Yep, life in the Americas was a Bunny Life. The next tribe over the hill enslaved your women and killed your warriors in a spirit of love an harmony. The Aztecs were a hippie culture which cherished medicinal "herbs" and sang Kum-by-Ya by the firelight in the evenings before going off to make free love.
I don't think that is the Chinese model. They, rather, intend to build up to such an extent and any effort to "defend" what's left of Taiwan will be too costly for the U.S. to consider. In the meantime, they aim to make the U.S. Pacific Fleet much more expensive to defend and keep deployed. Those pinpricks around the S. China Sea are meant to see how much work they have to do to keep the U.S. Fleet occupied.
And taking out Beijing would only cause them to take out Los Angeles.
Nope. If we armored ships like the battleships of WWII, they'd be fat, slow, and cost too much to keep supplied with power. Modern Navies have moved way beyond that. Now the ticket is to kill the enemy first because no matter how you armor it, the enemy will always have a missile that can kill your ship.
"I oppose government defining anything for the private sector."
Really? How about new drugs? Would it be okay if Joe's Bait and Pharmacy put out a cure for cancer that might or might not kill you? FDA regulations prevent this. How about safety of cars and trucks? That's regulated but maybe we should let enough people in car make X get themselves killed dead so that people will no longer buy car make X. Airline safety is a big thing, but maybe you'd rather let the rules and regs on plane upkeep go away because the airlines have your life as their primary care. How about physicians? Why, anyone should be able to hang out a shingle and claim to be an MD. You'd go to them, right?
Yeah, you are right. The Office of Total Information Control is in charge of doling out information to control the people, a conspiracy like no other. Is it a coincidence no information showing U.S. Government involvement in WTC planning or execution has been leaked? I think not.
Hmmm....I think most Americans not living under a rock know about Syria. Now, for the big question: What would you have us do about Syria? Think carefully now, no re-expression of existing proposed solutions, we all know those as well. The government is waiting breathlessly for your answer.
From what I heard on the news (presumably this is correct), the nurse on station had determined the person had ebola like symptoms and noted it on his chart? well, s/he noted it on something. That fact was ignored and he was discharged.
Also, the person bears some responsibility. He goes to Liberia, works with a known Ebola patient (another thing I read and presumably true), comes back and fails to tell his doctors this. He claims they didn't ask, which does not relieve him of the responsibility to tell them. Then he has the temerity to go home and come in contact with other family members and friends.
Really? So, say the slaughter on an industrial scale of the Nazies, or Stalin, or Mao is somehow similar to the single murder? Even Stalin was bright enough to observe that quantity has a quality all its own.
Hey Chinese leaders, want to make your manhood look bigger? Give Tibet its freedom back. Renounce your insane claims to all of the S. China Sea, and stop threatening Taiwan. Until that happens, no amount of space funnies is going to make men out of you.
No one is arguing that. What the right wing argues is that the rich people are investing their money and not stuffing it in their mattress. So the theory is that if you whack them, they won't invest as much. I have yet to see a real analysis that proves or disproves this. Personally, I'm doubtful the effect of their investment with untaxed dollars amounts to all that much if you subtract out the investment government would make with those same dollars and if you subtract the amount rich people invest outside the U.S. And yes, investing in Grandma via Social Security is an investment. If it means she doesn't have to come and live with you so you have more money to spend which improves the economy. That said, generations of politicians have made promises with future tax money that America cannot possibly keep.
Yes, but it sounds like if MS could bring all their cash home, the jobs they'd like to create would go to H1Bs. So what is precisely the difference except that H1Bs must spend some of their dough to live in America.
Big American companies seem to want it both ways. Be protected by American laws, bring foreign-earned cash back to America to hire foreign H1Bs.
Yeah, but they need Allah to back them up so they don't all dissolve into Western-style guilt trips and require Vitamin P to live with the inner demons they've created or themselves. It is sort of the Flip in Flip Wilson, i.e., Allah made me do it.
This Allah, he's a funny guy, never says squat, can only communicate through angels and then via dreams. Doesn't bestow riches or anything on this dirtball planet. Yet legions are running around claiming anything they do is because Allah wills it. Allah at this point is indistinguishable from Satan.
The difference is lost on me. Al Q. only cares about not killing Muslims, and even then if they are only the right kind of Muslims. The new crew are equal opportunity killers. I'm sure to their victims the difference is substantial, yes?
Hehehehe...never watch CSPAN and Congress, have you? The President cannot arbitrarily close bases, it requires an act of Congress usually as part of the Defense Authorization Bill. The reason is that it involves finances. And then there are Congressional egos, money spent in home districts, etc. There are a lot of ancillary issues. The entire BRAC process was developed just to put some sort of reason into base closings. The Pentagon goes through a Base Realignment and Closure about every 5 years in a bid to keep the bases aligned with with national defense policy.
Those kind of people have never been owned by a cat. A brain the size of walnut generates the capacity to play, sulking when ownee admonishes it, buttering up the ownee for treats, etc. And then there is the room and board issue, it turns out most cats have a degree in financial services.
I think it depends on the resources available. If, say, some rogue scientists in, to pick a nice orderly with a long proud tradition of human rights, say Pakistan, were to synthesize a bioweapon...or a chem weapon, I could see them turning it over to the Taliban for disposal. This is what scares the hell out of the Pentagon and the Indian defence establishment but with respect to nuclear material. So the article might be right in that there is no threat to Johnny Ahmed producing a bio weapon, Dr. Johnny Ahmed working for a Pakistan uni might do so.
OSX is not free. It is built into the price of a Mac. And it should be. Linux is free, and it shows it. The lack of integration among the UI parts of Linux is enough to turn punters off. Windows is also not free, yet they still cannot seem to get a UI that doesn't drive you into pointless clicking and clacking. Mostly, it is because they don't have a clear vision for what the interface should be or what it should do or how it relates to the underlying system. It's a bolt on.
I've used all three. I prefer OSX, although I've not tried the umpteen Linux UIs, who has? But I also have some understanding of Unix and Linux under the covers so I can manipulate them usually to get what I need. Windows....well, I never took the time to learn it under the covers, but life is short and it is still Windows, the interface is just too horrid to use day in and day out.
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Gee, you should tell the Navy this. I'm sure it never occurred to them.
Yep, life in the Americas was a Bunny Life. The next tribe over the hill enslaved your women and killed your warriors in a spirit of love an harmony. The Aztecs were a hippie culture which cherished medicinal "herbs" and sang Kum-by-Ya by the firelight in the evenings before going off to make free love.
I don't think that is the Chinese model. They, rather, intend to build up to such an extent and any effort to "defend" what's left of Taiwan will be too costly for the U.S. to consider. In the meantime, they aim to make the U.S. Pacific Fleet much more expensive to defend and keep deployed. Those pinpricks around the S. China Sea are meant to see how much work they have to do to keep the U.S. Fleet occupied.
And taking out Beijing would only cause them to take out Los Angeles.
Nope. If we armored ships like the battleships of WWII, they'd be fat, slow, and cost too much to keep supplied with power. Modern Navies have moved way beyond that. Now the ticket is to kill the enemy first because no matter how you armor it, the enemy will always have a missile that can kill your ship.
"I oppose government defining anything for the private sector."
Really? How about new drugs? Would it be okay if Joe's Bait and Pharmacy put out a cure for cancer that might or might not kill you? FDA regulations prevent this. How about safety of cars and trucks? That's regulated but maybe we should let enough people in car make X get themselves killed dead so that people will no longer buy car make X. Airline safety is a big thing, but maybe you'd rather let the rules and regs on plane upkeep go away because the airlines have your life as their primary care. How about physicians? Why, anyone should be able to hang out a shingle and claim to be an MD. You'd go to them, right?
These are lawyers; of course they go where the money is. Yachts are not cheap, and the glory of screwing Google would do wonders for their law firms.
Yeah, you are right. The Office of Total Information Control is in charge of doling out information to control the people, a conspiracy like no other. Is it a coincidence no information showing U.S. Government involvement in WTC planning or execution has been leaked? I think not.
Hmmm....I think most Americans not living under a rock know about Syria. Now, for the big question: What would you have us do about Syria? Think carefully now, no re-expression of existing proposed solutions, we all know those as well. The government is waiting breathlessly for your answer.
From what I heard on the news (presumably this is correct), the nurse on station had determined the person had ebola like symptoms and noted it on his chart? well, s/he noted it on something. That fact was ignored and he was discharged.
Also, the person bears some responsibility. He goes to Liberia, works with a known Ebola patient (another thing I read and presumably true), comes back and fails to tell his doctors this. He claims they didn't ask, which does not relieve him of the responsibility to tell them. Then he has the temerity to go home and come in contact with other family members and friends.
What's really weird is that you consider a sexual slur integral to your argument.
Really? So, say the slaughter on an industrial scale of the Nazies, or Stalin, or Mao is somehow similar to the single murder? Even Stalin was bright enough to observe that quantity has a quality all its own.
Hey Chinese leaders, want to make your manhood look bigger? Give Tibet its freedom back. Renounce your insane claims to all of the S. China Sea, and stop threatening Taiwan. Until that happens, no amount of space funnies is going to make men out of you.
No one is arguing that. What the right wing argues is that the rich people are investing their money and not stuffing it in their mattress. So the theory is that if you whack them, they won't invest as much. I have yet to see a real analysis that proves or disproves this. Personally, I'm doubtful the effect of their investment with untaxed dollars amounts to all that much if you subtract out the investment government would make with those same dollars and if you subtract the amount rich people invest outside the U.S. And yes, investing in Grandma via Social Security is an investment. If it means she doesn't have to come and live with you so you have more money to spend which improves the economy. That said, generations of politicians have made promises with future tax money that America cannot possibly keep.
Yes, but it sounds like if MS could bring all their cash home, the jobs they'd like to create would go to H1Bs. So what is precisely the difference except that H1Bs must spend some of their dough to live in America.
Big American companies seem to want it both ways. Be protected by American laws, bring foreign-earned cash back to America to hire foreign H1Bs.
Now you've done it. Emma Watson is going to come in to this forum and we'll have to discuss the gender inequalities with respect to black holes.
Yeah, but they need Allah to back them up so they don't all dissolve into Western-style guilt trips and require Vitamin P to live with the inner demons they've created or themselves. It is sort of the Flip in Flip Wilson, i.e., Allah made me do it.
This Allah, he's a funny guy, never says squat, can only communicate through angels and then via dreams. Doesn't bestow riches or anything on this dirtball planet. Yet legions are running around claiming anything they do is because Allah wills it. Allah at this point is indistinguishable from Satan.
The difference is lost on me. Al Q. only cares about not killing Muslims, and even then if they are only the right kind of Muslims. The new crew are equal opportunity killers. I'm sure to their victims the difference is substantial, yes?
Hehehehe...never watch CSPAN and Congress, have you? The President cannot arbitrarily close bases, it requires an act of Congress usually as part of the Defense Authorization Bill. The reason is that it involves finances. And then there are Congressional egos, money spent in home districts, etc. There are a lot of ancillary issues. The entire BRAC process was developed just to put some sort of reason into base closings. The Pentagon goes through a Base Realignment and Closure about every 5 years in a bid to keep the bases aligned with with national defense policy.
More accurately, he doesn't want to because he knows they'll rejoin the fight and then have to answer to the consequences of letting them go.
Those kind of people have never been owned by a cat. A brain the size of walnut generates the capacity to play, sulking when ownee admonishes it, buttering up the ownee for treats, etc. And then there is the room and board issue, it turns out most cats have a degree in financial services.
Yeah, but that was just because they were ugly cubs.
I guess this explains China lusting after Taiwan.
Not with monkey hands, but I'm sure the NRA can come up with a triggering mechanism they can use.
I think it depends on the resources available. If, say, some rogue scientists in, to pick a nice orderly with a long proud tradition of human rights, say Pakistan, were to synthesize a bioweapon...or a chem weapon, I could see them turning it over to the Taliban for disposal. This is what scares the hell out of the Pentagon and the Indian defence establishment but with respect to nuclear material. So the article might be right in that there is no threat to Johnny Ahmed producing a bio weapon, Dr. Johnny Ahmed working for a Pakistan uni might do so.
OSX is not free. It is built into the price of a Mac. And it should be. Linux is free, and it shows it. The lack of integration among the UI parts of Linux is enough to turn punters off. Windows is also not free, yet they still cannot seem to get a UI that doesn't drive you into pointless clicking and clacking. Mostly, it is because they don't have a clear vision for what the interface should be or what it should do or how it relates to the underlying system. It's a bolt on.
I've used all three. I prefer OSX, although I've not tried the umpteen Linux UIs, who has? But I also have some understanding of Unix and Linux under the covers so I can manipulate them usually to get what I need. Windows....well, I never took the time to learn it under the covers, but life is short and it is still Windows, the interface is just too horrid to use day in and day out.