I suggest you re-read your history books:) Oh, wait, our history books are rife with inconsistencies and lies. Like our overall goal in Vietnam was honorable, we just bungled it up. That previous sentence? Load of horseshit. History is written and molded by the victors, and very rarely is it seen through anything other than tainted glasses.
Vietnam was directly instigated. Many of our military endeavors over the past 70 years or so were directly instigated by us. Things that have happened that 'threatened' us since then have been blowback. People don't hate us because we're free, people hate us because we kill their elected / populist leaders and install puppet dictatorships and then go to war with the puppet dictatorships when the puppet dictator gets tired of our hand up his ass.
They use the call notification signal (the signal that tells your cellphone there's an incoming call and who it's from) to transmit the SMS in pretty direct binary. There's a start and stop code so that your phone doesn't actually ring like it's a regular phonecall.
It would be more feasible to build a sustained outpost in the asteroid belt - probably using a large asteroid as the outer structure - than to truly built something that can sustain human life on the surface of mars.
Plus, you don't have to worry about that pesky gravity stuff.
Don't you still recycle your xp boxen? I actually don't know how vista or xp fare in the uptime epeen argument. I still have windows 2000. Albeit, the last choice in grub.
What congresscritter killed over 4,000 US soldiers? Oh, wait. They didn't, they just sat on their laurels while our idiot-in-chief did.
Which congresscritter continues to fund the war and contribute to economic decline, systematically selling our government to foreign interests through bonds to get more money to spend on killing our soldiers?
Billions of dollars of measurable damage plus economic fallout, versus $341 million a day. That's 124 billion dollars a year. So far the Iraq war has cost us over $500 trillion. I doubt there were trillions of dollars lost in the economic fallout of 9/11.
As a new yorker, get your head out of your collective ass. 9/11 happened, it sucked, we all lost someone we knew or cared about. I'd hate for those people to know that our government used it emptily as an excuse to waste money and ADDITIONAL american lives. 9/11 did damage for sure. I'm not belittling that.
Congress and our inept executive branch have demonstrably, through action or inaction, caused more lives to end (even if we just count US lives! We don't even know accurately how many civilian lives have been ended) and more money to be lost than was in 9/11. That's initially. Then there's the immeasurable economic fallout from spending 500 trillion dollars on killing instead of saving lives.
The fields available in the blog-entry screen are highly customizable. If they aren't organized properly, yell at your EE admin. The flexibility of the blogging module is what makes EE awesome.
Joomla and Mambo are crap.
Drupal is okay, but bloated.
I prefer ExpressionEngine. It's fast, feature-rich, and elegant. For a Joomla->EE migration on a small-medium newsletter-style site (moving from flat articles to a nice categorization system, etc), it took about 2 weeks to get up to speed on EE and another week to bang out the templates. The sticking points came from their data migration team not following directions (a direct db->db migration wasn't feasible).
Then the problem might be that they're using the wrong doctype, and not coding to standards;) Which is the easier thing to fix. (things like unescaped ampersands are inexcusable, though)
A financially successful movie with an over-emphasis on special effects has a much higher chance of being from LA than from Munich (or Beijing, for that matter). Same goes for TV series.
Most corner stores / bodegas in NYC do not accept CCs. Then again, all I buy there is beer and cigarettes.
But my point sort of stands - the only places that accept them are big name stores like Duane Reade, clothing stores, etc. The last time I bought a pair of boots, the store requested to see my ID because it was a large purchase. I'm completely fine with it. I now know that store makes sure their customers aren't frauds.
It's pretty much that simple to prevent this at the store level. Ask for a fucking ID. Stupid customers will get angry, but they can deal with taking one more piece of identification out. If they didn't want to show ID, they could petition their credit card company to start with the public/private key encryption. Then again, with the quality of sales reps at most stores (big box like kmart, best buy, wal mart, et cetera) I can see why a simple request for ID would be an issue.
While you're definitely referring to the Chinese government, many of those accusations could be applied just as aptly (but to a lesser extent) to the current US government.
spied on its citizens
taps their phone calls
monitors internet traffic
torture and imprisonment of people who don't get a trial (yay patriot act)
meddled in the affairs of foreign governments to the point of overthrowing elected gov's and putting dictators in place (hello iran!)
Hey, you don't think the patriot act is good? you're effing unamerican! While it isn't to the point of McCarthyism, it is present to an extent
Their people are blinded by unfounded national pride.
The only difference is the extent at which the atrocities are performed (but where do you draw the line?) and the communist nature of their government compared with our own capitalist oligarchy.
And then there's all those ethnic Han Chinese that were murdered/had their houses burned/had their businesses raised in the latest riots in Lhasa.. To a lot of the ethnic Han living in Tibet, the "free tibet" initiative is more about kicking all the Han out, instead of true liberation. There are political motivations to be sure, but there are strong racist elements within the unrest.
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How Kansas City could ever be considered Zion is beyond my feeble, mortal understanding.
Cancun, on the other hand...
"The US has, for 50 years, guaranteed your safety. "
...lol.
I suggest you re-read your history books :) Oh, wait, our history books are rife with inconsistencies and lies. Like our overall goal in Vietnam was honorable, we just bungled it up. That previous sentence? Load of horseshit. History is written and molded by the victors, and very rarely is it seen through anything other than tainted glasses.
Vietnam was directly instigated. Many of our military endeavors over the past 70 years or so were directly instigated by us. Things that have happened that 'threatened' us since then have been blowback. People don't hate us because we're free, people hate us because we kill their elected / populist leaders and install puppet dictatorships and then go to war with the puppet dictatorships when the puppet dictator gets tired of our hand up his ass.
They use the call notification signal (the signal that tells your cellphone there's an incoming call and who it's from) to transmit the SMS in pretty direct binary. There's a start and stop code so that your phone doesn't actually ring like it's a regular phonecall.
It would be more feasible to build a sustained outpost in the asteroid belt - probably using a large asteroid as the outer structure - than to truly built something that can sustain human life on the surface of mars.
Plus, you don't have to worry about that pesky gravity stuff.
Wait, you mean like what OSx86 did?
That'd be too easy.
Well, it is Windows.
Don't you still recycle your xp boxen? I actually don't know how vista or xp fare in the uptime epeen argument. I still have windows 2000. Albeit, the last choice in grub.
And I never look at grub.
It's the same as every other technology.
We discover it. Other people take it and make it better and drive us out of business due to our corrupt plutocracy.
They're going to destroy 10% of cables and satellites? Wow.
What congresscritter killed over 4,000 US soldiers? Oh, wait. They didn't, they just sat on their laurels while our idiot-in-chief did.
Which congresscritter continues to fund the war and contribute to economic decline, systematically selling our government to foreign interests through bonds to get more money to spend on killing our soldiers?
Billions of dollars of measurable damage plus economic fallout, versus $341 million a day. That's 124 billion dollars a year. So far the Iraq war has cost us over $500 trillion. I doubt there were trillions of dollars lost in the economic fallout of 9/11.
As a new yorker, get your head out of your collective ass. 9/11 happened, it sucked, we all lost someone we knew or cared about. I'd hate for those people to know that our government used it emptily as an excuse to waste money and ADDITIONAL american lives. 9/11 did damage for sure. I'm not belittling that.
Congress and our inept executive branch have demonstrably, through action or inaction, caused more lives to end (even if we just count US lives! We don't even know accurately how many civilian lives have been ended) and more money to be lost than was in 9/11. That's initially. Then there's the immeasurable economic fallout from spending 500 trillion dollars on killing instead of saving lives.
The fields available in the blog-entry screen are highly customizable. If they aren't organized properly, yell at your EE admin. The flexibility of the blogging module is what makes EE awesome.
Joomla and Mambo are crap. Drupal is okay, but bloated. I prefer ExpressionEngine. It's fast, feature-rich, and elegant. For a Joomla->EE migration on a small-medium newsletter-style site (moving from flat articles to a nice categorization system, etc), it took about 2 weeks to get up to speed on EE and another week to bang out the templates. The sticking points came from their data migration team not following directions (a direct db->db migration wasn't feasible).
Then the problem might be that they're using the wrong doctype, and not coding to standards ;) Which is the easier thing to fix. (things like unescaped ampersands are inexcusable, though)
If you're validating to strict xhtml, everything needs an end tag. No ifs, ands or buts.
Altec Lansing VotT cabinets were boss. Absolutely. My da had a set, and you could easily rumble the pictures off the wall :) /OT
Most corner stores / bodegas in NYC do not accept CCs. Then again, all I buy there is beer and cigarettes.
But my point sort of stands - the only places that accept them are big name stores like Duane Reade, clothing stores, etc. The last time I bought a pair of boots, the store requested to see my ID because it was a large purchase. I'm completely fine with it. I now know that store makes sure their customers aren't frauds.
It's pretty much that simple to prevent this at the store level. Ask for a fucking ID. Stupid customers will get angry, but they can deal with taking one more piece of identification out. If they didn't want to show ID, they could petition their credit card company to start with the public/private key encryption. Then again, with the quality of sales reps at most stores (big box like kmart, best buy, wal mart, et cetera) I can see why a simple request for ID would be an issue.
"Well, we've lost this year's student records. I hope you're happy."
I wish I could mod you up, but I've already responded in this discussion.
While China's economy is based on exporting crap to us, our federal bonds are issued mostly to the Chinese government.
I've said it once, and I'll say it again. We are in a state of economic mutually-assured destruction.
They call in our debt: our economy collapses. They can't sell their shit to us anymore. Their economy collapses.
We stop buying their shit: Their economy collapses and they're forced to call in their debt. Our economy collapses.
While China's economic strength is tied to ours, our strength is just as equally tied to theirs.
- spied on its citizens
- taps their phone calls
- monitors internet traffic
- torture and imprisonment of people who don't get a trial (yay patriot act)
- kidnapped people in foreign lands and delivered them to torture centers
- meddled in the affairs of foreign governments to the point of overthrowing elected gov's and putting dictators in place (hello iran!)
- Hey, you don't think the patriot act is good? you're effing unamerican! While it isn't to the point of McCarthyism, it is present to an extent
- Their people are blinded by unfounded national pride.
The only difference is the extent at which the atrocities are performed (but where do you draw the line?) and the communist nature of their government compared with our own capitalist oligarchy.And then there's all those ethnic Han Chinese that were murdered/had their houses burned/had their businesses raised in the latest riots in Lhasa.. To a lot of the ethnic Han living in Tibet, the "free tibet" initiative is more about kicking all the Han out, instead of true liberation. There are political motivations to be sure, but there are strong racist elements within the unrest.
You gotta fight! For your right! To party!