"I don't want a union; unions are for blue-collar workers." "I don't want to wear a condom; only people with STDs wear those."
Your post shows no sign of any actual thought process. No, strike that. Your post was so mind-numbingly stupid that it made me bleed ou of my ears.
Let me try to approximate what you're saying: "Do you want to live in an ordered state like Singapore, or a hell-hole like Mexico City? Only societies with crime need police, so if we got a police force crime would go up."
(Note that, in addition to capturing your idiotic logic, my analogy also duplicates your inadequate grasp of the facts. Singapore employs quite a large number of policemen -- just like doctors, lawyers, and college professors have unions.)
The OED notes that in recent usage, balant is used to mean: obtrusive to the eye (rather than to the ear as in orig. senses); glaringly or defiantly conspicuous; palpably prominent or obvious. However, nothing in the Dictionary supports your specific characterization of flagrant "so excessive(ly) it's noticeable."
(As a side note, blatant is a word that Spenser made up to describe a thousand-tounged monster, while flagrant literally means flaming.)
In 2003, the U.S. military budget (not counting expenses allotted for the war in Iraq) was $399.1 billion. The two countries closest to us in spending, Russia and China, weigh in at $65 and $47 billion, respectively. The combined military spending of France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Spain in 2003 was $120.6 billion, less than a third of the US's spending.
And these numbers don't tell the complete story. They don't tell about our our unrivalled submarine fleet. They don't tell about our aircraft carriers and military bases across the globe. They don't tell of our air force, planes as numerous as locusts.
There is no army in the world that can stand before our legions. There is no citadel that can withstand the hammer-blows we can bring to bear upon it. A single enemy we might ignore, to demolish later at our leisure. But if somehow -- in the face of all reason -- all the world arrayed itself against us, our fury would rain down upon your cities like the wrath of God Himself.
Americans excel at two things: making money, and making war. I say all this not out of pride, but out of sad resignation. Because I wish that we could be checked -- but we can't.
Air-conditioning, power-steering and even ABS still aren't standard despite costing next to nothing at build time and being about as essential as you could get.
They aren't? This might vary from country to country; I understand that in the UK, for example, most cars have standard transmissions and an automatic transmission is a minor luxury feature.
I don't know about you, but I always show up to movies 10 minutes late, with obvious opening-night exceptions. This never causes me to miss a single minute of the show.
If they think they are going to use my fucking bandwidth and processing power to display an advertisement, and that I will pay them for the privilege, they are deluded.
When someone insults me like this, I will gladly piss all over his intellectual property.
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You might as well say you have to know how to wire a half-adder.
You should.
People running servers aren't potential customers for a game company. (If they are, they'll be running the games on their personal computers.)
What's a "pocket Republican"?
If you really think and act that way, then you have sold me on the scouts for my own children.
No one can knock Tim Burton's eerie sense of genius.
I take it you haven't seen his remake of Planet of the Apes.
I'm a student, and I'd LOVE to be able to quickly type equations. For note-taking alone, it would be a huge boon.
I thought the grandparent was trying to move away from un-godly bloat.
Holy crap, I could probably re-read the trilogy in less time than that!
"I don't want a union; unions are for blue-collar workers."
"I don't want to wear a condom; only people with STDs wear those."
Your post shows no sign of any actual thought process. No, strike that. Your post was so mind-numbingly stupid that it made me bleed ou of my ears.
Let me try to approximate what you're saying: "Do you want to live in an ordered state like Singapore, or a hell-hole like Mexico City? Only societies with crime need police, so if we got a police force crime would go up."
(Note that, in addition to capturing your idiotic logic, my analogy also duplicates your inadequate grasp of the facts. Singapore employs quite a large number of policemen -- just like doctors, lawyers, and college professors have unions.)
25 years after publishing, the copyright has certainly expired.
The OED notes that in recent usage, balant is used to mean: obtrusive to the eye (rather than to the ear as in orig. senses); glaringly or defiantly conspicuous; palpably prominent or obvious. However, nothing in the Dictionary supports your specific characterization of flagrant "so excessive(ly) it's noticeable."
(As a side note, blatant is a word that Spenser made up to describe a thousand-tounged monster, while flagrant literally means flaming.)
Well since just about anyone who uses these, sells them, or just talks about them refers to the effect as "ghosting"
In other news, it is also correct to refer to Internet Explorer as "the Internet", or to call a monitor "the CPU."
It's possible that the poor fool actually believes what he's saying.
On the other hand, since he has 5 recent posts modded at -1, the more reasonable explanation is that he's a stupid political troll.
Here, let me throw out some numbers:
In 2003, the U.S. military budget (not counting expenses allotted for the war in Iraq) was $399.1 billion. The two countries closest to us in spending, Russia and China, weigh in at $65 and $47 billion, respectively. The combined military spending of France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Spain in 2003 was $120.6 billion, less than a third of the US's spending.
And these numbers don't tell the complete story. They don't tell about our our unrivalled submarine fleet. They don't tell about our aircraft carriers and military bases across the globe. They don't tell of our air force, planes as numerous as locusts.
There is no army in the world that can stand before our legions. There is no citadel that can withstand the hammer-blows we can bring to bear upon it. A single enemy we might ignore, to demolish later at our leisure. But if somehow -- in the face of all reason -- all the world arrayed itself against us, our fury would rain down upon your cities like the wrath of God Himself.
Americans excel at two things: making money, and making war. I say all this not out of pride, but out of sad resignation. Because I wish that we could be checked -- but we can't.
Air-conditioning, power-steering and even ABS still aren't standard despite costing next to nothing at build time and being about as essential as you could get.
They aren't? This might vary from country to country; I understand that in the UK, for example, most cars have standard transmissions and an automatic transmission is a minor luxury feature.
You fucking idiot. If they can get root access on your machine, you're fucked anyway -- this stupid script is irrelevant.
Actually, that is becoming a major concern in those places, as you can imagine what problems a group of males who really need sex can cause...
Gay orgies?
You probably already buy them. Have you bought:
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Uh, no?
Plus, really, how long will it be until people crack this?
That's what I'm counting on, chief.
I don't know about you, but I always show up to movies 10 minutes late, with obvious opening-night exceptions. This never causes me to miss a single minute of the show.
...has lost a sale.
If they think they are going to use my fucking bandwidth and processing power to display an advertisement, and that I will pay them for the privilege, they are deluded.
When someone insults me like this, I will gladly piss all over his intellectual property.
Basically I Love Bee is a game. But a game played out in real life.
You're killing me.
I think that this pretty much says it all.
1% of calls to 20% of calls is actually a 1900% increase, not a 19% one.
No, he's not. America loses whether or not you vote according to his program. (Read the code again carefully.)
General weakness. The states split off from Iraq would have smaller militaries, and be unable to resist invasion from their neighbors (like Iran).
When was the last time Iran waged a war of aggression?
The Kurdish question, IMO, is the main reason that dividing the country would be infeasible.