Dateline California: Experts crap their pants when they discover the Mt Diablo Buckwheat growing on the side of Mt Diablo. To quote one horticologist, "We thought it was extinct, afterall in the previous 70 years we have not discovered a single one. Then all of a sudden our intern Steve suggested looking around its namesake mountain. Low and behold it was there after all, you should have seen the look on my face when I had to pay Steve that 20 bucks I bet him."
Is it true? If ALL the ice in the world melted the sea would rise by an entired 80 meters??
Ohh, wait, I live in the midwest. Guess I dont have to worry about it.
FYI - throughout the entire history of the planet the environment has been changing. Ice has frozen, and ice has thawed. It's been melting for 10,000 years (as we're still coming out of the last ice age). It will still be changing in a thousand years, with or without us.
"we're adding so much energy to the ocean already (through the greenhouse effect)"???!!!
I'm sorry that I'm the one who had to tell you this, but the greenhouse effect occured on earth long before there was LIFE let alone Humans. We do not create this energy, nor do we add it to the ocean, the sun and atomophere take care of most of that. They were here long before us, and they will be here long after us
But then they couldn't put the same (except not disabled) chip in another card and then show off the huge jump in performance you get for the extra $50.
"You can, combined with a passively-cooled CPU, make a laptop with no moving parts"
Yeah, but I still haven't seen a capacitance based keyboard that I would want to use.
That's what makes them so deplorable. They can't reproduce so they have to recruit. I don't know about you, but I don't appreciate hearing their sales pitch.
"Makes perfect sense to me. You only have the right to secede if you win the war."
Yet, his reason for going to war was that they didn't have the right to secede.... That's what's called circular logic, and it only works in the heads of fools and madmen.
I never said it was a law. That doenst detract from the fact that it is the THE ONLY THING that gave legitamacy to us founding our own government at the time.
Finally, someone who knows about the hypocracy that was Lincoln. We (the USA) said we didn't want to live under England's rule anymore. We draft the Declaration of Independence then fight a war when they refuse to leave.
But, when the Confederate states do not feel that they are being represented and wish to lay out a form of government that will serve their needs, then they are suddenly "rebels" and should not be allowed to have that choice.
To sum it up in one quote, from one of the most important founding documents: " Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
Now, doesn't it seem like Lincoln disagreed completely with this sentence??
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"the big machine in Redmond shows no fear, even in the face of major competition from Linux and FOSS"
They show no fear because there is no "major" competition for them. At least not in Linux and FOSS, the competition they're worried about is in the online portals, like Gooogle.
"If China has 4 times the population of the US, then it should be 4 times as productive as the US. The real question is, why has it taken this long for these countries to "catch up" to their potential? From an economic point of view, it's inexcusable."
It's common sense. Their economic system (marxism merging into a psuedo-communism) has prevented the growth. No system which refuses to reward individual achievement is ever going to reach high levels of achievement.
Makes me think that the only reason it supports all this streaming audio and video from other home computers is because so many people have chipped their XBoxes to give them that functionality.
"If you use some common sense, you will realise that Soviet Union had no reason to invade countries - after all, it was supporting the 3rd world countries, by building factories, hydroelectric dams, providing engineers, training local specialists, etc., while the US was milking the colonies for resources."
Ok, so when Soviet Union uses it's power in another country it is helping, but when the USA does the SAME THING it is imperialism?
The Soviets were helping because they knew that they would get something in return. They also realized that their system would not support itself; in order to maintain a living standard (which they couldn't do) they would need to continue to obtain new property from which to extract resources. This is exactly what colonialist Europe was about in the 1800's, except the Europeans weren't doing it to survive, they were doing it to thrive.
"Soviet Union was no [sic] invading 3rd world countries"
Am I the only one that remembers Afghanistan??
(http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Soviet -U nion-invades-Afghanistan) "The war was regarded by many as an unprovoked invasion of a sovereign country by another. The United Nations General Assembly passed United Nations Resolution 37/37 on November 29, 1983, which stated that the Soviet Union forces should withdraw from Afghanistan. However, others supported the Soviet Union, regarding it as coming to the rescue of an impoverished ally, or as a pre-emptive war against Islamist terrorists."
Sounds awfully familiar, doesn't it? Yet, the USA is the bad guy, while the USSR is the downtrodden, lone hero surrounded by a world of evil.
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So, I suppose the person trying to rob him was the innocent one?
HAHAHAHAHAHA
And violent crime in general is up WAY more than that 2%.
Dateline California: Experts crap their pants when they discover the Mt Diablo Buckwheat growing on the side of Mt Diablo. To quote one horticologist, "We thought it was extinct, afterall in the previous 70 years we have not discovered a single one. Then all of a sudden our intern Steve suggested looking around its namesake mountain. Low and behold it was there after all, you should have seen the look on my face when I had to pay Steve that 20 bucks I bet him."
If you do a little research you will realize that the PS2 has sold MANY more units than the XBox 2.
Would you mind telling us the name of this movie, or the book?
HAHAHA, Thanks man. I haven't laughed like that in a while. It took me a little time, I was already down the page before it it hit, but it was good.
OMG!!! SAY IT AIN'T SO!!!
Is it true? If ALL the ice in the world melted the sea would rise by an entired 80 meters??
Ohh, wait, I live in the midwest. Guess I dont have to worry about it.
FYI - throughout the entire history of the planet the environment has been changing. Ice has frozen, and ice has thawed. It's been melting for 10,000 years (as we're still coming out of the last ice age). It will still be changing in a thousand years, with or without us.
A military action does not a war make. Do you even know the last time the USA declared war on anyone or anything??
"we're adding so much energy to the ocean already (through the greenhouse effect)"???!!! I'm sorry that I'm the one who had to tell you this, but the greenhouse effect occured on earth long before there was LIFE let alone Humans. We do not create this energy, nor do we add it to the ocean, the sun and atomophere take care of most of that. They were here long before us, and they will be here long after us
But then they couldn't put the same (except not disabled) chip in another card and then show off the huge jump in performance you get for the extra $50.
Actually, inside of that hard outer shell is a disc that is indeed "floppy"
"You can, combined with a passively-cooled CPU, make a laptop with no moving parts" Yeah, but I still haven't seen a capacitance based keyboard that I would want to use.
It's great for modders to show off their latest map to the community too.
That's what makes them so deplorable. They can't reproduce so they have to recruit. I don't know about you, but I don't appreciate hearing their sales pitch.
Word.
Didn't they try this with Divx discs?? As I remember it didn't work out so well.
"Makes perfect sense to me. You only have the right to secede if you win the war." Yet, his reason for going to war was that they didn't have the right to secede.... That's what's called circular logic, and it only works in the heads of fools and madmen.
I never said it was a law. That doenst detract from the fact that it is the THE ONLY THING that gave legitamacy to us founding our own government at the time.
Finally, someone who knows about the hypocracy that was Lincoln. We (the USA) said we didn't want to live under England's rule anymore. We draft the Declaration of Independence then fight a war when they refuse to leave.
But, when the Confederate states do not feel that they are being represented and wish to lay out a form of government that will serve their needs, then they are suddenly "rebels" and should not be allowed to have that choice.
To sum it up in one quote, from one of the most important founding documents:
" Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
Now, doesn't it seem like Lincoln disagreed completely with this sentence??
"the big machine in Redmond shows no fear, even in the face of major competition from Linux and FOSS"
They show no fear because there is no "major" competition for them. At least not in Linux and FOSS, the competition they're worried about is in the online portals, like Gooogle.
"If China has 4 times the population of the US, then it should be 4 times as productive as the US. The real question is, why has it taken this long for these countries to "catch up" to their potential? From an economic point of view, it's inexcusable."
It's common sense. Their economic system (marxism merging into a psuedo-communism) has prevented the growth. No system which refuses to reward individual achievement is ever going to reach high levels of achievement.
Makes me think that the only reason it supports all this streaming audio and video from other home computers is because so many people have chipped their XBoxes to give them that functionality.
he deserves it.
"If you use some common sense, you will realise that Soviet Union had no reason to invade countries - after all, it was supporting the 3rd world countries, by building factories, hydroelectric dams, providing engineers, training local specialists, etc., while the US was milking the colonies for resources."
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Ok, so when Soviet Union uses it's power in another country it is helping, but when the USA does the SAME THING it is imperialism?
The Soviets were helping because they knew that they would get something in return. They also realized that their system would not support itself; in order to maintain a living standard (which they couldn't do) they would need to continue to obtain new property from which to extract resources. This is exactly what colonialist Europe was about in the 1800's, except the Europeans weren't doing it to survive, they were doing it to thrive.
"Soviet Union was no [sic] invading 3rd world countries"
Am I the only one that remembers Afghanistan??
(http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Sovie
"The war was regarded by many as an unprovoked invasion of a sovereign country by another. The United Nations General Assembly passed United Nations Resolution 37/37 on November 29, 1983, which stated that the Soviet Union forces should withdraw from Afghanistan. However, others supported the Soviet Union, regarding it as coming to the rescue of an impoverished ally, or as a pre-emptive war against Islamist terrorists."
Sounds awfully familiar, doesn't it? Yet, the USA is the bad guy, while the USSR is the downtrodden, lone hero surrounded by a world of evil.