Most of the posts in response to this story seem to focus on * Bad Grammar * Bad Jokes * US Politics (how the fuck everything can be related to US politics is beyond me) * Ethnic Slurs (including of course the obligatory insults to Muslims that must appear in any article on anything these days. Keep up the hate guys, its only helping your reputation with the rest of the world). * Lastly, and apparently leastly, some outrage at the destruction of a part of human history, thus lessening our understanding of the same by some degree. A site like this belongs to all of humanity, its our heritage, its a way to understand where we came from and thus perhaps where we might be going. The people who knocked this temple down (and the owner of the company responsible) should be in prison for the rest of their lives. Hopefully this at least serves to make governments all through the region aware of the need to protect heritage sites like this. Without our history, we are *nothing*.
But with more people being diagnosed as mentally ill, and thus more people receiving prescription medicines, the profit margins of Big Pharma (tm) will only go up!
Will no one think of the major pharmaceutical companies?
I don't think its a vast conspiracy, so much as generations of doctors being educated that drugs are the solution to mental problems, and that all mental illness can be treated by some drug treatment. Also this wacky idea that we all have to match some theoretical norm of some sort. "When all you have is a hammer..." etc.
My friends and I (about 8 or so of us) tried WOW when it was in beta. We signed up for the first month, then pretty much all of us except 2 quit the game before the month was up because it was far too easy and boring. I am always stunned to see how many millions have played it when at least to me, it was so unremarkable a game and a worse time sink that most of the other MMOs I have played.
Also Athens at its height was around 20,000 citizens (plus women and children who didn't count) and over 100,000 slaves who actually did all the work. In effect all that democracy and philosophy we treasure was brought to us by elite misogynist slave owners:P
If they do replace it all, I bet they opt for the top end HTML5 driven solution - resulting in a problem for those who don't have computers modern enough to run an HTML5 browser:P
Just make your fucking websites using bog standard HTML forms, zero javascript and everyone can be happy except the designers who were hoping to charge extra for all the unnecessary bling enabled by javascript.
So is the differences in sounds distinguished by listeners. Its called "Canadian Rising" and is uncommon with US speakers unless they are near the border but common in Canada. Its what makes US speakers who do not hear the difference, think we are saying Aboot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_raising
Except the first thing that banks would be required to do would be to furnish records of the transactions to the government. In order to verify a unit of currency you would need a tool to check its cryptographic validity, and that would need to be certified, meaning its location would be included most likely and then there would be a way to track the currency again. I don't think it can be anonymous in a way that prevents undesirable entities from gaining information about it and you. Thats the nice thing about paper money. Once you have it you can spend it without it being traced - unless you put in the hands of a bank, or transfer it electronically etc. As paper its pretty anonymous - but of course subject to counterfeiting etc.
Americans seem completely unable to hear the difference between our pronunciation of "About" as/abawt/ and instead hear/abu:t/ I can't understand how someone can't hear the difference of course, being Canadian myself, but I see the stupid "Aboot" thing spouted so many times by Americans, I have to assume its true.
The first scene, in the first movie, is a slo-mo shot of Jar-Jar Binks getting his head sliced off with a lightsaber. That might go a ways towards regaining the audience that Lucas has managed to piss off so heavily with eps 1-3. Casually mention a disease that wiped out all the Gungans and Ewoks...
I doubt it though, I imagine Disney will continue the Lucas development cycle: 1) Think of products that can be marketed easily to kids 2) Come up with some script that links those products together in some manner. Regular rules for storytelling, or logic need not apply. Hire any actors who will sign, giving the main roll to the worst actor you get. 3) Sell as much merchandise as possible, use some of the profits to make the next movie, starting over at 1.
I sincerely hope I am wrong mind you and that Disney hires someone who *gets* what was attractive about most of Eps 4-6 and makes films in keeping with those at least, but I doubt it will turn out that way.
I believe that was a reference to the rash of horse meat being substituted for beef in meats across Europe. That said, most Americans probably think the Angus beef originated in Texas or somewhere similar.
Bonus points for using "Go" as your example. With regards to strategies, we might find that once this whole NK thing is completed - however that ends, that the Chinese have made some important moves elsewhere that go unnoticed. China is really gearing up to become the preeminent superpower down the road. They are no where near there yet of course but if their economy continues to improve the way it has, and they continue to do all the manufacturing for the rest of the world, that may well change sooner than we think. I expect a conflict between the US and China over Taiwan in the next 8-10 years.
Plus its worth noting that Napoleon actually took Moscow but couldn't hold it in the end - something the German army failed to do in WWII. He was sick at Waterloo and thus not at his best and he faced a brilliant British commander AND a truly tough Prussian commander. It was really the Prussians who won Waterloo. The British held which was pretty amazing but if the Prussians hadn't made it to the French flank, the British would have been broken pretty soon.
Someone already thought about that quite a while ago. We used to have the Distant Early Warning System (DEW line) up north, but that was dismantled and replaced with this:
There are minor differences but nothing that will greatly impact the important and powerful business interests that determine policy. Its mostly a difference between Extreme Right Wing and merely Right Wing from my perspective:P
My point was that the US has often pushed a foreign policy that claimed to be enacted to promote democracy in other countries, fighting the war against Communism etc etc. This is playing on Americans justifiable pride in the ideals which gave birth to their country and its constitution as justification for actions which are not in keeping with those ideals or that documents great principals. If you claim the moral high-ground you ought to act in a manner that indicates you really believe your ideals.
Of course a governments purpose internally is to maintain its laws, help and protect its citizens etc, but its policy with regards to other countries and their affairs ought to be in keeping with its own laws. I am Canadian. I am proud of my country and its history, culture etc. I expect my government to act in keeping with what we as Canadian citizens believe are important values consistent with our Constitution. If it acts in contradiction to those principals then its making my country into a Hypocrite, and I don't want that and neither do most of my fellow citizens. I expect the majority of Americans would hold the same view.
I think its doing any true democracy a major disservice to push a foreign policy that favor dictators and corporate interests over the ideals upon which the country was founded, that its citizens hold dearly etc. Those who are involuntarily subjected to that foreign policy in other countries are going to look very dimly upon us.
Even the Soviets didn't call themselves a Communist state, they called themselves Socialists. They aspired to a Communist state but didn't think they had gotten there. Their brand of Socialism was of course very Totalitarian pretty damn quickly.
The real problem with Communism in my opinion is that it makes it far too easy for totalitarian individuals to take over and inflict their will on their fellow citizens. Stalin killed millions, more than Hitler and the Fascists I believe, albeit in a less organized manner. The same thing is of course true if you go to the other end of the spectrum with Fascism. Somewhere in the middle is the best compromise.
The problem with Capitalism seems to be that our democratic governments have become "captured organizations" (or whatever the term is) controlled by large corporations and lobby groups to do their bidding. Less totalitarian by far for the most part, but only if the citizens keep paying attention. Sadly, we are paying less attention these days or at least most of us are apparently. Neither system is optimal in my opinion, but Capitalism is less harmful, at least so far. I don't hold out that much hope for the future though since we keep sliding to the right further and further and government by Corporate fiat is not gonna be any better than either Communism or Fascism.
What I personally prefer is a Democracy with some socialist elements (not the big S Socialism that most Americans immediately bring to mind however), such as we had in some ways up here in Canada. Our right wing elected governments are busily stamping out the Crown corporations that used to operate some elements of our economy of course but many of those worked quite well at one point. Their replacements are often not working very well at all. Opinions may differ on the performances of course.
Its a much more comfortable world when you see things only in black and white, and know that God (tm) is on your side no matter what you do.:P Its much harder for those people to understand that you can support Democracy while simultaneously criticizing some aspect of the way its being conducted.
If the US had had more interest in actually promoting democracy and democratic changes when promulgating its foreign policy, the result would have been more democratic countries that used the US as a model, or at least viewed it in a positive way. On those few occasions when the US has acted in a manner that reflected its own ideals, this has often been the result. Sadly US foreign policy has usually been shortsighted, focused on advancing US corporate interests and ensuring "stability" in a region - with "stability" usually being in the form of a brutal dictatorship. Things that should at least theoretically not be in keeping with US ideals. Apparently its more important that say US Sugar keeps its control over the sugar industry than the people of the Dominican republic get to have democratic rule and fair laws etc. Mostly it seems the US ideals are seen as being for US citizens only, and that its okay if the rest of the world suffers wars, massacres, dictatorships, etc to make that possible. This is why so many foreign countries dislike the US so much in the end.
It was a struggle between which type of control of the population would win. The Communist methods are obviously reprehensible, caused millions of deaths and ultimately failed. The western methods of exerting control over the general public are much less odious, but just as effective in the end. Either way, the people at the top own us, and we do what they want us to do. I have some hope though, when I see information like this released to the general public. It's a great thing to see the workings behind the scenes so we can get a better understanding of what was actually going on.
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See Heritage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage
Specifically "the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society: man-made heritage"
I wasn't using "belongs" to mean ownership and you were completely aware of that, but chose to speak like a fucking moron instead.
The Prenda porn is only *gay* porn? So you mean I didn't have to delete all my porn collection just in case.... cries :P
Most of the posts in response to this story seem to focus on
* Bad Grammar
* Bad Jokes
* US Politics (how the fuck everything can be related to US politics is beyond me)
* Ethnic Slurs (including of course the obligatory insults to Muslims that must appear in any article on anything these days. Keep up the hate guys, its only helping your reputation with the rest of the world).
* Lastly, and apparently leastly, some outrage at the destruction of a part of human history, thus lessening our understanding of the same by some degree. A site like this belongs to all of humanity, its our heritage, its a way to understand where we came from and thus perhaps where we might be going. The people who knocked this temple down (and the owner of the company responsible) should be in prison for the rest of their lives.
Hopefully this at least serves to make governments all through the region aware of the need to protect heritage sites like this. Without our history, we are *nothing*.
But with more people being diagnosed as mentally ill, and thus more people receiving prescription medicines, the profit margins of Big Pharma (tm) will only go up!
Will no one think of the major pharmaceutical companies?
I don't think its a vast conspiracy, so much as generations of doctors being educated that drugs are the solution to mental problems, and that all mental illness can be treated by some drug treatment. Also this wacky idea that we all have to match some theoretical norm of some sort. "When all you have is a hammer..." etc.
My friends and I (about 8 or so of us) tried WOW when it was in beta. We signed up for the first month, then pretty much all of us except 2 quit the game before the month was up because it was far too easy and boring. I am always stunned to see how many millions have played it when at least to me, it was so unremarkable a game and a worse time sink that most of the other MMOs I have played.
Also Athens at its height was around 20,000 citizens (plus women and children who didn't count) and over 100,000 slaves who actually did all the work. In effect all that democracy and philosophy we treasure was brought to us by elite misogynist slave owners :P
If they do replace it all, I bet they opt for the top end HTML5 driven solution - resulting in a problem for those who don't have computers modern enough to run an HTML5 browser :P
Just make your fucking websites using bog standard HTML forms, zero javascript and everyone can be happy except the designers who were hoping to charge extra for all the unnecessary bling enabled by javascript.
Ah but for me, every day is "Don't buy an EA game day" already. Likewise anything from SOE :P
Excellent point. Thank you for brightening my day :P
So is the differences in sounds distinguished by listeners. Its called "Canadian Rising" and is uncommon with US speakers unless they are near the border but common in Canada. Its what makes US speakers who do not hear the difference, think we are saying Aboot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_raising
Except the first thing that banks would be required to do would be to furnish records of the transactions to the government. In order to verify a unit of currency you would need a tool to check its cryptographic validity, and that would need to be certified, meaning its location would be included most likely and then there would be a way to track the currency again.
I don't think it can be anonymous in a way that prevents undesirable entities from gaining information about it and you.
Thats the nice thing about paper money. Once you have it you can spend it without it being traced - unless you put in the hands of a bank, or transfer it electronically etc. As paper its pretty anonymous - but of course subject to counterfeiting etc.
Americans seem completely unable to hear the difference between our pronunciation of "About" as /abawt/ and instead hear /abu:t/
I can't understand how someone can't hear the difference of course, being Canadian myself, but I see the stupid "Aboot" thing spouted so many times by Americans, I have to assume its true.
Well since this is apparently from the guy who the article is talking about, perhaps someone could mod it up just a bit?
No points here
The first scene, in the first movie, is a slo-mo shot of Jar-Jar Binks getting his head sliced off with a lightsaber. That might go a ways towards regaining the audience that Lucas has managed to piss off so heavily with eps 1-3. Casually mention a disease that wiped out all the Gungans and Ewoks...
I doubt it though, I imagine Disney will continue the Lucas development cycle:
1) Think of products that can be marketed easily to kids
2) Come up with some script that links those products together in some manner. Regular rules for storytelling, or logic need not apply. Hire any actors who will sign, giving the main roll to the worst actor you get.
3) Sell as much merchandise as possible, use some of the profits to make the next movie, starting over at 1.
I sincerely hope I am wrong mind you and that Disney hires someone who *gets* what was attractive about most of Eps 4-6 and makes films in keeping with those at least, but I doubt it will turn out that way.
I believe that was a reference to the rash of horse meat being substituted for beef in meats across Europe. That said, most Americans probably think the Angus beef originated in Texas or somewhere similar.
Bonus points for using "Go" as your example. With regards to strategies, we might find that once this whole NK thing is completed - however that ends, that the Chinese have made some important moves elsewhere that go unnoticed. China is really gearing up to become the preeminent superpower down the road. They are no where near there yet of course but if their economy continues to improve the way it has, and they continue to do all the manufacturing for the rest of the world, that may well change sooner than we think.
I expect a conflict between the US and China over Taiwan in the next 8-10 years.
Plus its worth noting that Napoleon actually took Moscow but couldn't hold it in the end - something the German army failed to do in WWII.
He was sick at Waterloo and thus not at his best and he faced a brilliant British commander AND a truly tough Prussian commander. It was really the Prussians who won Waterloo. The British held which was pretty amazing but if the Prussians hadn't made it to the French flank, the British would have been broken pretty soon.
Someone already thought about that quite a while ago. We used to have the Distant Early Warning System (DEW line) up north, but that was dismantled and replaced with this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_Missile_Early_Warning_System
As a side note, I almost ended up working in a DEW line station, I almost wish I had just for the experience.
There are minor differences but nothing that will greatly impact the important and powerful business interests that determine policy. Its mostly a difference between Extreme Right Wing and merely Right Wing from my perspective :P
How about making the defaults be set to:
username: ChangeYourUsername
password: ChangeYourPassword
How clueless do you have to be to ignore that?
My point was that the US has often pushed a foreign policy that claimed to be enacted to promote democracy in other countries, fighting the war against Communism etc etc. This is playing on Americans justifiable pride in the ideals which gave birth to their country and its constitution as justification for actions which are not in keeping with those ideals or that documents great principals. If you claim the moral high-ground you ought to act in a manner that indicates you really believe your ideals.
Of course a governments purpose internally is to maintain its laws, help and protect its citizens etc, but its policy with regards to other countries and their affairs ought to be in keeping with its own laws. I am Canadian. I am proud of my country and its history, culture etc. I expect my government to act in keeping with what we as Canadian citizens believe are important values consistent with our Constitution. If it acts in contradiction to those principals then its making my country into a Hypocrite, and I don't want that and neither do most of my fellow citizens. I expect the majority of Americans would hold the same view.
I think its doing any true democracy a major disservice to push a foreign policy that favor dictators and corporate interests over the ideals upon which the country was founded, that its citizens hold dearly etc. Those who are involuntarily subjected to that foreign policy in other countries are going to look very dimly upon us.
Even the Soviets didn't call themselves a Communist state, they called themselves Socialists. They aspired to a Communist state but didn't think they had gotten there. Their brand of Socialism was of course very Totalitarian pretty damn quickly.
The real problem with Communism in my opinion is that it makes it far too easy for totalitarian individuals to take over and inflict their will on their fellow citizens. Stalin killed millions, more than Hitler and the Fascists I believe, albeit in a less organized manner. The same thing is of course true if you go to the other end of the spectrum with Fascism.
Somewhere in the middle is the best compromise.
The problem with Capitalism seems to be that our democratic governments have become "captured organizations" (or whatever the term is) controlled by large corporations and lobby groups to do their bidding. Less totalitarian by far for the most part, but only if the citizens keep paying attention. Sadly, we are paying less attention these days or at least most of us are apparently. Neither system is optimal in my opinion, but Capitalism is less harmful, at least so far. I don't hold out that much hope for the future though since we keep sliding to the right further and further and government by Corporate fiat is not gonna be any better than either Communism or Fascism.
What I personally prefer is a Democracy with some socialist elements (not the big S Socialism that most Americans immediately bring to mind however), such as we had in some ways up here in Canada. Our right wing elected governments are busily stamping out the Crown corporations that used to operate some elements of our economy of course but many of those worked quite well at one point. Their replacements are often not working very well at all. Opinions may differ on the performances of course.
Its a much more comfortable world when you see things only in black and white, and know that God (tm) is on your side no matter what you do. :P
Its much harder for those people to understand that you can support Democracy while simultaneously criticizing some aspect of the way its being conducted.
If the US had had more interest in actually promoting democracy and democratic changes when promulgating its foreign policy, the result would have been more democratic countries that used the US as a model, or at least viewed it in a positive way. On those few occasions when the US has acted in a manner that reflected its own ideals, this has often been the result.
Sadly US foreign policy has usually been shortsighted, focused on advancing US corporate interests and ensuring "stability" in a region - with "stability" usually being in the form of a brutal dictatorship. Things that should at least theoretically not be in keeping with US ideals. Apparently its more important that say US Sugar keeps its control over the sugar industry than the people of the Dominican republic get to have democratic rule and fair laws etc. Mostly it seems the US ideals are seen as being for US citizens only, and that its okay if the rest of the world suffers wars, massacres, dictatorships, etc to make that possible. This is why so many foreign countries dislike the US so much in the end.
It was a struggle between which type of control of the population would win. The Communist methods are obviously reprehensible, caused millions of deaths and ultimately failed. The western methods of exerting control over the general public are much less odious, but just as effective in the end. Either way, the people at the top own us, and we do what they want us to do.
I have some hope though, when I see information like this released to the general public. It's a great thing to see the workings behind the scenes so we can get a better understanding of what was actually going on.