"Iran - May have nukes or very close - No invasion.
NK - May have nukes or very close - No invasion.
Iraq - Everyone pretended they could have nukes, but most people knew they didn't - Invasion!"
You're comparing apples to colonoscopies. Iraq didn't have the ability to kill a half a million people and do trillions in damage in a matter of a few hours. NK is by far worse to it's own people, but hadn't invaded anyone for over 50 years. Iraq invaded two of her neighbors in 30 years.
Many people shove their fingers in their ears and close their eyes about why we took out Saddam. They change the subject to oil, 9/11, missing WMDs while ignoring the fact that the sanctions and no-fly zones were about to go away. No inspections would have meant the WMD programs would have been in full swing. Russia and China had billions in arms deals waiting for those sanctions to end. The other primary UN objectors to us taking out Saddam also had billions in oil concessions and debts that they would lose if we did. But let's not have that get in the way of a good smug off.
We spend so that our allies don't have to. They can have enviable social programs because they know Uncle Sam has their back. Our military budget, in a very real way, is that of the free world. If we left the EU to fend for itself against an increasingly cranky Russia, i think we'd see their spending habits change.
They seem to be meaningless and create problems like WhiteHouse.com/.gov. i'd much rather know that www.Coca-Cola belongs to Coca-Cola and not "Jeff who had 20$ and got to it first".
If we had some kind of enforcement of what could be on what TLD, it would make sense. As it is, only.gov,.mil and.edu are meaningful. Even the national TLDs are fudgable.
Having a TLD of.adlt or.prn would allow parents and schools to block pr0n from their kids. Then if a site had porn on it, and it didn't have an appropriate TLD, you could fine it or take it down for a day or two. This would be to the advantage of the porn sites because their customers could easily find the product. "in *.prn: Chasey Lane".
If it is controlled by a human, via a joystick or psionic helmet/implant... it is NOT a robot. UAVs are not robots. The "bots" in Robot Wars were not robots, they were RC cars with weapons.
Your car isn't a robot if you are controlling it, directly or remotely. If your car was sensing it's environment and navigating on it's own, then it would be a robot.
Who'da thought Honda would be responsible for building the first Veritech fighters?
Erm, do you realize socialism and fascism are pretty much polar opposites? Just because Hitler called it National Socialism, doesn't mean that it was socialist. Fascism is corporatism (corporate welfare). Corporate welfare is the domain of conservatives, at least in the US.
Is technology leading to social change, specifically to give me more time. Let's have some technology that lets me work 35 hour work weeks, or have every other Friday off. i doubt the powers that be have any such interest. If we become more efficient, they'll just make us make more widgets in the same amount of time and fire some people. That's what they've done so far.
Right, because it would have made more sense for them to land in our past with their hyperspace technology and for that technological gap to have NO EFFECT ON US WHATSOEVER.
So, yes, you're the only one. That makes you special and better than the rest of us plebes, so stop complaining and enjoy your awesomeness.
Edward is dead wrong about one thing though. ALL races/cultures have identified themselves as "human" and everyone else as "other", It's not unique to whites. We didn't invent it. The names of the Native American tribes (gave themselves) meant human. Human in the sense of "wrong to kill".
Adblock isn't bloat, imo, it's something i installed for a purpose. Adding to the size of Firefox isn't worthy of the epithet of bloat. i thought bloat is when a program becomes needlessly/pointlessly bigger. If adblock itself is poorly written such that it's getting bigger and slower, then maybe. FF itself is fairly trim until you start adding the toys that make it Firefox.
What are the adservers? Is there a list somewhere?
And for the uninitiated, how does one find and add entries to the hosts file?
In Bioshock, i delighted in watching the Big Daddies tear through splicers. The enrage power would make splicers fight each other. i'd place a tornado (?) trap in front of me, cast enrage on the goons. One good would kill the other, the weakened winner would come at me and die on the trap. Hacking cameras and turrets and the helicopter things was a blast. Once in a while i hear the alarms go off and all hell would break loose as my minions did the work.
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You *would* hear your own engines... if the engines are the sort that would make noise.
"Iran - May have nukes or very close - No invasion.
NK - May have nukes or very close - No invasion.
Iraq - Everyone pretended they could have nukes, but most people knew they didn't - Invasion!"
You're comparing apples to colonoscopies. Iraq didn't have the ability to kill a half a million people and do trillions in damage in a matter of a few hours. NK is by far worse to it's own people, but hadn't invaded anyone for over 50 years. Iraq invaded two of her neighbors in 30 years.
Many people shove their fingers in their ears and close their eyes about why we took out Saddam. They change the subject to oil, 9/11, missing WMDs while ignoring the fact that the sanctions and no-fly zones were about to go away. No inspections would have meant the WMD programs would have been in full swing. Russia and China had billions in arms deals waiting for those sanctions to end. The other primary UN objectors to us taking out Saddam also had billions in oil concessions and debts that they would lose if we did. But let's not have that get in the way of a good smug off.
Past tense, not infinitive. He doesn't die regularly or all the time. He died just the one time.
We spend so that our allies don't have to. They can have enviable social programs because they know Uncle Sam has their back. Our military budget, in a very real way, is that of the free world. If we left the EU to fend for itself against an increasingly cranky Russia, i think we'd see their spending habits change.
Why do we have the TLDs?
They seem to be meaningless and create problems like WhiteHouse.com/.gov. i'd much rather know that www.Coca-Cola belongs to Coca-Cola and not "Jeff who had 20$ and got to it first".
If we had some kind of enforcement of what could be on what TLD, it would make sense. As it is, only .gov, .mil and .edu are meaningful. Even the national TLDs are fudgable.
Having a TLD of .adlt or .prn would allow parents and schools to block pr0n from their kids. Then if a site had porn on it, and it didn't have an appropriate TLD, you could fine it or take it down for a day or two. This would be to the advantage of the porn sites because their customers could easily find the product. "in *.prn: Chasey Lane".
If it is controlled by a human, via a joystick or psionic helmet/implant... it is NOT a robot. UAVs are not robots. The "bots" in Robot Wars were not robots, they were RC cars with weapons.
Your car isn't a robot if you are controlling it, directly or remotely. If your car was sensing it's environment and navigating on it's own, then it would be a robot.
Who'da thought Honda would be responsible for building the first Veritech fighters?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1Xid_zLP4k
i found a point in the set: .02
Jews, broads and negroes don't have feelings either.
Can means should!
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Erm, do you realize socialism and fascism are pretty much polar opposites? Just because Hitler called it National Socialism, doesn't mean that it was socialist. Fascism is corporatism (corporate welfare). Corporate welfare is the domain of conservatives, at least in the US.
It wasn't that violent. It had some short bursts of violence, but compared to the average Schwarzenegger movie it was tame.
Solution: Two versions
Have a theatrical version at PG 13, and a home version of R. Or release both in the theatres at the same time, and put R on fewer screens.
Some comic movies don't warrant an R ever (Spiderman), some demand it (Punisher).
Piracy is ship to ship armed robbery.
Every time WE use THEIR word for copyright infringement/their refusal to join the late 20th century, we give it legitimacy.
Every song played on the radio is a commercial. So last.fm wasn't advert(isment) free.
Last.fm To Start Charging International Users, Lasers
I am sitting
In the morning
At the diner
On the corner
I am waiting
At the counter
For the man
To pour the coffee
And he fills it
Only halfway
And before
I even argue
He is looking
Out the window
At somebody
Coming in....
i wish i had mod points for you.
+1 Awesome
Is technology leading to social change, specifically to give me more time. Let's have some technology that lets me work 35 hour work weeks, or have every other Friday off. i doubt the powers that be have any such interest. If we become more efficient, they'll just make us make more widgets in the same amount of time and fire some people. That's what they've done so far.
Maybe he was adding the element of truth expressed in a parallel form to enhance the joke. That seems more likely than him being stupid.
Right, because it would have made more sense for them to land in our past with their hyperspace technology and for that technological gap to have NO EFFECT ON US WHATSOEVER.
So, yes, you're the only one. That makes you special and better than the rest of us plebes, so stop complaining and enjoy your awesomeness.
Truly. Human overpopulation is a self correcting problem if it gets bad enough.
Edward is dead wrong about one thing though. ALL races/cultures have identified themselves as "human" and everyone else as "other", It's not unique to whites. We didn't invent it. The names of the Native American tribes (gave themselves) meant human. Human in the sense of "wrong to kill".
Adblock isn't bloat, imo, it's something i installed for a purpose. Adding to the size of Firefox isn't worthy of the epithet of bloat. i thought bloat is when a program becomes needlessly/pointlessly bigger. If adblock itself is poorly written such that it's getting bigger and slower, then maybe. FF itself is fairly trim until you start adding the toys that make it Firefox.
What are the adservers? Is there a list somewhere?
And for the uninitiated, how does one find and add entries to the hosts file?
*reads the article*
Had it been a fruit bat, i think Eric would have been a perfect name.
In Bioshock, i delighted in watching the Big Daddies tear through splicers. The enrage power would make splicers fight each other. i'd place a tornado (?) trap in front of me, cast enrage on the goons. One good would kill the other, the weakened winner would come at me and die on the trap. Hacking cameras and turrets and the helicopter things was a blast. Once in a while i hear the alarms go off and all hell would break loose as my minions did the work.
And Heaven, Nirvana, Olympus and the like aren't?
i got my girlfriend to shave her pubes into a Mobius Strip