Are you stupid? I might ask you the same question, but I can't since your one of the many AC's who post on/. Who said anything about invading or holding China? I merely mentioned the fact that the day after the Chinese, Saudi, and Japanese dump their bonds, the US will still have 9 carriers capable of exerting political will onto the world. Why would anyone want to hold China, maybe the industrial parts, but those are soon going to look like parts of NJ nobody wants.
Some of the smartest people to ever have lived suffer from physical and mental defects, and it's currently impossible to know if their intelligence was in spite of, or perhaps because of that very handicap. If anything, I think modern history has proven that genetic diversity is a GOOD thing. Written like someone whose never seen the horrors of sickle cell, hemophelia, or any number of damn near fatal diseases that can be avoided through genetic screening. So assuming you're male and you think being born with a handicap is a great character builder, will you replace your mate's folic acid supplements with a placebo?
2: Japanese, Saudi, or Chinese businesses dump their bonds. Riiiight, b/c those 9 Nimitz Class carriers magically stop working once the chinese sell their bonds. As for nationalization at the flick of a pen, that cuts both ways.
There's nothing insulting or abusive in calling your religion false, most form of orgnised religion claim that every other religion is wrong. [CaveMan mode]Huh?[/CaveMan mode]. I'm pretty sure if you told any follower of a religion that their religion is false they would be insulted. Now, a better question would be why is this act legislating non-threatening but insulting speech?
Do you work for the Japanese ministry for propaganda or something? Follow up question, are you perhaps in charge of Gundam? At the grand parent poster, do you believe that the Japanese are timelords and decided to invade Manchuria in 1931 b/c they knew the US would stop selling them steel and rubber by 1940?
They're described as some manipulative power we shouldn't let ourselves be dependent on. Actually, that's just good economic sense to avoid mortgaging ones future, doesn't matter whether it's the Chinese, the Japanese or the Europeans who are holding large sums of US National Debt. Just b/c the US is in Iraq, doesn't make the victims of the Janjuweed any less dead. Likewise, the US not signing Kyoto doesn't make the air over Beijing any less clear. If you want China to be accepted on the world stage, then stop acting like a victim and expecting everyhody to apologize for 19th and early 20th century colonialism, also stop thinking of all non-Chinese as barbarians.
Well, yes and no. Stalin, for example, built Russia back up from the brink of disaster (Soviet losses were staggeringly large during WWII) And now kids, let's ask why Soviet losses were quite so high during "The Great Patriotic War". The answer? Koba's little purges leading up to and during the war.
You do realize that in the USA the President is a powerless git that's unable to legislate? He can only approve stuff from Congress or veto it, and even if he vetoes it, Congress still gets a chance to pass it anyway. Right, somebody needs to study about executive orders. Also there's signing statements. So the President is far from powerless.
It only takes 111 gallons to equal a ton
at 0.68 gm/cm^3 and 1 ton ~ 907 kg. So 1 ton of gasoline = 616760 cm^3 and at ~0.000264 gallon/cc you need 162 gallons of gasoline to equal a ton.
I have to say american prison's are butterflies and bubblegum compared to russian ones... Did you get one of those cool russian prison tattoos made from melting tires for the pigment?
Where as, in places like China, the will of the people is no represented by the Government. Are you sure? If so who's fault is it that the Chinese Govt. doesn't represent the will of the people?
Holy revisionist history Batman! You do realize papa Nobel made oodles of money manufacturing sea mines for the Russians during the Crimean War. So I don't think he was quite as "oblivious to human nature" as you claim he was.
Is interesting the new mod for factually incorrect? I know the American automotive industry is a bit behind the curve with technology, but most manufacturers are getting rid of their wheezy underpowered petrols. In a few years you won't see new petrol cars at all. Fact, per liter of displacement petrol engines produce more hp. Second fact diesel fuel prices are highly variable due to the seasonal demand for home heating oil. So I don't think the US car shopper is going to switch to diesel in a few years, unless CA gets their way.
There are certainly nanny-state laws in existence but this clearly isn't one of them. If you want to convince every day people that government interference is bad, then this is clearly the wrong issue to go against. Well said Mr. boiled frog.
Are you starting to see where you went wrong yet? Yes, wasn't pedantic enough, since getting uppity maybe called interfering with a flight crew, but means entirely different things to most rational people. Do you see where you went wrong yet? Since you orginal supposition is there was nothing to be concerned about since this would not be used or abused, since these were federal crimes. However, my counter point were two simple non ZOMG think of the children scenarios where one could wind up in a federal database all for having a short temper while stuck on tarmac. HAND.
What is obvious to some but not all readers is that if you are being arrested by federal agents it is for a "federal crime". Dude, you have no idea what things are now considered "federal crimes". Identity theft if you commit fraud across state lines can be a Federal Crime. Get uppity with the flight attendant after being stuck on the tarmac for a few hours, yep you guessed it Federal Crime.
What's wrong with this? I'd say those of us in the industry are terribly fortunate that there are still "a lot of places" that require a decade of experience or an advanced degree. What's wrong is that these places won't hire anyone w/out experience, then complain when there is upward pressure on wages due to a lack of experienced work force. Typically, the hiring managers want it both ways, experienced labor at still wet behind the ears wages.
I don't think that's true. Lots of people just want to screw around with things and get an ego boost out of flouting authority or trying to show-up the IT staff. You know, there's always going to be that guy who wants to install games on his PC, and figure out how to tunnel past the porn filter. Maybe it's because he wants those things, but also it's because he gets a kick out subverting the rules. Either way, it doesn't mean the IT staff isn't doing their jobs. Perhaps, and sometimes like many things in life, the one size fits all, thou shalt do it only one way philosophy means that people are less productive, I've worked in shops were the monitor res. was set to 800x600 and god help you if you bumped it to 1024x768 or used smaller fonts to get more than 18 lines of text on a screen. So corp. IT is like everything else there are the anti-social dicks, and there are the people who bend the rules to get shit done.
Why all these little pissant states in the North East think that they can just do this and get away with it confounds us Westerners in the NAFTA zone.
Some guy from Alaska called to say his state/penis is bigger than yours. Imagine every little municipality in each of these California zone going up to Ahh-nold and telling him that they are going to double the sales tax on everything that comes into their village and they aren't going to give any of to him. I believe the people of Berkeley tried that with coffee not too long ago.
Does that mean If I throw a heap of the CDs into hte street and a cop comes along and asks who is littering, I can tell them the CDs belong to AOL and he will send them a fine? Replace CD's with hazardous waste and AOL w/ producer of said waste, and yes they(the producer) would be on the hook for the waste.
Well, without resorting to name calling, you seem to believe that Antigua could cause a real threat to US economic interests, that's something that could easily fixed with a display of US military might, perhaps a visit by one of the US's nine Nimitz class carrier groups. The reason the Bush administration is so widely despised is they pissed in the face of the European Greens by not signing Kyoto, and pissed in the face of the European bureaucrats by not filling out the appropriate forms in triplicate prior to starting the war in Iraq. However, please continue to label all those who disagree with you as a moron, and dismiss their opinions, all the while missing the irony in your doing so.
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Are you stupid? /. Who said anything about invading or holding China? I merely mentioned the fact that the day after the Chinese, Saudi, and Japanese dump their bonds, the US will still have 9 carriers capable of exerting political will onto the world. Why would anyone want to hold China, maybe the industrial parts, but those are soon going to look like parts of NJ nobody wants.
I might ask you the same question, but I can't since your one of the many AC's who post on
Some of the smartest people to ever have lived suffer from physical and mental defects, and it's currently impossible to know if their intelligence was in spite of, or perhaps because of that very handicap. If anything, I think modern history has proven that genetic diversity is a GOOD thing.
Written like someone whose never seen the horrors of sickle cell, hemophelia, or any number of damn near fatal diseases that can be avoided through genetic screening. So assuming you're male and you think being born with a handicap is a great character builder, will you replace your mate's folic acid supplements with a placebo?
2: Japanese, Saudi, or Chinese businesses dump their bonds.
Riiiight, b/c those 9 Nimitz Class carriers magically stop working once the chinese sell their bonds. As for nationalization at the flick of a pen, that cuts both ways.
There's nothing insulting or abusive in calling your religion false, most form of orgnised religion claim that every other religion is wrong.
[CaveMan mode]Huh?[/CaveMan mode]. I'm pretty sure if you told any follower of a religion that their religion is false they would be insulted. Now, a better question would be why is this act legislating non-threatening but insulting speech?
Do you work for the Japanese ministry for propaganda or something?
Follow up question, are you perhaps in charge of Gundam? At the grand parent poster, do you believe that the Japanese are timelords and decided to invade Manchuria in 1931 b/c they knew the US would stop selling them steel and rubber by 1940?
therefore we should have a Republic run by educated men
i.e. people who know the difference between are and our? Oh the delicious irony!
They're described as some manipulative power we shouldn't let ourselves be dependent on.
Actually, that's just good economic sense to avoid mortgaging ones future, doesn't matter whether it's the Chinese, the Japanese or the Europeans who are holding large sums of US National Debt. Just b/c the US is in Iraq, doesn't make the victims of the Janjuweed any less dead. Likewise, the US not signing Kyoto doesn't make the air over Beijing any less clear. If you want China to be accepted on the world stage, then stop acting like a victim and expecting everyhody to apologize for 19th and early 20th century colonialism, also stop thinking of all non-Chinese as barbarians.
Well, yes and no. Stalin, for example, built Russia back up from the brink of disaster (Soviet losses were staggeringly large during WWII)
And now kids, let's ask why Soviet losses were quite so high during "The Great Patriotic War". The answer? Koba's little purges leading up to and during the war.
You do realize that in the USA the President is a powerless git that's unable to legislate? He can only approve stuff from Congress or veto it, and even if he vetoes it, Congress still gets a chance to pass it anyway.
Right, somebody needs to study about executive orders. Also there's signing statements. So the President is far from powerless.
It only takes 111 gallons to equal a ton
at 0.68 gm/cm^3 and 1 ton ~ 907 kg. So 1 ton of gasoline = 616760 cm^3 and at ~0.000264 gallon/cc you need 162 gallons of gasoline to equal a ton.
I have to say american prison's are butterflies and bubblegum compared to russian ones...
Did you get one of those cool russian prison tattoos made from melting tires for the pigment?
Where as, in places like China, the will of the people is no represented by the Government.
Are you sure? If so who's fault is it that the Chinese Govt. doesn't represent the will of the people?
Holy revisionist history Batman! You do realize papa Nobel made oodles of money manufacturing sea mines for the Russians during the Crimean War. So I don't think he was quite as "oblivious to human nature" as you claim he was.
Is interesting the new mod for factually incorrect? I know the American automotive industry is a bit behind the curve with technology, but most manufacturers are getting rid of their wheezy underpowered petrols. In a few years you won't see new petrol cars at all.
Fact, per liter of displacement petrol engines produce more hp. Second fact diesel fuel prices are highly variable due to the seasonal demand for home heating oil. So I don't think the US car shopper is going to switch to diesel in a few years, unless CA gets their way.
Now, now, technically that's nationalism or jingoism, since I don't believe Mexican is defined as a race.
/. becoming self-aware?
Irony of Ironies captcha == racial. Is
There are certainly nanny-state laws in existence but this clearly isn't one of them. If you want to convince every day people that government interference is bad, then this is clearly the wrong issue to go against.
Well said Mr. boiled frog.
Are you starting to see where you went wrong yet?
Yes, wasn't pedantic enough, since getting uppity maybe called interfering with a flight crew, but means entirely different things to most rational people. Do you see where you went wrong yet? Since you orginal supposition is there was nothing to be concerned about since this would not be used or abused, since these were federal crimes. However, my counter point were two simple non ZOMG think of the children scenarios where one could wind up in a federal database all for having a short temper while stuck on tarmac. HAND.
What is obvious to some but not all readers is that if you are being arrested by federal agents it is for a "federal crime".
Dude, you have no idea what things are now considered "federal crimes". Identity theft if you commit fraud across state lines can be a Federal Crime. Get uppity with the flight attendant after being stuck on the tarmac for a few hours, yep you guessed it Federal Crime.
What's wrong with this? I'd say those of us in the industry are terribly fortunate that there are still "a lot of places" that require a decade of experience or an advanced degree.
What's wrong is that these places won't hire anyone w/out experience, then complain when there is upward pressure on wages due to a lack of experienced work force. Typically, the hiring managers want it both ways, experienced labor at still wet behind the ears wages.
I don't think that's true. Lots of people just want to screw around with things and get an ego boost out of flouting authority or trying to show-up the IT staff. You know, there's always going to be that guy who wants to install games on his PC, and figure out how to tunnel past the porn filter. Maybe it's because he wants those things, but also it's because he gets a kick out subverting the rules. Either way, it doesn't mean the IT staff isn't doing their jobs.
Perhaps, and sometimes like many things in life, the one size fits all, thou shalt do it only one way philosophy means that people are less productive, I've worked in shops were the monitor res. was set to 800x600 and god help you if you bumped it to 1024x768 or used smaller fonts to get more than 18 lines of text on a screen. So corp. IT is like everything else there are the anti-social dicks, and there are the people who bend the rules to get shit done.
With good leadership, all the other problems can be mitigated or removed.
Or better yet, avoided altogether.
Why all these little pissant states in the North East think that they can just do this and get away with it confounds us Westerners in the NAFTA zone.
Some guy from Alaska called to say his state/penis is bigger than yours.
Imagine every little municipality in each of these California zone going up to Ahh-nold and telling him that they are going to double the sales tax on everything that comes into their village and they aren't going to give any of to him.
I believe the people of Berkeley tried that with coffee not too long ago.
Does that mean If I throw a heap of the CDs into hte street and a cop comes along and asks who is littering, I can tell them the CDs belong to AOL and he will send them a fine?
Replace CD's with hazardous waste and AOL w/ producer of said waste, and yes they(the producer) would be on the hook for the waste.
Well, without resorting to name calling, you seem to believe that Antigua could cause a real threat to US economic interests, that's something that could easily fixed with a display of US military might, perhaps a visit by one of the US's nine Nimitz class carrier groups. The reason the Bush administration is so widely despised is they pissed in the face of the European Greens by not signing Kyoto, and pissed in the face of the European bureaucrats by not filling out the appropriate forms in triplicate prior to starting the war in Iraq. However, please continue to label all those who disagree with you as a moron, and dismiss their opinions, all the while missing the irony in your doing so.
IANAL I thought domestic military actions would run afoul of posse comitatus.