Russia did not invade Vietnam. The United States invaded Vietnam because it is an historically paranoid state, and feared that communism would takeover east Asia were the grass roots movements of communists not exterminated You know who else invaded Vietnam? China. How many dictatorships have we sponsored with our money and military technology?And if you don't think that America is an imperial empire... well. We have 700 military bases in almost every country of the world, and outspend the rest of the world in military expenditures. What else could I say. I don't know if you heard, but after Nov. 4th all Americans were absolved of their white liberal guilt, so stop thinking such late 20th century thoughts and enjoy the new age of Aquarius.
It's really quite clever and, since they are not inducing him to do something illegal in anyway at all, quite moral. Lying for the purposes of arresting someone doesn't seem that moral. It seems more like fraud.
yes, submarine are cool, useful, stealth and so on. But future is unforeseeable and the only thing history teaches us is that the generic dug in tactic doesn't work. most of submarine task could now be performed by long range missiles. You do realize how close England was in being starved out due to the U-boats right? And submarines aren't dug in the wall, nor are sonar nets. And you mention radar not stopping bombing raids, then grant that interceptors helped stop the German bombing raids, well part of that was due to radar providing warning of where the bombers were. As for the "dug in a wall", not every siege in history was successful(see Vienna).
the notion that submarine warfare is still so relevant that lesser training in sonar intelligence could cost millions of Americans life, reminds me of that Maginot strategy.
So what new tech will replace the submarine in a future conflict? Or do you believe all wars will be asymmetric battles fought between land locked countries?
Call me a troll if you want, Ok you're a troll, but no more so than the damn Brits who did such a poor job of drawing the maps. And look what's happening in Kashmir - they drove out all Hindus and now they say their hearts are with Pakistan! Fun fact Kashmir was majority muslim when the Brits left(see previous rant about poor British cartography). HTH
(HINT: Sulfuric Acid and Potassium Hydroxide neutralize each other and the resultant material is plain old H2O. Throw in some Hydrochloric acid and you have acidic water.) Hint: when those two mix it produces a lot of heat so I would hope that the good people of Home Depot really don't store them next to each other.
You want liberal bias? Get in touch with reality and you will see reality has the biggest liberal bias of all and conservatives and libertarians are way out of touch with reality. Hmm, let's test that shall we? Momentum? conserverd Angular Momentum? conserved Energy? According to the 1st law of thermodynamics conserved. Sorry, but physics at least has a conservative bias.
You're electing a human being, not Jesus Christ. Did you see some of the coverage during the campaign, hell I expected someone on MSNBC to declare the Age of Aquarius after Obama won the Electoral College
Meanwhile the "socialist" countries of Europe are doing just fine, thank you very much, except for having to deal with the inevitable global consequences of failures in the US financial markets. Tell that to Iceland, also what part of the US financial crisis led to the Russian invasion of Georgia or the riots in Paris? What oh that's right they really didn't have anything to do with that. And while you're being so high and mighty how's that whole Darfur crisis coming along?
As far as I know, you can't nominate yourself. Well the previous governor Murkowski who followed Gravel(yeah that Gravel) into the Senate, ran for Gov. of Alaska, won and appointed his daughter to full out the remainder of his term, which pissed so many people off they may have stripped that power from the governor otherwise, I see no reason Ms. Palin couldn't make herself or her husband the next Senator from AK.
You aint the most powerful country any more. China is already more powerful than America and so is the EU. Really? You'd better rethink that little statement since China hasn't done jack squat but host the olympics and the EU isn't a country last time I checked. Btw my smug little friend winter is coming and Putin has your natural gas supplies, so I wouldn't get too proud quite yet.
Rev. Martin Luther King's "I have a dream". Me too, especially when everybody started talking about the color of the president elect's skin. As such I am hereby starting a new internet meme, "DKDI" pronounced decay-dee-eye which stands for Dr. King's dream indeed. Use this phrase anytime someone mentions the color of Obama's skin, if the person you say this to is intelligent, they might stop to think about how far we still have to go, if they're stupid they'll merely assume you agree with their particular wonder at the most recent election.
Libertarianism is the philosophy of the schoolchild who's suddenly discovered Ayn Rand, No that would be objectivism, not all libertarians are sociopaths who believe that altruism is a sin. But thanks for playing. knows little to nothing about human nature or how the world really works, Tell me tovarish, how is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics doing? People who realise that we can accomplish much more by working together rather than everyone competing to destroy each other Nothing in libertarianism == anarchy but keep trying.
I guess I always wonder - what truly is the point of being a bigot or racist? Oh well....more observations that really any information here. I have a better question when did racism leap above pedophilia on the scale of bad things to do/be called. And how long until we have a corollary to Godwin's Law replacing Nazi w/ racist. Perhaps then when real racism occurs(Jim Crow, Apartheid S. Africa, Ethnic Cleansing, etc.) people will take it seriously rather than the use of "folks" to describe people being construed as racism.
Well if we had Arabs wandering around OUR country, bossing-us around, I'm sure some of our citizens would try to strike-back as well. Ya know, like we did in 1775-1783 with the Brits. Well if AIM had flown the planes into the WTC then that moral equivalence argument would work, but they didn't so it doesn't.
I cannot blame certain Saudis being annoyed with our presence in their country. I agree that we should butt-out of their affairs. Then the Saudis should lobby their government to ask the americans to leave rather than building a new air base for them. Oh, that's right the Saudis would first have to change their govt to be able to petition said govt., yes flying planes into buildings is soo much easier, and far less time consuming.
Leaving is easy. The US/UK military didn't give a sh*t about Iraqi citizens in their rush to into the country (and all the time they've been there), so why the big worry now? Probably learned the lessons of post-Soviet Afghanistan(you know the other country we are currently carrying out military operations in), and what a bad idea it is to leave a government-less state behind. It's not like the US/UK foreign policies will be viewed as any more criminal, inhuman and cowardly than they already are. See Cambodia after the US withdrew from South East Asis following the Vietnam war.
You're right we need more addle-brained justices who apparently never read the damn Federalist Papers and want to believe "The Court would have us believe that over 200 years ago, the Framers made a choice to limit the tools available to elected officials wishing to regulate civilian uses of weapons.... I could not possibly conclude that the Framers made such a choice." So remind me again who are the rational, well read justices on the Supreme Court of the US?
I am with Buckley on this: "I didn't leave the party, it left me." No Buckley left that party, for a lefty(his words, not mine) whom he wants to believe (since Barack is such a great writer and went to Harvard) won't do all things that a Democratic Congress will force him to do. Buckley's endorsement of Obama was more a slap in the face of McCain for picking Palin. Damning with faint praise comes to mind. Mr. Buckley shares that unfortunate and false nostalgia that US elections are determined by well informed voters making calm, rational decisions, rather than the ugly truth of a slobbering horde selecting which ever candidate will feed their current appetite.
They'd have a very difficult time getting past beefed-up security. [Dr. Evil voice]Riight[/Dr, Evil voice], b/c border security is sooo good that enemies trained in the deserts of Afghanistan could not possible cross the deserts of the southwestern United States, then there is the border to the North, and the tons of shipping containers entering our ports, no way anything nasty could slip through "beefed-up security". Now, I will grant you that indiscriminant targeting of civilians is not the best way to win hearts and minds, nor offering a bounty for "terrorists" in a coutry where vendetta and delayed revenge are national pastimes is not wise, but if the US started to use our considerable stock piles of NCB weapons against civilian populations to retalite, then you could say "We have become the terrorists killing innocents."
Just kidding. It's obviously (c) people hate Bush and they want revenge even if it means making the same damn mistake (letting one party have a majority in Congress *and* the presidency). You may be making that comment in jest but on NPR this morning that appeared to be the consensus reason for voting for Barack whereever they happened to be surveying people. As for the "the tireless work of secret trotskyite sleeper cells?" how else would you describe the Employee Fair Choice Act? Imagine if we could fix our current voter/polling station problems just by signing a card stating who should be president. Why then we wouldn't need those Diebold machines at all, and the Age of Aquarius could be ushered in.
Mourn the loss and move on; don't go on a killing spree. This plan would have emboldened our enemies further, see 1983 pull out of Lebanon being citied as evidence of the US being a paper tiger. Hell, the lack of response to the USS Cole bombing also helped further that belief. No, the correct answer isn't just hunker down in the bunker, it's locate those who want to do us harm, attempt to reconcile their desire, and finally, when that fails remove their ability to do us harm, possibly forever.
Governance and cooperation are strange things, in that we must submit to them in a civilized existence. I've seen the fear-based rightist rubrics bubble up time and again. They're ill-examined, and debase civil people each time they're raised. You mean like the european constitution that was so Byzantine no two people could agree one what certain provisions meant? Or did you have some other example where skepticism of govt. debased civil people?
Secondly, the US presidential elections are actually very important. I see Slashdotters posting comments to the effect that both parties are equally bad and it doesn't matter which way you vote and excuses, excuses, excuses. I can tell you from the point of view of someone who is very much affected by the results of your national elections, this is a pretty depressing thing to hear. It's clear to anyone who has half a clue that there are very wide and deep differences between the two main candidates, Oh, so you're the one who mistakenly received the shipment of Kool-aid meant for battle ground states. As has been pointed out repeatedly for 90% of the issues, both parties are the same. When the choices made by religious southern fundamentalists end up slowly eroding my way of life because people who should have known better were too apathetic to vote, I get a little irritated. Sounds like you need to get a better way of life, or become politically active in your own country. As Voltaire recommends, "we should tend our own garden". Thirdly, citizens of the United States of America are Americans, they vote in the American presidential election not the USian presidential election.
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Russia did not invade Vietnam. The United States invaded Vietnam because it is an historically paranoid state, and feared that communism would takeover east Asia were the grass roots movements of communists not exterminated
You know who else invaded Vietnam? China.
How many dictatorships have we sponsored with our money and military technology?And if you don't think that America is an imperial empire... well. We have 700 military bases in almost every country of the world, and outspend the rest of the world in military expenditures. What else could I say.
I don't know if you heard, but after Nov. 4th all Americans were absolved of their white liberal guilt, so stop thinking such late 20th century thoughts and enjoy the new age of Aquarius.
It's really quite clever and, since they are not inducing him to do something illegal in anyway at all, quite moral.
Lying for the purposes of arresting someone doesn't seem that moral. It seems more like fraud.
yes, submarine are cool, useful, stealth and so on. But future is unforeseeable and the only thing history teaches us is that the generic dug in tactic doesn't work. most of submarine task could now be performed by long range missiles.
You do realize how close England was in being starved out due to the U-boats right? And submarines aren't dug in the wall, nor are sonar nets. And you mention radar not stopping bombing raids, then grant that interceptors helped stop the German bombing raids, well part of that was due to radar providing warning of where the bombers were. As for the "dug in a wall", not every siege in history was successful(see Vienna).
the notion that submarine warfare is still so relevant that lesser training in sonar intelligence could cost millions of Americans life, reminds me of that Maginot strategy.
So what new tech will replace the submarine in a future conflict? Or do you believe all wars will be asymmetric battles fought between land locked countries?
Call me a troll if you want,
Ok you're a troll, but no more so than the damn Brits who did such a poor job of drawing the maps.
And look what's happening in Kashmir - they drove out all Hindus and now they say their hearts are with Pakistan!
Fun fact Kashmir was majority muslim when the Brits left(see previous rant about poor British cartography). HTH
(HINT: Sulfuric Acid and Potassium Hydroxide neutralize each other and the resultant material is plain old H2O. Throw in some Hydrochloric acid and you have acidic water.)
Hint: when those two mix it produces a lot of heat so I would hope that the good people of Home Depot really don't store them next to each other.
You want liberal bias? Get in touch with reality and you will see reality has the biggest liberal bias of all and conservatives and libertarians are way out of touch with reality.
Hmm, let's test that shall we? Momentum? conserverd Angular Momentum? conserved Energy? According to the 1st law of thermodynamics conserved. Sorry, but physics at least has a conservative bias.
You're electing a human being, not Jesus Christ.
Did you see some of the coverage during the campaign, hell I expected someone on MSNBC to declare the Age of Aquarius after Obama won the Electoral College
Meanwhile the "socialist" countries of Europe are doing just fine, thank you very much, except for having to deal with the inevitable global consequences of failures in the US financial markets.
Tell that to Iceland, also what part of the US financial crisis led to the Russian invasion of Georgia or the riots in Paris? What oh that's right they really didn't have anything to do with that. And while you're being so high and mighty how's that whole Darfur crisis coming along?
As far as I know, you can't nominate yourself.
Well the previous governor Murkowski who followed Gravel(yeah that Gravel) into the Senate, ran for Gov. of Alaska, won and appointed his daughter to full out the remainder of his term, which pissed so many people off they may have stripped that power from the governor otherwise, I see no reason Ms. Palin couldn't make herself or her husband the next Senator from AK.
You aint the most powerful country any more. China is already more powerful than America and so is the EU.
Really? You'd better rethink that little statement since China hasn't done jack squat but host the olympics and the EU isn't a country last time I checked. Btw my smug little friend winter is coming and Putin has your natural gas supplies, so I wouldn't get too proud quite yet.
Actually, if you look here they do.
Rev. Martin Luther King's "I have a dream".
Me too, especially when everybody started talking about the color of the president elect's skin. As such I am hereby starting a new internet meme, "DKDI" pronounced decay-dee-eye which stands for Dr. King's dream indeed. Use this phrase anytime someone mentions the color of Obama's skin, if the person you say this to is intelligent, they might stop to think about how far we still have to go, if they're stupid they'll merely assume you agree with their particular wonder at the most recent election.
Libertarianism is the philosophy of the schoolchild who's suddenly discovered Ayn Rand,
No that would be objectivism, not all libertarians are sociopaths who believe that altruism is a sin. But thanks for playing.
knows little to nothing about human nature or how the world really works,
Tell me tovarish, how is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics doing?
People who realise that we can accomplish much more by working together rather than everyone competing to destroy each other
Nothing in libertarianism == anarchy but keep trying.
I guess I always wonder - what truly is the point of being a bigot or racist? Oh well....more observations that really any information here.
I have a better question when did racism leap above pedophilia on the scale of bad things to do/be called. And how long until we have a corollary to Godwin's Law replacing Nazi w/ racist. Perhaps then when real racism occurs(Jim Crow, Apartheid S. Africa, Ethnic Cleansing, etc.) people will take it seriously rather than the use of "folks" to describe people being construed as racism.
Well if we had Arabs wandering around OUR country, bossing-us around, I'm sure some of our citizens would try to strike-back as well. Ya know, like we did in 1775-1783 with the Brits.
Well if AIM had flown the planes into the WTC then that moral equivalence argument would work, but they didn't so it doesn't.
I cannot blame certain Saudis being annoyed with our presence in their country. I agree that we should butt-out of their affairs.
Then the Saudis should lobby their government to ask the americans to leave rather than building a new air base for them. Oh, that's right the Saudis would first have to change their govt to be able to petition said govt., yes flying planes into buildings is soo much easier, and far less time consuming.
Leaving is easy. The US/UK military didn't give a sh*t about Iraqi citizens in their rush to into the country (and all the time they've been there), so why the big worry now?
Probably learned the lessons of post-Soviet Afghanistan(you know the other country we are currently carrying out military operations in), and what a bad idea it is to leave a government-less state behind.
It's not like the US/UK foreign policies will be viewed as any more criminal, inhuman and cowardly than they already are.
See Cambodia after the US withdrew from South East Asis following the Vietnam war.
You're right we need more addle-brained justices who apparently never read the damn Federalist Papers and want to believe "The Court would have us believe that over 200 years ago, the Framers made a choice to limit the tools available to elected officials wishing to regulate civilian uses of weapons.... I could not possibly conclude that the Framers made such a choice." So remind me again who are the rational, well read justices on the Supreme Court of the US?
I am with Buckley on this: "I didn't leave the party, it left me."
No Buckley left that party, for a lefty(his words, not mine) whom he wants to believe (since Barack is such a great writer and went to Harvard) won't do all things that a Democratic Congress will force him to do. Buckley's endorsement of Obama was more a slap in the face of McCain for picking Palin. Damning with faint praise comes to mind. Mr. Buckley shares that unfortunate and false nostalgia that US elections are determined by well informed voters making calm, rational decisions, rather than the ugly truth of a slobbering horde selecting which ever candidate will feed their current appetite.
They'd have a very difficult time getting past beefed-up security.
[Dr. Evil voice]Riight[/Dr, Evil voice], b/c border security is sooo good that enemies trained in the deserts of Afghanistan could not possible cross the deserts of the southwestern United States, then there is the border to the North, and the tons of shipping containers entering our ports, no way anything nasty could slip through "beefed-up security". Now, I will grant you that indiscriminant targeting of civilians is not the best way to win hearts and minds, nor offering a bounty for "terrorists" in a coutry where vendetta and delayed revenge are national pastimes is not wise, but if the US started to use our considerable stock piles of NCB weapons against civilian populations to retalite, then you could say "We have become the terrorists killing innocents."
Just kidding. It's obviously (c) people hate Bush and they want revenge even if it means making the same damn mistake (letting one party have a majority in Congress *and* the presidency).
You may be making that comment in jest but on NPR this morning that appeared to be the consensus reason for voting for Barack whereever they happened to be surveying people. As for the "the tireless work of secret trotskyite sleeper cells?" how else would you describe the Employee Fair Choice Act? Imagine if we could fix our current voter/polling station problems just by signing a card stating who should be president. Why then we wouldn't need those Diebold machines at all, and the Age of Aquarius could be ushered in.
Mourn the loss and move on; don't go on a killing spree.
This plan would have emboldened our enemies further, see 1983 pull out of Lebanon being citied as evidence of the US being a paper tiger. Hell, the lack of response to the USS Cole bombing also helped further that belief. No, the correct answer isn't just hunker down in the bunker, it's locate those who want to do us harm, attempt to reconcile their desire, and finally, when that fails remove their ability to do us harm, possibly forever.
Governance and cooperation are strange things, in that we must submit to them in a civilized existence. I've seen the fear-based rightist rubrics bubble up time and again. They're ill-examined, and debase civil people each time they're raised.
You mean like the european constitution that was so Byzantine no two people could agree one what certain provisions meant? Or did you have some other example where skepticism of govt. debased civil people?
Can you explain your definition of 'smartphone' that the iPhone and Android phones don't qualify for?
Just a guess, cut and paste?
Secondly, the US presidential elections are actually very important. I see Slashdotters posting comments to the effect that both parties are equally bad and it doesn't matter which way you vote and excuses, excuses, excuses. I can tell you from the point of view of someone who is very much affected by the results of your national elections, this is a pretty depressing thing to hear. It's clear to anyone who has half a clue that there are very wide and deep differences between the two main candidates,
Oh, so you're the one who mistakenly received the shipment of Kool-aid meant for battle ground states. As has been pointed out repeatedly for 90% of the issues, both parties are the same.
When the choices made by religious southern fundamentalists end up slowly eroding my way of life because people who should have known better were too apathetic to vote, I get a little irritated.
Sounds like you need to get a better way of life, or become politically active in your own country. As Voltaire recommends, "we should tend our own garden". Thirdly, citizens of the United States of America are Americans, they vote in the American presidential election not the USian presidential election.