually prefer to hire educated people from countries like yours because you're often better educated than natives and you're often not nearly as lazy. America was built by immigrants. Sure, people will worry about hiring somebody from a country that's best know for harboring Bin Ladin and chanting "death to America" on a semi-regular basis, but there are those who look past that and don't much care as long as you're a good worker. Perhaps start some open source project or something like that to show what you can do market yourself. There are opportunities if you're persistent.
We cooperate with the corrupt administrations only because you have them. Is it our fault Pakistan is corrupt? We're just playing into your system and it's in our interests to do so. We'll play ball with whoever is willing. We're not supporting so much as we're paying a tax to make sure your leaders aren't overtly hostile.
If you want to roll the dice with a revolution and see what pops up, that's your concern, but if it results in overtly hostile actions against the US or our allies, I guarantee things will get worse for you, not better. Again, this would not be our fault. In addition to losing any aid we provide now, you'd likely find yourself under sanctions, perhaps in a war, and any shred of liberty you have left would be ground to dust under the jackboots of religious thugs...
And if you think your country as a whole will become any less corrupt, or any more modern, you're dreaming. Such change doesn't come overnight, and it's nigh on impossible to remove corruption from a country when the culture is completely saturated in it. You'll have different masters with different rulse but the same corrupt enforcers, willing to use any excuse to extort.
My advice? Leave Pakistan. You seem educated and you seem like you could have a future in the West. There is no hope, no future for Pakistan. It only gets worse from here and if you can't image it getting worse, you're not very imaginative.
Be happy with the leaders you currently have. It could be much worse. As they say, the devil you know is better than the one you don't.
We bribe them so they aren't worse, and to prevent somebody worse from coming to power. Nobody expects them to be good. That being said, it's getting to the point where they can't possibly get much worse, so you're right to question why we continue to give them free shit.
Ever played Max Payne 3? There is some pretty explicit nudity in that game.