There's a pretty significant difference between being "North American" and "American". One refers to being born on a continent, the other (whether people like it or not) refers to citizenship in a specific country.
You missed the point, the post I was responding to seemed to say that the life we're looking for on Mars has to have stray televisions about the place. Clearly that's not what we're looking for.
Yeah, some people get upset, not just in Canada or even North America, by Americans calling themselves Americans. I'm not sure what else they expect us to call ourselves, United Statians?
I saw a huge stack of these things in Best Buy a few weeks ago near the registers. The people in front of me were talking about getting one, but then they pretty much decided they were worthless. I have to admit I largely agree, but then again I don't own any picture frames digital or otherwise.
Even the word 'is' isn't necessarily a something that is necessarily obvious. From what we knew until recently, there could very well have been some bacteria living someplace deep underground.
Yeah, a lot of airports have free wifi too. Some of them still charge something though, quite unfortunately. Now if only airports had more power plugs about!
You do realize they can't hit anything beyond the Rockies yet, right? The rocket technology they've stolen from us now will certainly help them reach all the way to D.C.
I'm sure a lot of those details will be kept secret for a while in some FBI file. You don't want your enemies to know how you got their spy. For all we know we could have somebody over in China giving us information on Chinese spies.
Dumping their investments in the US is as bad for them, if not worse, than it would be for the US. Ideologically our two nations are incompatible, but we both have a lot to gain from our relationship and a lot to lose if it ends.
By being involved with China, we have an opportunity to influence them. Do you seriously think that just ignoring the problem makes it go away? For decades we've not had relations with various countries around the world, and it's done nothing at all. When we are in there, spreading our Wal-Marts, McDonalds, rock and roll, and blue jeans, we can subvert other nations so the people start to like us even if their government doesn't. Propaganda and censorship doesn't work so well when we're in there giving a different story. All those chinese students coming over here is also important, since we can show them a better way while they're here and free. When they go back, they take those ideas with them. Now sure, some of them will end up being spies, and we need to do more about stopping that, but breaking off all economic and political relations with China will be bad for us and them.
I would certainly hope that every worker in our national space and military industries would have to undergo background checks and periodic lie detector tests, just like they use in the CIA.
I think there's definitely some people that are only interested in a quick buck, but a lot of investors are looking long-term.
In any case, yes, Yahoo's stock will take a hit, but the company will survive. Frankly, it's probably a good time to buy their stock once everyone that thought microsoft would take them over dumps theirs.
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I think the key word there is employer. It doesn't sound like the guy who did the trading worked for the company.
Yeah, I agree, it's a good movie. I think I saw it once on Comedy Central even, so you don't even need Netflix to watch it.
I imagine his legal fees will cut into the profits as well.
Quick, submit a new story to /., "Google uses lots of internet bandwidth".
There's a pretty significant difference between being "North American" and "American". One refers to being born on a continent, the other (whether people like it or not) refers to citizenship in a specific country.
You missed the point, the post I was responding to seemed to say that the life we're looking for on Mars has to have stray televisions about the place. Clearly that's not what we're looking for.
Yeah, some people get upset, not just in Canada or even North America, by Americans calling themselves Americans. I'm not sure what else they expect us to call ourselves, United Statians?
I saw a huge stack of these things in Best Buy a few weeks ago near the registers. The people in front of me were talking about getting one, but then they pretty much decided they were worthless. I have to admit I largely agree, but then again I don't own any picture frames digital or otherwise.
Better than free is getting paid to do or get something you want.
I would think the air pressure would be more harsh than the actual makeup of the atmosphere.
There's a difference between life and advanced, intelligent life.
Even the word 'is' isn't necessarily a something that is necessarily obvious. From what we knew until recently, there could very well have been some bacteria living someplace deep underground.
Yeah... it sounds more like they created a little event horizon for light. There's no gravity involved whatsoever, so it's not a black hole.
Yeah, a lot of airports have free wifi too. Some of them still charge something though, quite unfortunately. Now if only airports had more power plugs about!
So yeah, we should totally use nukes. Instant vaporization ftw?
Ars Technica has more information on the three versions.
You do realize they can't hit anything beyond the Rockies yet, right? The rocket technology they've stolen from us now will certainly help them reach all the way to D.C.
Sweet, no more need for a hack to stop the menubar from being transparent. Now if only they'd make the dock look like it did in 10.4...
You do realize that rocket technology can be used in ICBMs?
Well, I know the checks aren't always perfect, but clearly they need some improvement.
I'm sure a lot of those details will be kept secret for a while in some FBI file. You don't want your enemies to know how you got their spy. For all we know we could have somebody over in China giving us information on Chinese spies.
Dumping their investments in the US is as bad for them, if not worse, than it would be for the US. Ideologically our two nations are incompatible, but we both have a lot to gain from our relationship and a lot to lose if it ends.
By being involved with China, we have an opportunity to influence them. Do you seriously think that just ignoring the problem makes it go away? For decades we've not had relations with various countries around the world, and it's done nothing at all. When we are in there, spreading our Wal-Marts, McDonalds, rock and roll, and blue jeans, we can subvert other nations so the people start to like us even if their government doesn't. Propaganda and censorship doesn't work so well when we're in there giving a different story. All those chinese students coming over here is also important, since we can show them a better way while they're here and free. When they go back, they take those ideas with them. Now sure, some of them will end up being spies, and we need to do more about stopping that, but breaking off all economic and political relations with China will be bad for us and them.
I would certainly hope that every worker in our national space and military industries would have to undergo background checks and periodic lie detector tests, just like they use in the CIA.
I think there's definitely some people that are only interested in a quick buck, but a lot of investors are looking long-term.
In any case, yes, Yahoo's stock will take a hit, but the company will survive. Frankly, it's probably a good time to buy their stock once everyone that thought microsoft would take them over dumps theirs.