I wonder what constitutes a "private photo" for Zuckerberg, my guess is he has no photos that would be even remotely interesting since he knows the ins and outs of FB, and why does spell check want to turn "zuckerberg" into "rubbernecker"?
Yep, we even had our version of Caeser fiddling while Rome burned, except our version was a wet brained, drug addled G.W.Bush playing the guitar while New Orleans sank.
"matte painters, skybox artists, animation riggers, texture artists and on an on" All of which can be outsourced to another country, remember when Disney did their own animations? Now it's a team of hacks somewhere in Taiwan or China.
My original point being Hollywood used the reduced need for physical sets and their work crews due to green screen / animation to further their message on piracy creating job loss.
Far less people involved and as technology advances I expect to see even fewer people involved and complete shows with no humans, just like a Pixar animation but simulating meat actors instead of cartoon characters. take your average sitcom, the same story told over and over again to the delight of the drooling masses how hard will it be to sell them fake actors. All of this while pointing to piracy as the cause of job loss, the woe of the industry when several studies have shown otherwise, I'm too lazy to post those studies for you you do the digging.
It's amusing that your argument now hinges around some apparent misunderstanding on my part involving minerals rather than the original topic we were discussing. Reasons to go to war in Afghanistan.
Side note: It's interesting that Hollywood at one point claimed that piracy was resulting in the loss of jobs in the movie industry, upon closer inspection the jobs were carpenters, set designers, construction teams, backdrop painter, and the like, the loss mostly due to green screen and CGI. But hey it's Hollywood and they know how to sell it.
Then we get into semantics, Grenada was an "invasion" not a war, as for Kuwait we were just part of a coalition, (hard not to laugh there) but congress did approve it so I guess it was a "war" and you are right in that we won it if by winning you mean we returned control of Kuwait to out business partners.
That is an excellent description of what happened, so I have a question in your mind which would have been easier to deal with, the religious zealots or the communist?
Because one way or another (as we have witnessed) that land is going to be used.
First: the mineral rights of the rare metals alone make it worth it as currently China controls ~95% of the World supply. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/business/global/china-consolidates-control-of-rare-earth-industry.html?pagewanted=all Second: the pincer movement is valid in a political sense, not so much in the hardware sense, but that's my bad for not being more explicit. Third: but not last, is that the pipeline would increase revenue massively, the amount of money saved plus the volume shipped clearly makes it worth the effort, because the corporations involved profit both from the oil and gas that will flow and by supplying the weapons needed for war while the civilian citizenry around the World pays for the privilege of "Easy Energy".
You're just advocating mass murder again, the OP was discussing nuking entire cities for some perceived violation, (or did you forget to log in) what problems have they cause you that you would sanction wholesale slaughter of civilians?
As for your post, sure they cause problems for their neighbors and citizens, they being the religious leadership and the typical political leadership for that area, but every state has this to one degree or another, including the US (See internment of Japanese American citizens during WW2, black rights and the illegal testing done on them, slaughter of Indians with biological warfare, the war crimes of the US around the World in multiple theaters) your reasoning is faulty, your cognition below average, and your English atrocious.
What about the fact that Iran is sandwiched between Iraq and Afghanistan? In military parlance it's referred to as a pincer movement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincer_movement
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I wonder what constitutes a "private photo" for Zuckerberg, my guess is he has no photos that would be even remotely interesting since he knows the ins and outs of FB, and why does spell check want to turn "zuckerberg" into "rubbernecker"?
It's all related somehow...
Yep, we even had our version of Caeser fiddling while Rome burned, except our version was a wet brained, drug addled G.W.Bush playing the guitar while New Orleans sank.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_complex
Now you know what war is really for.
And yet you continue to debate it with me, what can be said of a person that argues with a "clueless" person?
"matte painters, skybox artists, animation riggers, texture artists and on an on"
All of which can be outsourced to another country, remember when Disney did their own animations? Now it's a team of hacks somewhere in Taiwan or China.
My original point being Hollywood used the reduced need for physical sets and their work crews due to green screen / animation to further their message on piracy creating job loss.
Far less people involved and as technology advances I expect to see even fewer people involved and complete shows with no humans, just like a Pixar animation but simulating meat actors instead of cartoon characters. take your average sitcom, the same story told over and over again to the delight of the drooling masses how hard will it be to sell them fake actors.
All of this while pointing to piracy as the cause of job loss, the woe of the industry when several studies have shown otherwise, I'm too lazy to post those studies for you you do the digging.
It's amusing that your argument now hinges around some apparent misunderstanding on my part involving minerals rather than the original topic we were discussing.
Reasons to go to war in Afghanistan.
Oh and here's another Wikipedia article for you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_earth_element
If you're an Israeli.
See: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Side note: It's interesting that Hollywood at one point claimed that piracy was resulting in the loss of jobs in the movie industry, upon closer inspection the jobs were carpenters, set designers, construction teams, backdrop painter, and the like, the loss mostly due to green screen and CGI.
But hey it's Hollywood and they know how to sell it.
Looks like a netbook to me bro, since your needs are so narrow an iPad with a keyboard (netbook) are all you really need.
No the issue is your attitude.
I believe it was between the Allies and the Axis of which the Allies won and the US was a part of that.
Yep, pretty hard to tell who won but it's always easy to see who lost.
Then we get into semantics, Grenada was an "invasion" not a war, as for Kuwait we were just part of a coalition, (hard not to laugh there) but congress did approve it so I guess it was a "war" and you are right in that we won it if by winning you mean we returned control of Kuwait to out business partners.
I stand corrected.
That is an excellent description of what happened, so I have a question in your mind which would have been easier to deal with, the religious zealots or the communist?
Because one way or another (as we have witnessed) that land is going to be used.
Silly me I thought you were going to bring up human rights and that sort of thing.
First: the mineral rights of the rare metals alone make it worth it as currently China controls ~95% of the World supply.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/business/global/china-consolidates-control-of-rare-earth-industry.html?pagewanted=all
Second: the pincer movement is valid in a political sense, not so much in the hardware sense, but that's my bad for not being more explicit.
Third: but not last, is that the pipeline would increase revenue massively, the amount of money saved plus the volume shipped clearly makes it worth the effort, because the corporations involved profit both from the oil and gas that will flow and by supplying the weapons needed for war while the civilian citizenry around the World pays for the privilege of "Easy Energy".
Finally, there is clearly plenty of reason to be there and they already tried being "nice" about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unocal_Corporation#Controversy
Didn't you ever wonder why the US supplied the Afghans with Russian/US made weapons during the Russian occupation of Afghan?
Don't bother replying until you've read a book, even a comic book will do.
You're just advocating mass murder again, the OP was discussing nuking entire cities for some perceived violation, (or did you forget to log in) what problems have they cause you that you would sanction wholesale slaughter of civilians?
As for your post, sure they cause problems for their neighbors and citizens, they being the religious leadership and the typical political leadership for that area, but every state has this to one degree or another, including the US (See internment of Japanese American citizens during WW2, black rights and the illegal testing done on them, slaughter of Indians with biological warfare, the war crimes of the US around the World in multiple theaters) your reasoning is faulty, your cognition below average, and your English atrocious.
So lets apply your logic from the Iranian perspective, still feel the same way?
Very insightful post.
I have often wondered who Israel's worst enemy is.
"Israel is, unfortunately, still one of the best things in and about the Middle East."
I wonder how you came to that conclusion.
No reason to be there?
What about the Caspian pipeline?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Afghanistan_Pipeline
What about rare metals?
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/afghanminerals/raremetal.htm
What about the fact that Iran is sandwiched between Iraq and Afghanistan?
In military parlance it's referred to as a pincer movement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincer_movement
No that is not why Israel has the loudest voice, loudest meaning most widely heard, keep trying.
What is there to "win" in Afghanistan? We had an opportunity to be their friends/ally after the Russians left but we didn't.
No one wins in Afghanistan, no one.
America has not won a single war since WW2.
I agree the predictability of it is shameful, I wonder if we would have less trouble in the Middle East if we dropped Israel as an "ally".