By re-making Japan in their own image, the Americans gained a strong ally instead of creating a bitter foe.
No, we gained a bitter foe. Japan is still fighting WWII against us only they're doing it economically rather than militarily.
Why attack the nation that put you back on your feet?
Because the fact that they owe everything they have to us is (in their opinion) a grave insult to their culture. This is the downside to any sort of "humanitarian" aid. People end up resenting charity of any sort. I'm not saying that all humanitarian aid should be stopped, just that it has a downside that isn't often addressed.
Put in a few Freedom of Information Act requests for declassified NSA and CIA documents fromt he 60's. They'll help open your eyes a little.
Well, they would if GWB hadn't gutted the FOIA. You do know that his stated policy is to fight *all* FOIA requests and he passed an executive order to make it easier don't you?
Did M.U.L.E. on the C64 even support four human players?
Yes. I had one friend with an atari, and the rest of my computer owning friends had comies.
You pick your key on the keyboard.
We played it on both, and I'm not aware of any difference. So the guy who said it was better on the 64 was most likely wrong as well.
I wasn't aware that it was coded on the atari, but it explainns why the game is set on the planet Irata.
BTW has anyone been able to get 7 Cities of Gold to work an any of the emulators? I get to the start new game hit F3 or F7 screen and it dies. I've tried it with 3 separate Mac emulators and 1 Linux one with identical results.
Any city without an adequate public transit system is, IMHO, not a "major" city.:)
If you are using this as part of your definition of major city, then it's not arguable since it's a definition, but by most other definitions, LA is a major city and public transportation there is crap.
Have you ever actually tried the bus or the train? San Diego has an excellent system.
I haven't ridden the bus in years here, but it took a loooong time to get anywhere. I worked downtown for a while and took the trolley. It works well, but only if you are near to a station, and have a car to get to the station. It would add at least an hour to bus to the trolley station and back.
Driving is a hassle.
True
Ride the bus and read the paper, relax on the way to work tomorrow.
Unfortunately this won't work for me. I am self employed and do consulting for companies all over the county: downtown, Sorrento Valley, Carlsbad, etc. Granted this is a somewhat unusual situation, but I spent a few weeks in London in September and was amazed by the public transportation system. This is even given that most Londoners seemed to be bitching about how it's gone way downhill recently.
I'm going back to my trusty tomato cans and a long line of sting soon, that is until the NSA figures out how to listen in on my conversations by using a laser to read the vibrations off the string.... dang it!
The frightening thing is I doubt it would take them long.
You need to modify this with "some" In San Diego you *have* to drive or your life is practically worthless. Public transportation is crap and the city is huge geographically for its population.
Funny. My girlfriend is a vegetarian (not for moral reasons, it just creeps her out) and she said that the number 1 downfall of vegetarians is bacon. She goes crazy for bacon flavored "crisps" ( these are potato chips to us Americans she's British) and we always have a plentiful supply of fake bacon bits in the house.
fucking easy, just add a parameter to the linked one. then you have 2 cases:
no param with referer from your case study = cutnpaste
param with refer from your case study = clicked.
OK, not bad. You do have 2 cases, but not exactly the 2 you stated.
The parameter case works fine, but the no parameter is the *copy* and paste (sorry, pet peave, you don't cut anything from a web page) plus anyone else who got to the site without clicking a link.
This would be bad if you were trying to prove the point that it's more or less equal or biased toward people copying and pasting URLs.
If you wanted to bias the study the other way, you could put different parameters in the text. There would be a certain percentage who skipped copying that to avoid paying referrers and such.
Any ideas how to make it more valid as a survey method?
(wasn't it 3 who died in Apollo 10---for America---anyway?)
Apollo 1, Challenger was the first time Americans died after the thing took off. The Apollo 1 deaths were during a test. They were caused by the explosivity of velcro in a pressurized oxygen environment as warned in advance by the company that made the capsule.
(All info in this post is from "From the Earth to The Moon" which I think freaking rocked, but if it's inaccurate, that's why.)
Eh? I know a lot of people with wi-fi setups. Not one of them is a non-tech person. Wi-fi is still so new that only the techies get into it.
I have one friend who has wifi in his house he is quite technically astute and at the same time (believe it or not) a salesman; the best in his company.
He got into it after it was installed in his office which is full of salespeople. Their one IT guy is a complete fucktard by all accounts. I have heard accounts from at least 7 people who work or worked there and it's a small office.
Not to dispute your story, which is your experience, but there are many other experiences out there.
My personal favorite is the "Modem Blaster" absolute junk.
Oops. I first saw one of these today, when I installed (ok plugged it into the serial port and loaded the driver) it for a local business. They bought it not me, but what's wrong with it?
I was a "techie" in the Microsoft world and heaven knows Linux was a complete change for me. I couldn't figure out how to move a directory for weeks after switching!:)
No offense, but if you couldn't figure out how to move a directory in Linux for weeks after switching from Windows, then you were not a "techie" in Windows. This implies that you were not aware of the nearly identical command line tools in Windows to do the same thing. If you only know how to use the GUI in Windows then you are *not* a techie.
I disagree. They are consistently on par with every other news source on Microsoft. Also, they *very* rarely have links to any site other than Microsoft. They mention Sun, Netscape etc, but without links to their sites. They then say things less than positive about MS, but with their site linked, generally to a page of MS propaganda about whatever the latest bad thing MS did so you can see their spin, but not the spin from the victim of their latest misdeed. Sure you can copy and paste, but it is an effective tool to subtly mislead.
Actually, that would be an interesting study. Something like, have a server serve two pages each to 50% of the requests. One with links and one with plain text URLs. See what the difference is in followers. It seems tough to do though since you don't have the referrer to go by. Any ideas anyone?
reading all twelve books in sequence, Where can I find the other 2 books? All available evidence indicates that there are only 10. The Tarzan series has 24.
So you're saying the fact that there are several religions based on this supposed mythical person is not evidence in and of itself?
Indeed I am. I think you actually agree with me, unless you think that Zeus, Quetzlcoatl, Baal, and thousands of other beings around which religions are based actually existed.
For more info check out http://members.aol.com/FLJOSEPHUS/home.htm
I will check this out. It was my understanding that there was zero mention of him in Roman records.
Whoever modded you as flamebait is an ass. I asked a question politely and you answered in the same manner. I got troll *and* insightful both of which are wrong. Interesting at best, but just plain nothing would have been most accurate in my opinion.
I think you mean, "There are legends which speak of a person called christ who was born 2000 years ago". Unless you can provide some evidence for his existence? No, the bible doesn't count.
An (assumed) American telling us how to speak English! Ha ha!
Correct assumption. I have been speaking English for as long as you assuming that we're the same age so your point is?
It's 'some lego', not 'legos' because it's not 'a lego', it's 'a lego brick'.
My point is that "some lego" sounds stupid. The proper way to say it would be "Some Lego brand building bricks". This is ungainly hence you simplify this. The vast majority of people simplify this further to legos. Does the Lego company make anything besides legos? No. Hence there is no ambiguity.
I'm making cookies using (some) 'flour', not 'flours'. Jeez.
Of course. A mass of ground wheat is called flour. Where's the problem?
Lego is the plural of Lego. Lego is the company. If you must add an 's', use "Lego bricks." The bastardization "Legos" grates on any true fans nerves. Please don't use it.
This well may be grammatically correct, but it sounds dumb to me. What you're saying doesn't sound dumb, but, "I'm playing with Lego" sounds dumb when there are more than one of them. The vast majority of English speakers agree, hence the repeated use of it this way. I'm generally all for correct grammar, but there are times when the correct way is just wrong. This is such a case.
For the (hopefully) last time:
Nope, it won't be, for the reasons given above. Please try not to let it get to you.
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By re-making Japan in their own image, the Americans gained a strong ally instead of creating a bitter foe.
No, we gained a bitter foe. Japan is still fighting WWII against us only they're doing it economically rather than militarily.
Why attack the nation that put you back on your feet?
Because the fact that they owe everything they have to us is (in their opinion) a grave insult to their culture. This is the downside to any sort of "humanitarian" aid. People end up resenting charity of any sort. I'm not saying that all humanitarian aid should be stopped, just that it has a downside that isn't often addressed.
Put in a few Freedom of Information Act requests for declassified NSA and CIA documents fromt he 60's. They'll help open your eyes a little.
Well, they would if GWB hadn't gutted the FOIA. You do know that his stated policy is to fight *all* FOIA requests and he passed an executive order to make it easier don't you?
Did M.U.L.E. on the C64 even support four human players?
Yes.
I had one friend with an atari, and the rest of my computer owning friends had comies.
You pick your key on the keyboard.
We played it on both, and I'm not aware of any difference.
So the guy who said it was better on the 64 was most likely wrong as well.
I wasn't aware that it was coded on the atari, but it explainns why the game is set on the planet Irata.
BTW has anyone been able to get 7 Cities of Gold to work an any of the emulators? I get to the start new game hit F3 or F7 screen and it dies.
I've tried it with 3 separate Mac emulators and 1 Linux one with identical results.
acon? yuk. factory farmed animal fed on ground up parts of its own species, forced to live in its own shit in cramped conditions
It's the bacon taste she likes. She wouldn't be caught dead eating actual bacon.
Any city without an adequate public transit system is, IMHO, not a "major" city. :)
If you are using this as part of your definition of major city, then it's not arguable since it's a definition, but by most other definitions, LA is a major city and public transportation there is crap.
Have you ever actually tried the bus or the train? San Diego has an excellent system.
I haven't ridden the bus in years here, but it took a loooong time to get anywhere.
I worked downtown for a while and took the trolley. It works well, but only if you are near to a station, and have a car to get to the station. It would add at least an hour to bus to the trolley station and back.
Driving is a hassle.
True
Ride the bus and read the paper, relax on the way to work tomorrow.
Unfortunately this won't work for me. I am self employed and do consulting for companies all over the county: downtown, Sorrento Valley, Carlsbad, etc.
Granted this is a somewhat unusual situation, but I spent a few weeks in London in September and was amazed by the public transportation system. This is even given that most Londoners seemed to be bitching about how it's gone way downhill recently.
At least with this there'd be someone on the other end paying attention to what you're saying!!
We need a new moderation: +1 sad.
It's equivalent to "funny if it weren't true"
I'm going back to my trusty tomato cans and a long line of sting soon, that is until the NSA figures out how to listen in on my conversations by using a laser to read the vibrations off the string.... dang it!
The frightening thing is I doubt it would take them long.
In major cities, you don't have to drive, either.
You need to modify this with "some"
In San Diego you *have* to drive or your life is practically worthless. Public transportation is crap and the city is huge geographically for its population.
No one can resist bacon.
Funny.
My girlfriend is a vegetarian (not for moral reasons, it just creeps her out) and she said that the number 1 downfall of vegetarians is bacon. She goes crazy for bacon flavored "crisps" ( these are potato chips to us Americans she's British) and we always have a plentiful supply of fake bacon bits in the house.
fucking easy, just add a parameter to the linked one. then you have 2 cases:
no param with referer from your case study = cutnpaste
param with refer from your case study = clicked.
OK, not bad.
You do have 2 cases, but not exactly the 2 you stated.
The parameter case works fine, but the no parameter is the *copy* and paste (sorry, pet peave, you don't cut anything from a web page) plus anyone else who got to the site without clicking a link.
This would be bad if you were trying to prove the point that it's more or less equal or biased toward people copying and pasting URLs.
If you wanted to bias the study the other way, you could put different parameters in the text. There would be a certain percentage who skipped copying that to avoid paying referrers and such.
Any ideas how to make it more valid as a survey method?
(wasn't it 3 who died in Apollo 10---for America---anyway?)
Apollo 1, Challenger was the first time Americans died after the thing took off.
The Apollo 1 deaths were during a test. They were caused by the explosivity of velcro in a pressurized oxygen environment as warned in advance by the company that made the capsule.
(All info in this post is from "From the Earth to The Moon" which I think freaking rocked, but if it's inaccurate, that's why.)
LOL
Screw the AC flaming you, I never heard that one and it had me rolling.
then I realized, when the plane comes back down from being so high, and suddenly hits all the air from the friction
Yeah, this is definately an issue. Flying high is easy with respect to friction, but the re entry could be a bitch.
Eh? I know a lot of people with wi-fi setups. Not one of them is a non-tech person. Wi-fi is still so new that only the techies get into it.
I have one friend who has wifi in his house he is quite technically astute and at the same time (believe it or not) a salesman; the best in his company.
He got into it after it was installed in his office which is full of salespeople. Their one IT guy is a complete fucktard by all accounts. I have heard accounts from at least 7 people who work or worked there and it's a small office.
Not to dispute your story, which is your experience, but there are many other experiences out there.
My personal favorite is the "Modem Blaster" absolute junk.
Oops. I first saw one of these today, when I installed (ok plugged it into the serial port and loaded the driver) it for a local business. They bought it not me, but what's wrong with it?
I was a "techie" in the Microsoft world and heaven knows Linux was a complete change for me. I couldn't figure out how to move a directory for weeks after switching! :)
No offense, but if you couldn't figure out how to move a directory in Linux for weeks after switching from Windows, then you were not a "techie" in Windows.
This implies that you were not aware of the nearly identical command line tools in Windows to do the same thing. If you only know how to use the GUI in Windows then you are *not* a techie.
MSNBC is consistently hard on Microsoft:
I disagree. They are consistently on par with every other news source on Microsoft.
Also, they *very* rarely have links to any site other than Microsoft. They mention Sun, Netscape etc, but without links to their sites. They then say things less than positive about MS, but with their site linked, generally to a page of MS propaganda about whatever the latest bad thing MS did so you can see their spin, but not the spin from the victim of their latest misdeed. Sure you can copy and paste, but it is an effective tool to subtly mislead.
Actually, that would be an interesting study. Something like, have a server serve two pages each to 50% of the requests. One with links and one with plain text URLs. See what the difference is in followers. It seems tough to do though since you don't have the referrer to go by.
Any ideas anyone?
Oops, my bad.
11 books, the last of which was really 2 books in one.
Never mind.
reading all twelve books in sequence,
Where can I find the other 2 books? All available evidence indicates that there are only 10.
The Tarzan series has 24.
they'll put brendan frasier in as Deja Thoris
:-(
God that would be awful.
Seriously, who do you think would make a good cast for this?
Someone who can actually fence would be needed for John Carter, but it seems unlikely
These are my favorite books after The Iliad.
So you're saying the fact that there are several religions based on this supposed mythical person is not evidence in and of itself?
Indeed I am. I think you actually agree with me, unless you think that Zeus, Quetzlcoatl, Baal, and thousands of other beings around which religions are based actually existed.
For more info check out http://members.aol.com/FLJOSEPHUS/home.htm
I will check this out. It was my understanding that there was zero mention of him in Roman records.
Whoever modded you as flamebait is an ass. I asked a question politely and you answered in the same manner. I got troll *and* insightful both of which are wrong. Interesting at best, but just plain nothing would have been most accurate in my opinion.
Take care.
christ was born 2000 years ago,
I think you mean, "There are legends which speak of a person called christ who was born 2000 years ago".
Unless you can provide some evidence for his existence? No, the bible doesn't count.
An (assumed) American telling us how to speak English! Ha ha!
Correct assumption. I have been speaking English for as long as you assuming that we're the same age so your point is?
It's 'some lego', not 'legos' because it's not 'a lego', it's 'a lego brick'.
My point is that "some lego" sounds stupid.
The proper way to say it would be "Some Lego brand building bricks". This is ungainly hence you simplify this.
The vast majority of people simplify this further to legos. Does the Lego company make anything besides legos? No. Hence there is no ambiguity.
I'm making cookies using (some) 'flour', not 'flours'. Jeez.
Of course. A mass of ground wheat is called flour. Where's the problem?
Lego is the plural of Lego. Lego is the company. If you must add an 's', use "Lego bricks." The bastardization "Legos" grates on any true fans nerves. Please don't use it.
This well may be grammatically correct, but it sounds dumb to me. What you're saying doesn't sound dumb, but, "I'm playing with Lego" sounds dumb when there are more than one of them. The vast majority of English speakers agree, hence the repeated use of it this way. I'm generally all for correct grammar, but there are times when the correct way is just wrong. This is such a case.
For the (hopefully) last time:
Nope, it won't be, for the reasons given above.
Please try not to let it get to you.