Regardless, the world is becoming an increasingly level playing field - finally.
Currency markets are failing in some cases, which is not allowing an actual level playing field. In the case of the yuan, the currency value is kept low by policy which is contributing to the dominance of China in the manufacturing sectors. In other cases, people invest their cash savings in denominations that feel stable to them and this ends up affecting the exchange rates. The economies that are moving forward the fastest are the ones that have exchange rates that promote export. The other salient point to keep in mind is that the American economy could function without importing anything from abroad with the exception of petroleum. If a populist political movement actually worked and started to close our economy to the world, then the standard of living would trend to where it was before globalization went into full swing. Poverty abroad is not and has never been imposed by the needs of our economy, with a couple of notable exceptions, all of which are specific to Latin America. So the idea that the new "open and fair trade" is going to fix India or any other nation is erroneous. Endemic poverty in many nations exists independently of decisions of the developed world, with occasional exceptions.
Too much stuff from the past gets neglected.
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Yes for the books that he isn't planning on reading, there are many urban centers that will take them. This guy's collection is large enough for him to consider a loaning system as a public service, if he's the philanthropic type.
However, the actual article (unlike the misleading summary) states that it can be explained by a botched job stitching together the components of the mosaic.
You are right; I failed to read everything before posting. I was just looking at the pretty pictures.
If you have a land line at home and access to the telephone at work, then you really can get by without a cell phone. But then, say, when you are out on the road and you need to change plans with friends, you find that you need one. It used to be that you could use a pay phone on such an occasion. I don't think having land lines at work and home and occasionally using a pay phone means that you are poor.
destroy my anonymity you have to prove libel occurred.
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You have to prove more than just libel... you have to prove that there was no malice in the intention, that you were not presenting an opinion (that you were presenting your statements as pure facts), and that the statements were false.
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the American populace is too busy watching who is going to be the next American Idol or seeing who is Dancing with the Stars to give two shits. Its pathetic.
I agree with your sentiment wholeheartedly. However, the problem isn't that people are obsessed with bad TV shows. The problem is that people don't know what to do about it. I am one of those people. If I wanted to do something about decreases in freedom of speech, I wouldn't even know where to start.
The authoritative study of civilian casualties was done by a group from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Here is a link to an article bolstering the validity of the study; it has links to a review of the original study.
The "iraq body count" guys are just counting dead listed in press releases.
How about we blame Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and the other "Hawks" for single-mindedly pushing a US foreign policy doctrine of preemption, which led to a war based on falsified "evidence" of a laughable "threat" to the US?
No, I blame Curveball for his dishonesty. lol j/k, I blame Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Cheney.
So detecting charged particles and figuring out how much energy they are ejected with is easy to do. But neutrons obviously lack Coulomb charge, so you couldn't use an applied field and see how much they bend, as you would with ejected electrons. Maybe I misunderstood and they aren't really detecting how much energy they are ejected with. Someone fill me in. How do you determine the trajectory and kinetic energy of chargeless particles?
How plentiful is Uranium for nuclear power? Will we find ourselves in the same dire straits tomorrow seeking vanishing uranium deposits? What is the situation?
It looks like we might be heading into a new cold war of sorts.
I hope no one mods me down for saying this, but I really feel like we should consider starting the draft again. We need to bolster our troop levels and try to do it in as egalitarian a way as possible.
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The other salient point to keep in mind is that the American economy could function without importing anything from abroad with the exception of petroleum. If a populist political movement actually worked and started to close our economy to the world, then the standard of living would trend to where it was before globalization went into full swing. Poverty abroad is not and has never been imposed by the needs of our economy, with a couple of notable exceptions, all of which are specific to Latin America. So the idea that the new "open and fair trade" is going to fix India or any other nation is erroneous. Endemic poverty in many nations exists independently of decisions of the developed world, with occasional exceptions.
Don't forget BZFlag .
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If someone knocks on the door, use the little peep hole.
I think that more and more people who are getting terminal degrees in science are doing so with the intention of working in the private sector.
Yes for the books that he isn't planning on reading, there are many urban centers that will take them. This guy's collection is large enough for him to consider a loaning system as a public service, if he's the philanthropic type.
Yes the insightful tag was more than I could have hoped for.
Couldn't the additional small crater seen in the Chinese photo be from an asteroid collision that occurred after the Clementine picture was taken?
Ooops, I meant
you have to prove that there was malice in the intention
I am still not a lawyer. Probably a good thing....
IANAL
You have to prove more than just libel...
you have to prove that there was no malice in the intention, that you were not presenting an opinion (that you were presenting your statements as pure facts), and that the statements were false.
IANAL
I agree with your sentiment wholeheartedly. However, the problem isn't that people are obsessed with bad TV shows. The problem is that people don't know what to do about it. I am one of those people. If I wanted to do something about decreases in freedom of speech, I wouldn't even know where to start.
The authoritative study of civilian casualties was done by a group from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Here is a link to an article bolstering the validity of the study; it has links to a review of the original study.
The "iraq body count" guys are just counting dead listed in press releases.
You have to remember that there are anywhere from 0.5 to 1.3 million dead Iraqi civilians.
From this alone, the only rational conclusion of any humane person is that the aftermath of the invasion has been an unmitigated tragedy and disaster.
lol j/k, I blame Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Cheney.
So detecting charged particles and figuring out how much energy they are ejected with is easy to do. But neutrons obviously lack Coulomb charge, so you couldn't use an applied field and see how much they bend, as you would with ejected electrons. Maybe I misunderstood and they aren't really detecting how much energy they are ejected with. Someone fill me in. How do you determine the trajectory and kinetic energy of chargeless particles?
I hope no one mods me down for saying this, but I really feel like we should consider starting the draft again. We need to bolster our troop levels and try to do it in as egalitarian a way as possible.
To me it sounds more like "giggety giggety."