If I remember correctly, they dispatched the rebel assault in somewhat less than 15 minutes (all except one X wing, who even by Darth's standards was a pretty good pilot, and lucky to boot.)
From my Moldavian friend:
"I am so sick of the stereotyping of my homeland's traditional music. We have plenty of Thrasher Metal bands with nubile young female drummers and our fair share of grandma-drummer polka troupes."
You might remember that a few years later, after France (temporarily) got rid of it's diminuitive British nemesis, England came back for a second round and got beaten again, cementing America's victories and guaranteeing it's manifest destiny after purchasing the bulk of French holdings (and driving colonial Europe (France, England, and Spain) out of the Western Hemisphere for good.
The Germans lost their musical dominance over 200 years ago. And I wouldn't worry about British pop music. Oasis is bound to break up again soon, and you really don't think those thick kneeed, broad shouldered, crooked teeth London girls can compete with our native southern variety?
But you're only seeing the sample of those students from India and the Middle East who came to America to go to school. I'm sure they were pressured by competition out of seats at their native universities, and thus are definitely not the cream of the crop.
The Chinese and Africans are inherently stupider than Indians or Americans at IT work. Therefore we don't have to worry about IT jobs moving there after India's standard of living goes up. Hence, they will remain in poverty while we (and India) remain rich.
It never happened. When capitalism goes wrong, you get things like the United States of America. Or reforms therein. Although this country is headed towards a Nazi Communism, it's because the very rich capitalists in power are slowing pushing it that way. It's usually the inheritors or great wealth that turn communist & fascist.
You see, if the unions control everything, even the overseas labor, the government regulators, and the regulation enforcers, then the bosses can't force the workers "over a barrel", who unfortunately, have no will of their own, and exist only to be helped by the unions.
Is it a coincidence that unionised fields got savaged first? I know it's no coincidence that most of us highly paid, economically mobile, unemployed IT people don't want unions because we've found value in our individuality, even though it sometimes burns us. We know the next six months might be tight, but it sure beats going back to the factory (which, by the way, closed down long before the dotcom bust)
More government to fix government? What if the reforms end up not working or getting ignored? Do we fund a police to police the police who are policing us?
While that may be true, I'm kinda comfortable with my share of the remaining 1% of the wealth, and while they're making more, so am I. If IBM doubles its wealth and I increase mine by only a third, I'm still better off. Call me back when we're out of land and resources, because then, the proportional wealth becomes a problem.
But then we could just kill off all the babies to prevent that from happening, right?
What's wrong with math? Is that what communism is about -- abolishing numbers because some people aren't particularly apt when it comes to arithmatic? That would explain part of the failure of communists to manage well.
But forget about that. Maybe communists are all Einsteins & Newtons. But I don't want to be a communist. Maybe I forgot to add a zero and carry the seven, but it just doesn't add up to me.
Are you going to force me to be a communist? Cause it won't work unless everyone does it, right? Are you planning to take away everyone's liberties or kill everyone who resists. Even if you kill us all off and our children who probably have the same bad-math gene (or at least might a taste for revenge), and burn all the books that profess a different way, there'll still crop up people who disagree with you, even if they're just ignoramouses with a penchant for independent thinking.
So you see, Communism, Real Communism, isn't a middle path. It's a very extreme one, until you're sure you've found a genetic or transcendent way to convert all of humanity to your way of thinking. But you aren't religious are you?
"You" in the above quote is refering to "you", not Your Government taking from me to do what you are unwilling to do yourself. Remember the Levite that crossed the road? He went to the pub and cussed Herod, Caesar, the Sanhedron, and his brother the cop (but not to their faces) for the number of theives on the road these days.
Intellectual property doesn't matter. So maybe if the protectionist IP cops get their way you won't get to watch the TV show on the big screen blessed by our protectors at Disney or Sony. Maybe you won't be able to listen to Britney Spears without paying for the privilege. Maybe you won't be able to use Microsoft Windows without playing by their rules.
We've already seen what happens when software regulation is only slightly onerous; some kid will write a completely better version of the same program in his parents basement over the summer.
So maybe noone has stepped up to the plate and replaced Britney Spears yet, but you can still go outside and play baseball instead of watching Star Wars or American Idol. Unless you live in Seattle. Then you're screwed. Pay for Everquest and chat with other men pretending to be girls on the internet.
I don't know of any 'homophobes'.
Phobia means fear, and homo means same. If homosexuals want everyone to be like them, I could see a reason to fear that the race would die out, but no one is really worried that's going to happen. We have rogue asteriods to combat first.
People aren't afraid of homosexuals. They think it's a really stupid idea to put your dick in someone's anus, and they're annoyed when people who do that try to act like they're special. And they get really angry when other people try to tell their children that it's safe and natural.
You're confused. A (capitalist) government does not control the labor, capital, or manufacturing. You're thinking of a communist government, which, come to think of it, doesn't really care about supply and demand.
If anything, a capitalist government would want employees paid better since payroll tax is easier to collect than corporate profits tax.
What other degree are they going to get? Accounting is the next thing to be outsourced, and after that, there's nothing but Doctors and Lawyers and Insurance Company executives.
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If I remember correctly, they dispatched the rebel assault in somewhat less than 15 minutes (all except one X wing, who even by Darth's standards was a pretty good pilot, and lucky to boot.)
Luke gets a big head thinking he's the son of "The One" and turns to the dark side. I won't defend TNS, but I will defend Star Wars.
ARRRRRRRRRRRGH! Stop the Star Trek techno-babble apologia! Tell us what you think of the movie.
From my Moldavian friend: "I am so sick of the stereotyping of my homeland's traditional music. We have plenty of Thrasher Metal bands with nubile young female drummers and our fair share of grandma-drummer polka troupes."
Maybe the other countries just don't have nearly as many Cuban refugees bad mouthing the regime they've fled.
You might remember that a few years later, after France (temporarily) got rid of it's diminuitive British nemesis, England came back for a second round and got beaten again, cementing America's victories and guaranteeing it's manifest destiny after purchasing the bulk of French holdings (and driving colonial Europe (France, England, and Spain) out of the Western Hemisphere for good.
Yeah, well Rome passed it's zenith when Hannibal came down out of the moutains with his pachiderms. But it still kept growing for the next 500 years.
A pizza with corn on it is still a pizza with corn on it, no matter how how quickly it gets to you.
The Germans lost their musical dominance over 200 years ago. And I wouldn't worry about British pop music. Oasis is bound to break up again soon, and you really don't think those thick kneeed, broad shouldered, crooked teeth London girls can compete with our native southern variety?
But you're only seeing the sample of those students from India and the Middle East who came to America to go to school. I'm sure they were pressured by competition out of seats at their native universities, and thus are definitely not the cream of the crop.
The Chinese and Africans are inherently stupider than Indians or Americans at IT work. Therefore we don't have to worry about IT jobs moving there after India's standard of living goes up. Hence, they will remain in poverty while we (and India) remain rich.
So lets conquer China and teach them english to appease our capitalist masters!
It never happened. When capitalism goes wrong, you get things like the United States of America. Or reforms therein. Although this country is headed towards a Nazi Communism, it's because the very rich capitalists in power are slowing pushing it that way. It's usually the inheritors or great wealth that turn communist & fascist.
peer review doesn't prove anything.
When even the shoe shine boy is telling you to get out of the market, it's a sure signal that it's time to buy.
You see, if the unions control everything, even the overseas labor, the government regulators, and the regulation enforcers, then the bosses can't force the workers "over a barrel", who unfortunately, have no will of their own, and exist only to be helped by the unions.
Is it a coincidence that unionised fields got savaged first? I know it's no coincidence that most of us highly paid, economically mobile, unemployed IT people don't want unions because we've found value in our individuality, even though it sometimes burns us. We know the next six months might be tight, but it sure beats going back to the factory (which, by the way, closed down long before the dotcom bust)
More government to fix government? What if the reforms end up not working or getting ignored? Do we fund a police to police the police who are policing us?
While that may be true, I'm kinda comfortable with my share of the remaining 1% of the wealth, and while they're making more, so am I. If IBM doubles its wealth and I increase mine by only a third, I'm still better off. Call me back when we're out of land and resources, because then, the proportional wealth becomes a problem. But then we could just kill off all the babies to prevent that from happening, right?
What's wrong with math? Is that what communism is about -- abolishing numbers because some people aren't particularly apt when it comes to arithmatic? That would explain part of the failure of communists to manage well.
But forget about that. Maybe communists are all Einsteins & Newtons. But I don't want to be a communist. Maybe I forgot to add a zero and carry the seven, but it just doesn't add up to me.
Are you going to force me to be a communist? Cause it won't work unless everyone does it, right? Are you planning to take away everyone's liberties or kill everyone who resists. Even if you kill us all off and our children who probably have the same bad-math gene (or at least might a taste for revenge), and burn all the books that profess a different way, there'll still crop up people who disagree with you, even if they're just ignoramouses with a penchant for independent thinking.
So you see, Communism, Real Communism, isn't a middle path. It's a very extreme one, until you're sure you've found a genetic or transcendent way to convert all of humanity to your way of thinking. But you aren't religious are you?
"You" in the above quote is refering to "you", not Your Government taking from me to do what you are unwilling to do yourself. Remember the Levite that crossed the road? He went to the pub and cussed Herod, Caesar, the Sanhedron, and his brother the cop (but not to their faces) for the number of theives on the road these days.
Intellectual property doesn't matter. So maybe if the protectionist IP cops get their way you won't get to watch the TV show on the big screen blessed by our protectors at Disney or Sony. Maybe you won't be able to listen to Britney Spears without paying for the privilege. Maybe you won't be able to use Microsoft Windows without playing by their rules.
We've already seen what happens when software regulation is only slightly onerous; some kid will write a completely better version of the same program in his parents basement over the summer.
So maybe noone has stepped up to the plate and replaced Britney Spears yet, but you can still go outside and play baseball instead of watching Star Wars or American Idol. Unless you live in Seattle. Then you're screwed. Pay for Everquest and chat with other men pretending to be girls on the internet.
I don't know of any 'homophobes'. Phobia means fear, and homo means same. If homosexuals want everyone to be like them, I could see a reason to fear that the race would die out, but no one is really worried that's going to happen. We have rogue asteriods to combat first. People aren't afraid of homosexuals. They think it's a really stupid idea to put your dick in someone's anus, and they're annoyed when people who do that try to act like they're special. And they get really angry when other people try to tell their children that it's safe and natural.
You're confused. A (capitalist) government does not control the labor, capital, or manufacturing. You're thinking of a communist government, which, come to think of it, doesn't really care about supply and demand.
If anything, a capitalist government would want employees paid better since payroll tax is easier to collect than corporate profits tax.
What other degree are they going to get? Accounting is the next thing to be outsourced, and after that, there's nothing but Doctors and Lawyers and Insurance Company executives.