Fuck you you American git. Keep on consuming. Keep on polluting. Shame you don't have a fucking clue what climate change will do to the millions around the globe critically balanced as they are in their interaction with the environment. That includes North America as well. In years to come we'll be hanging you bastards for crimes against humanity.
Truman should also never allowed Israel to be created
Much as I normally jump on the opportunity to jump on America. This one ain't really the Yanks' fault. It's Britains. We owned Palestine. It all started with the Balfour declaration and went steadily downhill from there.
Most of Israel's early leaders were on Britain's list of top terrorists. Things like the bombing of the King David hotel. Those evil bastards really did start the war of terror - and that was before the Holocaust. That just gave them the perfect excuse for sympathy later.
Don't get me wrong I'm not anti-Jew (or other Semite) and I know many Israelis are as aghast at their nations doings as the rest of us. But Israel is an evil fucking state that deserves nothing less than the flames of hell.
But then you have no rights at all anyway and nor do the corporations or the universities. All rights are granted by the state (sometimes on behalf of the people sometimes not) and usually must be fought for.
It is an insult. Socialism is an inhuman and invalid philosophy of governing with a horrid track record: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao were all socialists. It reverses centuries of human progress (where people have gained rights comparative to government) by giving government all the rights again.
I see. As opposed to fascism and capitalism on the right which is an inhuman and invalid philosophy of governing with a horrid track record - just look at the terrible abuses in countries all around the world in the last half century alone. It reverses centuries of human progress where people have gained rights from the rich and powerful by taking all those rights and giving them right back to the rich and powerful - or even worse the inhuman corporations. Government is often the best defense for the weak and the powerless against the self interests of the mighty.
Sorry, but no;-) I like my welfare net. I've earnt lots of money over the years (and paid lots of tax which I'm quite happy about) and have a reasonable buffer but who knows maybe my next venture will drive me to the wall without a bean left. Then I'll be glad that there'll be a better way to survive than go live on the streets, begging and mugging and anything else just to keep alive.
And what new would we have learnt that way? Surely a university has a duty to innovate. Most research money is down the drain when looked at from a short-term practical perspective. It's only further down the road (when we run out of petrol) that we'll be glad for the work done on this prototype.
What the fuck are you talking about? You keep talking about socialism but I do not think you have a clue what it means. Have a look at Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland - all very hard working countries and very socialist. Maybe you Americans are just bone idle cunts who don't give a fuck about your fellows. We don't all need the fear of starvation to make us work.
. I assure you, no knight of the crusades had anything more holy than his own enrichment in mind, and no inquisitor ever thought he was working for the benefit of anyone's immortal soul.
Sorry but that's total dross. Most inquisitors were really very devout. Some of their diaries make fascinating reading. They really believed that a little pain on Earth was better than eternal torment. The dissidents targeted were primarily religious - the huguenots and other early protestants.
The Catholic church of that time was a perfect example of how large scale religion and politics are indistinguishable. Little changes when we see Islamic fundamentalism locking horns with American Christian fundamentalism. Both are primitive regressive forms of their respective religions, but both are dominant and driven by politics as much as faith and both are leading to massacre and bloodshed of the innocents in the middle.
Its about time people realize that the world was never meant to be a place full of free stuff to take whenever you want it. This idea that its your right to do whatever the hell you want, and when a mega corporation tries to stop you they are suddenly infringing on your god given rights is ridiculous.
It wasn't?? Since when? I don't know of any religious texts that preach the glory of the mega corporations and the oppression of the worms. There's no scientific basis for that statement either.
Uh, people! Has Slashdot gone all creationist or something? Or are we seeing another example of the American failure to appreciate timescales longer than the age of the US;-)
This lake is *only* 2500 years old. On geological and evolutionary timescales that is but a blink. Australia was settled by humans maybe 60,000 years ago (20x older than the lake) and the continent separated from the rest of asia and polynesia tens of millions of years ago (at least 1000x older than the lake). And just to put that timescale into comparision, life on Earth is at least 1 billion years old and multicellular life at least 500 million years.
Whatever is in that lake is descended from everything else on this planet and will be no more different than anything else around than the domestic pussy cat is from a lynx. And there won't be anything that complex there!
Real choice was removed from the system a long time ago.
I don't think it was ever there in the first place. Certainly not in ours (UK). Voting in a two party system is just one bit's worth of input every five years. Even over the whole population (50M) thats only 10 Mb per year or about 3 bits per second - a bit of wet string would give you a better data rate between govt and voters.
Yes, and that reason is precisely why guns are enshrined in the Constitution.
Go for it dude! We don't have that right.
BTW I think we're violently agreeing with each other!
We'd love to respect your borders, it's just our country's been hijacked. Perhaps you'd noticed?
It has?? You're a democracy! You make a big bloody noise about democracy. The flip side is that you must all take responsibility for the leaders you elect. Sorry but it really is your fault.
If your government really has been overthrown by non-democratic means doesn't your constitution oblige you to rise up and use those guns you insist on having?
I thought that was what your highways were for! Many times on my visits to the States I've enjoyed driving past mile after mile of bill boards. Many of them active with 'popups' and other such things to attract the driver's attention. I mean it's not like there's any interesting scenery to look at instead.;-)
Ye gods, you americans go on about how much of your pay packet goes on social and medical security. Yet from a European perspective you have bugger all protection. Even in England which is nowhere near as good as Sweden or other European countries we have more holiday, better medical, better unemployment. Yet we can compete with you guys no problem.
Free trade does indeed work out well. But who (except in their arrogance) would assume that it has to work out well for the USA. Are you really the most competitive, the smartest, the best as you believe? We've put up with your free trade crap being rammed down our throats for a long time and we're sure enjoying watching it come home to roost.
Every job lost to America is a victory for the rest of the world.
We're working with an Indian games company to create a new console game and the team they've assembled is smart, inspired and better motiviated than most dev teams I've met in the West over the last few years. Remember these guys are doing something new in building the Indian games industry, they're not worn down by comparative low pay and dev studios going bust all around them
Oddly enough India is really pissed off with the USA over much the same issue. I was visiting there recently and the big issue in the Times of India was the degree to which the USA subsidised its farmers in blatant breach of WTO regs while forcing developing countries such as India to buy its agricultural products and at the same time threatening India with severe sanctions when it tried to help out its farmers after a severe drought (according to the USA humanitarian aid == state subsidy). The net result has been some terrible starvation in India which could so easily feed itself if allowed to.
Every job outsourced out of America is a victory for the rest of the world.
Wrong - there are many countries where it is plain illegal to hold a monopoly and the state can order a monopoly broken up. England used to be such a case but under pressure from our colonial cousins our Monopolies and Mergers Commission has lost most of its teeth.
We keep hearing a lot of this talk from Americans. Often in the same breath as defending their constitutional right to own guns as defense against big bad government.
Strange thing is we never seem to see the riots on the streets as the American people overthrow their oppressors by force. Just how far do they have to go for you to act? Or do you not really believe in such violence after all? Seems that constitutional right was just talk after all.
Who the hell was Douglas Adams before we heard HHGTTG on the radio? A Doctor Who script editor! That was back in the heyday of the big corporation of course. The Beeb was always a good place for giving new talent a chance to try something. Of course, nowadays you've talk to 26 different companies just to get the coffee machine on manual...
Firstly to clarify - I'm speaking from a British perspective. We also have to pass treaty obligations into law via the same means as you do - one of the arguments currently within Britain is the degree to which EU law is automatically transcribed into English law. At the moment we are still a sovereign nation so to become law an Act of Parliament is still required.
To cut to the chase, what we over here tend to object to is the way that Americans (apparently like yourself) use this "no higher law" argument to violate international law (and it is law however you choose to define it - as a Federated union of States I would have thought you would understand that hierarchy) on a "pick and choose" basis. The USA was one of the prime movers behind the WTO yet violates it when in its best interests but still enforces it on others. You are in violation of several such treaties but still insist on their enforcement elsewhere.
I am not a fan of the WTO, I do not believe we should have signed up to such an American view of the free market and have lobbied my MP to work against it. However the status quo is that we are signatories. One of the things about us Brits is that we believe in playing the game straight. If the rules apply to you they apply to us also. You seem to believe the rules apply to other people also. This high-handed approach invariably leads to a sharp fall.
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Fuck you you American git. Keep on consuming. Keep on polluting. Shame you don't have a fucking clue what climate change will do to the millions around the globe critically balanced as they are in their interaction with the environment. That includes North America as well. In years to come we'll be hanging you bastards for crimes against humanity.
Much as I normally jump on the opportunity to jump on America. This one ain't really the Yanks' fault. It's Britains. We owned Palestine. It all started with the Balfour declaration and went steadily downhill from there.
Most of Israel's early leaders were on Britain's list of top terrorists. Things like the bombing of the King David hotel. Those evil bastards really did start the war of terror - and that was before the Holocaust. That just gave them the perfect excuse for sympathy later.
Don't get me wrong I'm not anti-Jew (or other Semite) and I know many Israelis are as aghast at their nations doings as the rest of us. But Israel is an evil fucking state that deserves nothing less than the flames of hell.
But then you have no rights at all anyway and nor do the corporations or the universities. All rights are granted by the state (sometimes on behalf of the people sometimes not) and usually must be fought for.
I see. As opposed to fascism and capitalism on the right which is an inhuman and invalid philosophy of governing with a horrid track record - just look at the terrible abuses in countries all around the world in the last half century alone. It reverses centuries of human progress where people have gained rights from the rich and powerful by taking all those rights and giving them right back to the rich and powerful - or even worse the inhuman corporations. Government is often the best defense for the weak and the powerless against the self interests of the mighty.
You've clearly never heard of the New England witch trials then.
Sorry, but no ;-) I like my welfare net. I've earnt lots of money over the years (and paid lots of tax which I'm quite happy about) and have a reasonable buffer but who knows maybe my next venture will drive me to the wall without a bean left. Then I'll be glad that there'll be a better way to survive than go live on the streets, begging and mugging and anything else just to keep alive.
And what new would we have learnt that way? Surely a university has a duty to innovate. Most research money is down the drain when looked at from a short-term practical perspective. It's only further down the road (when we run out of petrol) that we'll be glad for the work done on this prototype.
What the fuck are you talking about? You keep talking about socialism but I do not think you have a clue what it means. Have a look at Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland - all very hard working countries and very socialist. Maybe you Americans are just bone idle cunts who don't give a fuck about your fellows. We don't all need the fear of starvation to make us work.
Sorry but that's total dross. Most inquisitors were really very devout. Some of their diaries make fascinating reading. They really believed that a little pain on Earth was better than eternal torment. The dissidents targeted were primarily religious - the huguenots and other early protestants.
The Catholic church of that time was a perfect example of how large scale religion and politics are indistinguishable. Little changes when we see Islamic fundamentalism locking horns with American Christian fundamentalism. Both are primitive regressive forms of their respective religions, but both are dominant and driven by politics as much as faith and both are leading to massacre and bloodshed of the innocents in the middle.
As little as that? Shit, I must cut back!
It wasn't?? Since when? I don't know of any religious texts that preach the glory of the mega corporations and the oppression of the worms. There's no scientific basis for that statement either.
Let's face it, you're just a miserable git.
Mind you, first lunar landar I wrote was in 256 bytes on a KIM. 8kb was luxury after that ;-)
This lake is *only* 2500 years old. On geological and evolutionary timescales that is but a blink. Australia was settled by humans maybe 60,000 years ago (20x older than the lake) and the continent separated from the rest of asia and polynesia tens of millions of years ago (at least 1000x older than the lake). And just to put that timescale into comparision, life on Earth is at least 1 billion years old and multicellular life at least 500 million years.
Whatever is in that lake is descended from everything else on this planet and will be no more different than anything else around than the domestic pussy cat is from a lynx. And there won't be anything that complex there!
I don't think it was ever there in the first place. Certainly not in ours (UK). Voting in a two party system is just one bit's worth of input every five years. Even over the whole population (50M) thats only 10 Mb per year or about 3 bits per second - a bit of wet string would give you a better data rate between govt and voters.
Yes, and that reason is precisely why guns are enshrined in the Constitution. Go for it dude! We don't have that right.
BTW I think we're violently agreeing with each other!
It has?? You're a democracy! You make a big bloody noise about democracy. The flip side is that you must all take responsibility for the leaders you elect. Sorry but it really is your fault.
If your government really has been overthrown by non-democratic means doesn't your constitution oblige you to rise up and use those guns you insist on having?
I thought that was what your highways were for! Many times on my visits to the States I've enjoyed driving past mile after mile of bill boards. Many of them active with 'popups' and other such things to attract the driver's attention. I mean it's not like there's any interesting scenery to look at instead. ;-)
Ye gods, you americans go on about how much of your pay packet goes on social and medical security. Yet from a European perspective you have bugger all protection. Even in England which is nowhere near as good as Sweden or other European countries we have more holiday, better medical, better unemployment. Yet we can compete with you guys no problem.
Every job lost to America is a victory for the rest of the world.
What utter contemptible bollocks!
We're working with an Indian games company to create a new console game and the team they've assembled is smart, inspired and better motiviated than most dev teams I've met in the West over the last few years. Remember these guys are doing something new in building the Indian games industry, they're not worn down by comparative low pay and dev studios going bust all around them
See the announcement here
Oh and the going rate is $10/hr not $2.
Every job outsourced out of America is a victory for the rest of the world.
Wrong - there are many countries where it is plain illegal to hold a monopoly and the state can order a monopoly broken up. England used to be such a case but under pressure from our colonial cousins our Monopolies and Mergers Commission has lost most of its teeth.
Strange thing is we never seem to see the riots on the streets as the American people overthrow their oppressors by force. Just how far do they have to go for you to act? Or do you not really believe in such violence after all? Seems that constitutional right was just talk after all.
Can't you think of anything better to do than find new ways to kill people? America - the new global menace.
Who the hell was Douglas Adams before we heard HHGTTG on the radio? A Doctor Who script editor! That was back in the heyday of the big corporation of course. The Beeb was always a good place for giving new talent a chance to try something. Of course, nowadays you've talk to 26 different companies just to get the coffee machine on manual...
To cut to the chase, what we over here tend to object to is the way that Americans (apparently like yourself) use this "no higher law" argument to violate international law (and it is law however you choose to define it - as a Federated union of States I would have thought you would understand that hierarchy) on a "pick and choose" basis. The USA was one of the prime movers behind the WTO yet violates it when in its best interests but still enforces it on others. You are in violation of several such treaties but still insist on their enforcement elsewhere.
I am not a fan of the WTO, I do not believe we should have signed up to such an American view of the free market and have lobbied my MP to work against it. However the status quo is that we are signatories. One of the things about us Brits is that we believe in playing the game straight. If the rules apply to you they apply to us also. You seem to believe the rules apply to other people also. This high-handed approach invariably leads to a sharp fall.