Hmmm.
Ok now this is creeping me out.
RFID, Bluetooth, implantable displays & smartchips. What's next? Credit cards that can be implanted into your arm? Wave your hand to make purchases?
Hello!? Any of this sound familiar?
Well.
On the gripping hand you're stuck in an enclosed environment for three months with one guy who eats snails, another who eats sauerkraut and four who eat borscht.
Air's getting might thick in there after a couple days.
Well speaking as a non-native American living in the tax hell that is New Jersey I can't understand anything spoken by someone under the age of 25.
In the internet age curmudgeonship comes early.
America is the richest because it's big? Wow! Hey Einstein! What about India? China? I hadn't realized that they were so small..... lol.
Ahhh. Texas. Never been there. The problem with you jackass European types is that you know absolutely nothing about America. And what you *think* you know, is usually completely wrong.
1. At least Americans *fought* in Iraq. Just like in the invasion of Normandy, we Americans got the tough job. How does it feel like being handed puff jobs?
2. SAS? Not really. We've got many more, and far better equipped, forces. Frankly we can't have you on the same battlefield as American soldiers. You're too backward.
3. Well well well. How informative.
4. America is strong because of it's numbers? Now that is funny.
5. Britain has 4th largest? Really? You don't say? Isn't America the largest? Isn't the state of California the 5th? Is there any relevance in your statement?
6. Football? ROFLMAO! Only in Europe would that be an invective. hehehehHAHHAHAHA!
7. When I served in the USMC before the fall of the USSR. Now, to return the favor, when did YOU serve to protect me? Never? Thought so.
a. Well congratulations then. You pay for tv. Now that is an accomplishment for the failure that is modern Britain eh?
b. ROFLMAO! I'd answer but there was nothing either coherent or intelligent in that paragraph.
c. I see you had to reach back to WWII. That does say something doesn't it?
What *ancestors* you boob. It's only been 60 years. We're not talking about the Hundred Years War or any such thing.
We're talking about something that started in 1946 right up the the dissolution of the USSR.
As for your statement on the "provided troops in West Germany", well congratulations! So what. And again so what about the "major trading partners". Not to put a fine point on it but England wasn't a major trading partner. You were a major *charity case*. No duh eh?
Even then I wrote specifically that I'm willing to write off the WWII debts right? Or didn't you read that part before you wrote that bit of utter nonsense? Nothing like putting up a strawman to make your argument easier eh?
Just like a deadbeat to try and squirm out of paying. Let's face facts here. America put it's collective ass on the line to defend you European weenies while you did your level best avoid getting involved. As far as I'm concerned Europe, the EU, NATO and the UN can all go to hell. Whether you deadbeats ever do pay your fair share means nothing to me.... You want out of the "special relationship"? Well guess what?... So do WE. Hmmm. How about this. Next time your ass is on the line and your nation is going into the last swirl of the toilet bowl, don't call us.
Let's split everything down the middle and call it quits.
We'll pay you for what BBC shows we've gotten.
You'll pay us for what American TV shows you've gotten.
Then you can pay us your portion of the $7 trillion spent over the last 60 years defending your ass from the USSR.
I would include the billions from WWII that were never repaid, but you go ahead and pay your share of the $7 trillion and I'll go ahead and write WWII debt off.
Now that's a deal! You won't get a better deal from anyone else in the world!
And I mean that in an absolutely literal sense.
That's ridiculous nonsense being spouted by someone who has probably never served a day in any military on earth. Learn something before you open pie hole.
Reflexes mean *nothing* to a grunt.
Tactical thinking means *everything*.
The reasons behind the British success is essentially the fact that they don't have anything to do with the real problem areas which are all handled by Americans. The other reason is that the British troops simply turn a blind eye to most anything that goes on. This has a tendency of not making waves, which does make things easy to manage, but doesn't actually move forward any real progress towards democracy.
Frankly, I'll take the USMC approach. It'll be painful now, but it'll work out in the end.
Carter was a worthless jackass who had the belief he was Lincoln reborn. One of the friends he made during his presidency was Pol Pot of "The Killing Fields" fame.
Reagan had to go underground to fund the Contras because the Democratic controlled Congress couldn't give a rat-f* about anyone else. The Democratic controlled Congress never did give a rat-f* about anything or anyone.
No offense bu investing money into researching fusion is pretty stupid IMHO. In case nobody noticed we're all sitting atop thin skin of solid rock floating on top of a space-borne ball of **molten lava**.
WTF! Can we just drill a couple thousand holes in the ground, run some pipes, attach a heat exchanger and some turbines and call it a day?
HDR Geothermal (Hot Dry Rock). What the hell.
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Hmmm. Ok now this is creeping me out. RFID, Bluetooth, implantable displays & smartchips. What's next? Credit cards that can be implanted into your arm? Wave your hand to make purchases? Hello!? Any of this sound familiar?
Hah! This is making my strategy of running Windows 3.1 look smart! Take that new and improved operating systems!
Soooooo. You're training your kids into a Pavlovian response? Is this an experiment?
Well. On the gripping hand you're stuck in an enclosed environment for three months with one guy who eats snails, another who eats sauerkraut and four who eat borscht. Air's getting might thick in there after a couple days.
Well speaking as a non-native American living in the tax hell that is New Jersey I can't understand anything spoken by someone under the age of 25. In the internet age curmudgeonship comes early.
America is the richest because it's big? Wow! Hey Einstein! What about India? China? I hadn't realized that they were so small ..... lol.
Ahhh. Texas. Never been there. The problem with you jackass European types is that you know absolutely nothing about America. And what you *think* you know, is usually completely wrong.
1. At least Americans *fought* in Iraq. Just like in the invasion of Normandy, we Americans got the tough job. How does it feel like being handed puff jobs? 2. SAS? Not really. We've got many more, and far better equipped, forces. Frankly we can't have you on the same battlefield as American soldiers. You're too backward. 3. Well well well. How informative. 4. America is strong because of it's numbers? Now that is funny. 5. Britain has 4th largest? Really? You don't say? Isn't America the largest? Isn't the state of California the 5th? Is there any relevance in your statement? 6. Football? ROFLMAO! Only in Europe would that be an invective. hehehehHAHHAHAHA! 7. When I served in the USMC before the fall of the USSR. Now, to return the favor, when did YOU serve to protect me? Never? Thought so.
a. Well congratulations then. You pay for tv. Now that is an accomplishment for the failure that is modern Britain eh? b. ROFLMAO! I'd answer but there was nothing either coherent or intelligent in that paragraph. c. I see you had to reach back to WWII. That does say something doesn't it?
What *ancestors* you boob. It's only been 60 years. We're not talking about the Hundred Years War or any such thing. We're talking about something that started in 1946 right up the the dissolution of the USSR. As for your statement on the "provided troops in West Germany", well congratulations! So what. And again so what about the "major trading partners". Not to put a fine point on it but England wasn't a major trading partner. You were a major *charity case*. No duh eh? Even then I wrote specifically that I'm willing to write off the WWII debts right? Or didn't you read that part before you wrote that bit of utter nonsense? Nothing like putting up a strawman to make your argument easier eh? Just like a deadbeat to try and squirm out of paying. Let's face facts here. America put it's collective ass on the line to defend you European weenies while you did your level best avoid getting involved. As far as I'm concerned Europe, the EU, NATO and the UN can all go to hell. Whether you deadbeats ever do pay your fair share means nothing to me. ... You want out of the "special relationship"? Well guess what? ... So do WE. Hmmm. How about this. Next time your ass is on the line and your nation is going into the last swirl of the toilet bowl, don't call us.
Let's split everything down the middle and call it quits. We'll pay you for what BBC shows we've gotten. You'll pay us for what American TV shows you've gotten. Then you can pay us your portion of the $7 trillion spent over the last 60 years defending your ass from the USSR. I would include the billions from WWII that were never repaid, but you go ahead and pay your share of the $7 trillion and I'll go ahead and write WWII debt off. Now that's a deal! You won't get a better deal from anyone else in the world! And I mean that in an absolutely literal sense.
That's ridiculous nonsense being spouted by someone who has probably never served a day in any military on earth. Learn something before you open pie hole. Reflexes mean *nothing* to a grunt. Tactical thinking means *everything*.
The reasons behind the British success is essentially the fact that they don't have anything to do with the real problem areas which are all handled by Americans. The other reason is that the British troops simply turn a blind eye to most anything that goes on. This has a tendency of not making waves, which does make things easy to manage, but doesn't actually move forward any real progress towards democracy. Frankly, I'll take the USMC approach. It'll be painful now, but it'll work out in the end.
So if an American bank exchanges $1 million worth of Euros for $1 million worth of dollars someone other than that bank ends up with the dollars?
Amazing! You'd think those wogs would have figured out how to use *currency exchange* services eh? Bloody foreigners! lol.
Carter was a worthless jackass who had the belief he was Lincoln reborn. One of the friends he made during his presidency was Pol Pot of "The Killing Fields" fame. Reagan had to go underground to fund the Contras because the Democratic controlled Congress couldn't give a rat-f* about anyone else. The Democratic controlled Congress never did give a rat-f* about anything or anyone.
No offense bu investing money into researching fusion is pretty stupid IMHO. In case nobody noticed we're all sitting atop thin skin of solid rock floating on top of a space-borne ball of **molten lava**. WTF! Can we just drill a couple thousand holes in the ground, run some pipes, attach a heat exchanger and some turbines and call it a day? HDR Geothermal (Hot Dry Rock). What the hell.