I've always thought the Swiss above all else as rational and logical.
Yes, the country that banned motor racing for over 50 years is rational and logical.
In the post-911 world, we kill'em all and let God sort them out. Actually, that sentiment is quite old, circa 1209. Sometimes the old ways are the best ways.
Living far from work is a choice, one which I choose not to make. You can, too. Yes, if only the economics of the choice were distance traveled and smug douche-bagness radiated life would be so simple. However, some people with children prefer to live outside of the urban areas where schools are becoming penal facilities.
so in the next war, rights are trampled a little less. This has held true until, arguably, the current war in Iraq. Please be sure to explain that to the Japanese Americans living on the West Coast during the early 1940's.
Oy, there is no such thing as society. You ought to be applauding this because it is good for the individual, and protects the right to enter into and enforce contracts. Negotiation and trade of your labour and creative works by mutual consent. Actually, the downside is everybody who didn't get a seat at the table of the PF/EMI negotiations and gets stuck buying all of momentary lapse of reason just to get learning to fly.
OMG!!!!!
Someone is using womens bodies to advertise!!!!!!!
What, you just arrive on our planet? Almost everything uses womens bodies to advertise. Oh, is that all? I thought perhaps the parent poster was claiming GoDaddy was rendering human female corpses into paint and then making their advertisements with said paint. But using attractive women to sell your product, that was old hat before television became popular so there's no problem there.
I had an '05 Chevy Cobalt...I must say, it worked really well in the snow and when fishtailing Dear gods man, it was a front engine front wheel drive car, how did you get it to fishtail w/out using the e-brake?
I'm saying that the "permanent employment" cookie is dangled like it's a treat, a prize, something worth selling myself out for. But that is precisely how and why this opportunity has arisen. Someone else had "permanent employment," but then management decided--through some undisclosed analysis--that that person/those people had to go. Then they found out that they needed this work function, therefore I'm getting a phone call from someone who clearly doesn't understand the job requirements, let alone the fact that they, too, are the victims of a "contract-to-hire" scam. Dude, it isn't just IT, I did chemical analysis until the housing market went flatline, then hey let's fire half of the R&D staff, so now I'm getting similar calls b/c I listed some of my skills on a resume at Monster.com. Best part I've got local companies running ads saying that want 5+ yrs experience in the analyses I've been doing 3 yrs of work in. So long story made shorter, there's a whole universe of PHBs ditching relatively inexperienced people, looking to hire a freelancer with a magic bullet, and then bitch about how there's a lack of experienced people. Ie they don't believe in investing in human captital, and can't figure out why there aren't any competent people.
I'm sure someone said the same thing when pilots started bombing from aircraft flying 30,000 feet above, when artillerymen started fireing shells from 20 miles behind the lines, and when archers started shooting arrows instead of wading in and hacking with swords. Actually, such brilliant things were said after the invention of the cross bow and the machine gun. And let us not forget the war to end all wars. Peace lasted, what two decades?
You've underestimated that. The U.S. government has bombed or invaded 24 countries since the 2nd world war. The U.S. government has killed or caused the deaths of more than 11,000,000 people since then. In some ways, the U.S. government is the most violent government that has ever existed. If by in some ways you mean barring the Red Chinese, the Soviets, the Khmer Rouge, the Rwandans, Imperial Britain, or just for Godwin's sake the Nazi's then yes you are correct. Otherwise you're a troll.
But the US is hardly a place I would hold up as an example of a friendly, welcoming approach to immigration Please provide a country that does meet your expectations of a friendly, welcoming approach to immigration. Also, NIMBY is cowardly.
My favorite kind of bicyclist are the ones who think stop signs don't apply to them. Yes, I'm talking to you Mr Lance Armstrong wannabe in your yellow jersey. The red octagon you shot past read stop and that meant you as well.
I really hate being lumped in with a group of smug assholes just because of my laptop choice. I totally know how you feel. I drive a BMW not because I am an asshat, but b/c I wanted a car with a manual transmission that had some pep. Then everybody thought since I drive a BMW, I must be a prick. Fortunately, pricks now prefer to drive Audis, so in time some other computer will attract the fancy of smug assholes and no one will think any less of your Mac ownership.
In the 21st century, it's not military might that will matter, but economic might. And China is well-positioned. Russia and China shares a common enemy -- the US -- so it make sense they would combine resources and efforts to stand against the US and possibly Europe. Don't mistake kleptocrats seeking to hoard/hide their money in places where a new Russian regime can't forcibly seize as some sort of complicated ploy for world domination. Russia faces a very severe demographic brick wall, and China will do so in 20-50 years. That will truly be nightmarish.
There was a Senatorial election here in Illinois a few years back, and the Republican candidate had some sort of sex scandal (Jack Ryan, seven of Nine's now ex-husband if I remember correctly) and he dropped out of the race. The Democrats were running a black man (Obama maybe? My memory isn't too clear about who).
Anyway, the Republicans wound up running a black guy from (again, IIRC) Maryland who had never stepped foot in Illinois in his life. A wag on the radio said "Those Republicans! First they couldn't find Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan, then they couldn't find WMDs in Iraq, now they can't even find a black man in Chicago!" Yes, that sex scandal was the tawdry things Jeri accused Jack of in their divorce proceedings(take their veracity with a grain of salt as any divorce lawyer can tell you), and yes that was the Senate race Barack Obama went on to win against Alan Keyes. So I hope our president sends 7 of 9 a x-mas card every year.
Ah I get it: anything to the left of Rush Limbaugh is "Liberal Statist," so we can handily paint public health care, women's rights, or any form of government intervention at all with the same shade of "Kim Jong Il Red."
Handy! Saves a lot of messy "thinking" and "rational debate."
Actually, what I did there was conflate liberal statism, the same way the parent post I was referring to had conflated anarchy with libertarianism. I'm not sure when/. got taken over by kosbots such that libertarian == anarchist, but I try to stem the tide and follow up the libertarian utopia == somalia w/ an equally apt liberal statism == DPRK. However, I see what you did there w/ the any form of govt. intervention statement proves you are also a true believer in the libertarian == anarchist. It doesn't. Hope that helps.
If libertarian ideas really worked, then we'd expect Somalia to be a nice place to live. But it isn't. Conversely, if liberal statist ideas really worked the DPRK would be a great place to live, but it isn't. I know, I know don't feed the trolls.
Not sure why parent is a troll, but just to drive the point home.
I stopped reading you mentioned "ideologically colorblind" and wikipedia in the same sentence.
I guess you missed the part where Krugman is a radical leftist who writes for the New York Times and supports all manner of silly leftist ideals. Now quoted from the wiki page cited by the grand parent post as "ideologically colorblind". Krugman considers himself a liberal, calling one of his books and his New York Times blog: "The Conscience of a Liberal".[12]Now since parent post pointed this fact out why the troll mod?
Politics drives it. In the US, no politician dares look soft on crime. Advocating ridiculously long sentences is a quick and easy way to bolster an image. And failing to be tough is an even quicker way to end a political career. Huckabee is getting flak because one man he let out early has shot and killed 4 police officers. Type "Dukakis" into a search engine and one of the first things that shows up is Willie Horton. You are half right. Looking tough on crime never hurts, on the other hand, most people would agree that unsupervised furloughs for people spending life in prison for murder may not be the best idea(thus William Horton).
But then, your argument seems to be "we can't know for sure what it would be without us, so we should rape it all we want." Actually, my argument is let me know what the parameters of the problem are so I can seek a solution rather than being given the solution of don't change a thing and working backwards towards a problem. But when they are asked to take personal responsibility about their impact on the environment, they refuse to take any responsibility. Why is that? Because they smell a power grab in the name of saving the planet(spotted owl, polar bear, etc) and naturally reject such a grab. Hope that helps.
I think the 'existence of taboos as evidence of wrongness' idea is wrong Ugg, here's just a few(not that I have anything against homosexuals), eating raw pork and incest.
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How the fuck was my previous question off-topic? This little rant is off-topic, so now mods you can see the difference.
Which raises(not begs) the questions, How good is this missile against submarines? and How many submarines does China have?
I've always thought the Swiss above all else as rational and logical.
Yes, the country that banned motor racing for over 50 years is rational and logical.
In the post-911 world, we kill'em all and let God sort them out.
Actually, that sentiment is quite old, circa 1209. Sometimes the old ways are the best ways.
Living far from work is a choice, one which I choose not to make. You can, too.
Yes, if only the economics of the choice were distance traveled and smug douche-bagness radiated life would be so simple. However, some people with children prefer to live outside of the urban areas where schools are becoming penal facilities.
so in the next war, rights are trampled a little less. This has held true until, arguably, the current war in Iraq.
Please be sure to explain that to the Japanese Americans living on the West Coast during the early 1940's.
Oy, there is no such thing as society. You ought to be applauding this because it is good for the individual, and protects the right to enter into and enforce contracts. Negotiation and trade of your labour and creative works by mutual consent.
Actually, the downside is everybody who didn't get a seat at the table of the PF/EMI negotiations and gets stuck buying all of momentary lapse of reason just to get learning to fly.
OMG!!!!! Someone is using womens bodies to advertise!!!!!!! What, you just arrive on our planet? Almost everything uses womens bodies to advertise.
Oh, is that all? I thought perhaps the parent poster was claiming GoDaddy was rendering human female corpses into paint and then making their advertisements with said paint. But using attractive women to sell your product, that was old hat before television became popular so there's no problem there.
I had an '05 Chevy Cobalt...I must say, it worked really well in the snow and when fishtailing
Dear gods man, it was a front engine front wheel drive car, how did you get it to fishtail w/out using the e-brake?
I'm saying that the "permanent employment" cookie is dangled like it's a treat, a prize, something worth selling myself out for. But that is precisely how and why this opportunity has arisen. Someone else had "permanent employment," but then management decided--through some undisclosed analysis--that that person/those people had to go. Then they found out that they needed this work function, therefore I'm getting a phone call from someone who clearly doesn't understand the job requirements, let alone the fact that they, too, are the victims of a "contract-to-hire" scam.
Dude, it isn't just IT, I did chemical analysis until the housing market went flatline, then hey let's fire half of the R&D staff, so now I'm getting similar calls b/c I listed some of my skills on a resume at Monster.com. Best part I've got local companies running ads saying that want 5+ yrs experience in the analyses I've been doing 3 yrs of work in. So long story made shorter, there's a whole universe of PHBs ditching relatively inexperienced people, looking to hire a freelancer with a magic bullet, and then bitch about how there's a lack of experienced people. Ie they don't believe in investing in human captital, and can't figure out why there aren't any competent people.
I'm sure someone said the same thing when pilots started bombing from aircraft flying 30,000 feet above, when artillerymen started fireing shells from 20 miles behind the lines, and when archers started shooting arrows instead of wading in and hacking with swords.
Actually, such brilliant things were said after the invention of the cross bow and the machine gun. And let us not forget the war to end all wars. Peace lasted, what two decades?
You've underestimated that. The U.S. government has bombed or invaded 24 countries since the 2nd world war. The U.S. government has killed or caused the deaths of more than 11,000,000 people since then. In some ways, the U.S. government is the most violent government that has ever existed.
If by in some ways you mean barring the Red Chinese, the Soviets, the Khmer Rouge, the Rwandans, Imperial Britain, or just for Godwin's sake the Nazi's then yes you are correct. Otherwise you're a troll.
But the US is hardly a place I would hold up as an example of a friendly, welcoming approach to immigration
Please provide a country that does meet your expectations of a friendly, welcoming approach to immigration. Also, NIMBY is cowardly.
My favorite kind of bicyclist are the ones who think stop signs don't apply to them. Yes, I'm talking to you Mr Lance Armstrong wannabe in your yellow jersey. The red octagon you shot past read stop and that meant you as well.
I really hate being lumped in with a group of smug assholes just because of my laptop choice.
I totally know how you feel. I drive a BMW not because I am an asshat, but b/c I wanted a car with a manual transmission that had some pep. Then everybody thought since I drive a BMW, I must be a prick. Fortunately, pricks now prefer to drive Audis, so in time some other computer will attract the fancy of smug assholes and no one will think any less of your Mac ownership.
Not quite that phrasing but google finds article about speed of tech advancement esp. with respect to metallic axes in Europe.
In the 21st century, it's not military might that will matter, but economic might. And China is well-positioned. Russia and China shares a common enemy -- the US -- so it make sense they would combine resources and efforts to stand against the US and possibly Europe.
Don't mistake kleptocrats seeking to hoard/hide their money in places where a new Russian regime can't forcibly seize as some sort of complicated ploy for world domination. Russia faces a very severe demographic brick wall, and China will do so in 20-50 years. That will truly be nightmarish.
There was a Senatorial election here in Illinois a few years back, and the Republican candidate had some sort of sex scandal (Jack Ryan, seven of Nine's now ex-husband if I remember correctly) and he dropped out of the race. The Democrats were running a black man (Obama maybe? My memory isn't too clear about who). Anyway, the Republicans wound up running a black guy from (again, IIRC) Maryland who had never stepped foot in Illinois in his life. A wag on the radio said "Those Republicans! First they couldn't find Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan, then they couldn't find WMDs in Iraq, now they can't even find a black man in Chicago!"
Yes, that sex scandal was the tawdry things Jeri accused Jack of in their divorce proceedings(take their veracity with a grain of salt as any divorce lawyer can tell you), and yes that was the Senate race Barack Obama went on to win against Alan Keyes. So I hope our president sends 7 of 9 a x-mas card every year.
Ah I get it: anything to the left of Rush Limbaugh is "Liberal Statist," so we can handily paint public health care, women's rights, or any form of government intervention at all with the same shade of "Kim Jong Il Red." Handy! Saves a lot of messy "thinking" and "rational debate." /. got taken over by kosbots such that libertarian == anarchist, but I try to stem the tide and follow up the libertarian utopia == somalia w/ an equally apt liberal statism == DPRK. However, I see what you did there w/ the any form of govt. intervention statement proves you are also a true believer in the libertarian == anarchist. It doesn't. Hope that helps.
Actually, what I did there was conflate liberal statism, the same way the parent post I was referring to had conflated anarchy with libertarianism. I'm not sure when
If libertarian ideas really worked, then we'd expect Somalia to be a nice place to live. But it isn't.
Conversely, if liberal statist ideas really worked the DPRK would be a great place to live, but it isn't. I know, I know don't feed the trolls.
Not sure why parent is a troll, but just to drive the point home.
I stopped reading you mentioned "ideologically colorblind" and wikipedia in the same sentence. I guess you missed the part where Krugman is a radical leftist who writes for the New York Times and supports all manner of silly leftist ideals.
Now quoted from the wiki page cited by the grand parent post as "ideologically colorblind". Krugman considers himself a liberal, calling one of his books and his New York Times blog: "The Conscience of a Liberal".[12]Now since parent post pointed this fact out why the troll mod?
Politics drives it. In the US, no politician dares look soft on crime. Advocating ridiculously long sentences is a quick and easy way to bolster an image. And failing to be tough is an even quicker way to end a political career. Huckabee is getting flak because one man he let out early has shot and killed 4 police officers. Type "Dukakis" into a search engine and one of the first things that shows up is Willie Horton.
You are half right. Looking tough on crime never hurts, on the other hand, most people would agree that unsupervised furloughs for people spending life in prison for murder may not be the best idea(thus William Horton).
But then, your argument seems to be "we can't know for sure what it would be without us, so we should rape it all we want."
Actually, my argument is let me know what the parameters of the problem are so I can seek a solution rather than being given the solution of don't change a thing and working backwards towards a problem.
But when they are asked to take personal responsibility about their impact on the environment, they refuse to take any responsibility. Why is that?
Because they smell a power grab in the name of saving the planet(spotted owl, polar bear, etc) and naturally reject such a grab. Hope that helps.
I got corn up the wazoo already.
Sounds painful, perhaps you should get that checked out[snarky]
I think the 'existence of taboos as evidence of wrongness' idea is wrong
Ugg, here's just a few(not that I have anything against homosexuals), eating raw pork and incest.