Last time I checked the oceans have been notoriously bad at protecting the Americas, Austrailia, Africa, and Asia, and failed to do so for hundreds of years.
How you got modded insightful is beyond me. Funny, maybe, but insightful only if the person has never ever ever heard a single thing about the history of any continent but Europe.
Last time someone tried to blow up an airplane was not in Europe (despite the guy flew first here with the bomb and he didn't try)
So only Americans are on planes between the US and Europe? Did a bunch of people jump off when they hit the Atlantic so it would somehow make a difference that he did it over Detroit and not over Amsterdam?
Is that an insult? Nazis may be IMHO inherently wrong in their worldviews, but at least in US it's nothing close to a crime to be one. That's a guilt ridden German/Austian thing.
The EU is still fairly corrupt, it's just not Pro-US corruption so it can't automatically be judged as evil. They're still perfectly happy to export all of the major polluting industries to claim a lower carbon footprint and screw with grain markets in Africa because it's prestigious to buy EU import rice instead of the local grown varieties. The whole "every nation is equal" thing hasn't really been recognized for governmental bidding but old prejudices die hard. That's not to say that the EU doesn't have its upsides, I just have a natural inclination against any organization that needs to put up signs next to all of their projects about just how much you need them.
US business also includes Apple, Google, "Hollywood", and a dozen other things much of the world would be rather unhappy to be without. The US is profoundly shit much of the time, it's also pretty incredible fairly often. Take the good with the bad like anything else.
In the US "prepay" is synonymous with "I have bad credit so real companies wont deal with me" or "I don't use my phone". The prices for prepaid phone service are frequently twice per minute what it would cost under contract.
This has always been my problem with some Atlus games. Never ending one way doors? Monsters that can instant KO your entire party? A game isn't fun if it doesn't beat me every once in a while. but it's not fun reloading all the time either. Designed to frustrate.
I think you missed the part where "bullying" stopped being a stereotype involving lunch money and kids with three first names and came to be applied to almost any situation in which two kids of repeated conflict among children. Johnny insists on making a honking noise in class, you don't invite him to your birthday party because he's an annoying little shit. Congrats, you just socially excluded Johnny and sent him down a lifetime path of rejection and depression.
It was more likely the same reason a UN mission didn't kidnap the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean Bertrand Aristide, into exile in 2004.
Strange, I would have complained that the US put him back into power in the first place given the circumstance under which he left the first time. Given his treatment of the population of Haiti I think it would speak well of our moral character if we had kidnapped him.
Trying to say that the only action taken by the UN is an arrest warrant is simple dishonesty. They have charted a course of action, but they lack the funding to carry it out.
How much funding does it take to ask Turkey or Egypt, who have both had opportunities, to arrest Omar al-Bashir? It might not stop the violence but I can't imagine removing the head of state who refuses peacekeeping efforts could hurt things.
The United States and Europe standing by while Darfur rages is more of an indictment of our moral character than anything else. They'll watch it the same way they watched Rwanda and Somalia and East Timor and Cambodia.
You preach the Western powers not sticking their noses in other nations' business and complain when they apparently sit idle ignoring that Sudan itself as well as the Arab League and the African Union have actively and publicly resisted efforts to end the violence. I guess multinational efforts work both ways. Sudan, by the way is rich in petroleum and precious metals, not to shoot your theory to shit or anything. Australia, New Zealand, and Portugal all had peacekeepers in East Timor. China on the other hand is the primary weapons source of Sudan as well as the political and military support of the of the Khmer Rouge.
If you want to talk about dishonesty why not mention that the government of Somalia was overthrown by Ethiopian armed troops and that the U.S. and later UN made extensive efforts to stabilize the security and humanitarian situation for year until the Somalis began attacking aid workers, a situation we see repeated in Sudan. Ask yourself why after years of futile efforts in Africa trying to get waring factions fueled by nothing but resentment to stop fighting each other at great costs to themselves that Europe and America wouldn't be enthusiastic about embroiling themselves in another civil war in Rwanda. I think they should have anyway and I can't imagine being a Belgian peacekeeper and not becoming directly involved but I lean more towards the spirit of their mission than the law.
No one said there would be conquering. There would be a fight, and in fact, the rhetoric just got inched up since we made a 6 billion dollar arms deal with Taiwan, I'm guessing in retribution for the cyber attacks.
You said invasion.1 : an act of invading; especially: incursion of an army for conquest or plunder. I said they don't have the means, not for an invasion, not for a blockade, and not for a currency war. Furthermore that no one does because the game would be a loss for everyone long before it could be won. That aside, the aid to Taiwan has nothing to do with Chinese cyberattacks. The U.S. has been providing military and economic aid to Taiwan since its inception to the tune of $18.3 billion between 1950-2006. In fact portions of this money, less than half of what they requested, were allocated in 2001 under George W. Bush.
They do. We are no longer the majority importer of Chinese goods. They are now the largest exporter in the world. What manufacturing sector can we replace theirs with?
We never were. Hong Kong was the leading market beginning in the 1960s when trade with the US was still banned. When they rejoined the PRC the EU who had been conducting heavy trade in both directions took their place. You may also wish to note that both the EU and the US still have larger manufacturing sectors than China,
The UN and World Court do exist when they agree with the United States. Isn't that peculiar.
No, it makes perfect sense when you have bodies that require their supporters to bear the weight of every decision they make that are frequently run by a bloated and corrupt bureaucracy. There's a reason that the 17,000 U.S. troops in Haiti weren't donated to the U.N. mission there just like there's a reason why the only action taken against Sudan has been an arrest warrant in Europe. It's unfortunate that the UN security council is a reminder to so many other countries about their comparative lack of power.
So, the trade agreements around the world are a figment of my imagination? Trade embargoes don't exist, multi-party talks to persuade foreign governments exist entirely in my imagination. It is fascinating how insane I am.
Iran. Cuba. Sudan. China, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Germany. You're not insane, those things certainly do exists, but you may wish to note they've been notoriously unreliable at actually accomplishing anything.
And you'd base this on what fortune telling ability? I'm glad simple assertions are gaining traction here on slashdot. By this time next year we can all be Brothers in Christ.
I would base it on logistical difficulty, the current tactical impossibility, and that I imagine both sides being armed with nuclear weapons makes the possibility of ever conquering either one pretty unlikely.
I'd say the US will have hung itself with it's own rope. All China will have to do is claim that the United States has the capacity to conduct terrorism, and then if it has the means, China can setup a blockade, wage a currency war, or invade under the precedent we set a few years ago. Since we've destroyed the power of the UN and the World Court, we won't even have symbolic legal recourse.
1) They don't
2) Why would a one party dictatorship growing rich on the exploitation of their people want to attack the people most responsible for the never ending stream of money that has made their economic success possible?
I have nothing against international law, but to ignore the immense limitation of it specifically with implementation and enforcement is just being unrealistic. It doesn't require you to be a warmonger to realize that the system as it stands now would be ineffective at preventing war between the US and China if that were the course they chose. Acting like a 7th grader on crack when someone points out that taking the moral high ground is sometimes less important than taking the real high ground is uncalled for.
The problem I have with many European drivers is the natural result of a culture that isn't absolutely dependent on driving, namely that although it's expensive and difficult for them to get a license very few of them ever use that license more than once a year if at all making them comparatively inexperienced drivers in my mind. Granted, fewer cars on the road and more defensive attitudes towards driving in general make the whole thing safer over all I imagine, but I was a little concerned getting back on the road after having not driven for a year when my time before that was spent driving professionally. I can't imagine what it's like for someone who hasn't driven in two years and the last experience was moving furniture in a rental for a day.
Already happening. There are a couple of manufacturers (Dodge, Mitsubishi, Subaru) that have already started offering models with CVT as the only option for automatics.
I'm mourning already for the GP who might, in his own eyes, become a giant pussy soon enough.
Then why do all the other countries insist on watching American shoes and movies even though they are frequently in a language they barely understand and conveying topics they frequently can't relate to. Seems like an awful lot of suffering to keep their vastly superior programming off the air, and expensive to boot. I know America is the giant cultural cancer of the world in a lot of people's minds, but apparently the world finds cancer delicious and can't help but themselves with it.
I have the discussion with my German girlfriend (gasp, sorry, "guy I know") when she derides American cultural imperialism and then sits down to watch the Simpsons or True Blood. If you wish America would stop infecting the world stop buying the DVDs!
You may want to watch the advertising. Automatic transmissions are slowly but surely slipping into European manufacturers. Right now it's a "luxury feature" yes, but that's exactly how it started in the US as well. As automatics continue to advance in fuel economy and decrease in cost (both up front and through reduced maintenance) we might see a time soon enough when manuals are a minority.
You're eating with the wrong Americans then, I've never been out with anyone who's ordered beef beyond medium rare. The problem with steak tartare is that ground meet is highly prone to parasites and other contamination, and from what I read from the heath reports involving restaurant food poisoning that hasn't changed.
If I had a microwave that had internet access like a PC, storage like a PC, and was designed to be used many situations similar to situations in which one would use a PC, then yes I would complain if I couldn't play around with it a bit.
I would settle for getting my microwave not to beep three times when it's done.
I think his point is that he wants to be able to run whatever he wants on his hardware, yours is that it should be a fucking ordeal simply, I assume, for the sake of frustrating people. So although you disagree about what the point is I think we can both agree that there's no point in either of you talking to each other.
The 1911, Beretta 92, and the Luger P08 (just to name perhaps the three most notable autoloading military sidearms of the century) all had external safeties.
I always keep my finger off the trigger unless I'm preparing to engage a threat.
You've mastered the toughest rule for most people to apply consistently, that the most effective safety any gun has is the operator. If you don't pull the trigger the gun wont fire, it's as simple as that. I have nothing against external safeties. but they're no substitute for responsible handling.
True story, however Weapons == Bad is no more correct as responsible owners around the world have shown with their ability to enjoy them without harming anybody. The problem of failed states are educational, cultural, economical. Even without access to firearms people have shown themselves quite capable of violence as a system of governance.
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Last time I checked the oceans have been notoriously bad at protecting the Americas, Austrailia, Africa, and Asia, and failed to do so for hundreds of years.
How you got modded insightful is beyond me. Funny, maybe, but insightful only if the person has never ever ever heard a single thing about the history of any continent but Europe.
Last time someone tried to blow up an airplane was not in Europe (despite the guy flew first here with the bomb and he didn't try)
So only Americans are on planes between the US and Europe? Did a bunch of people jump off when they hit the Atlantic so it would somehow make a difference that he did it over Detroit and not over Amsterdam?
well, less nazis than the US (per capita)
Is that an insult? Nazis may be IMHO inherently wrong in their worldviews, but at least in US it's nothing close to a crime to be one. That's a guilt ridden German/Austian thing.
The EU is still fairly corrupt, it's just not Pro-US corruption so it can't automatically be judged as evil. They're still perfectly happy to export all of the major polluting industries to claim a lower carbon footprint and screw with grain markets in Africa because it's prestigious to buy EU import rice instead of the local grown varieties. The whole "every nation is equal" thing hasn't really been recognized for governmental bidding but old prejudices die hard. That's not to say that the EU doesn't have its upsides, I just have a natural inclination against any organization that needs to put up signs next to all of their projects about just how much you need them.
US business also includes Apple, Google, "Hollywood", and a dozen other things much of the world would be rather unhappy to be without. The US is profoundly shit much of the time, it's also pretty incredible fairly often. Take the good with the bad like anything else.
In the US "prepay" is synonymous with "I have bad credit so real companies wont deal with me" or "I don't use my phone". The prices for prepaid phone service are frequently twice per minute what it would cost under contract.
This has always been my problem with some Atlus games. Never ending one way doors? Monsters that can instant KO your entire party? A game isn't fun if it doesn't beat me every once in a while. but it's not fun reloading all the time either. Designed to frustrate.
I think you missed the part where "bullying" stopped being a stereotype involving lunch money and kids with three first names and came to be applied to almost any situation in which two kids of repeated conflict among children. Johnny insists on making a honking noise in class, you don't invite him to your birthday party because he's an annoying little shit. Congrats, you just socially excluded Johnny and sent him down a lifetime path of rejection and depression.
It was more likely the same reason a UN mission didn't kidnap the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean Bertrand Aristide, into exile in 2004.
Strange, I would have complained that the US put him back into power in the first place given the circumstance under which he left the first time. Given his treatment of the population of Haiti I think it would speak well of our moral character if we had kidnapped him.
Trying to say that the only action taken by the UN is an arrest warrant is simple dishonesty. They have charted a course of action, but they lack the funding to carry it out.
How much funding does it take to ask Turkey or Egypt, who have both had opportunities, to arrest Omar al-Bashir? It might not stop the violence but I can't imagine removing the head of state who refuses peacekeeping efforts could hurt things.
The United States and Europe standing by while Darfur rages is more of an indictment of our moral character than anything else. They'll watch it the same way they watched Rwanda and Somalia and East Timor and Cambodia.
You preach the Western powers not sticking their noses in other nations' business and complain when they apparently sit idle ignoring that Sudan itself as well as the Arab League and the African Union have actively and publicly resisted efforts to end the violence. I guess multinational efforts work both ways. Sudan, by the way is rich in petroleum and precious metals, not to shoot your theory to shit or anything. Australia, New Zealand, and Portugal all had peacekeepers in East Timor. China on the other hand is the primary weapons source of Sudan as well as the political and military support of the of the Khmer Rouge.
If you want to talk about dishonesty why not mention that the government of Somalia was overthrown by Ethiopian armed troops and that the U.S. and later UN made extensive efforts to stabilize the security and humanitarian situation for year until the Somalis began attacking aid workers, a situation we see repeated in Sudan. Ask yourself why after years of futile efforts in Africa trying to get waring factions fueled by nothing but resentment to stop fighting each other at great costs to themselves that Europe and America wouldn't be enthusiastic about embroiling themselves in another civil war in Rwanda. I think they should have anyway and I can't imagine being a Belgian peacekeeper and not becoming directly involved but I lean more towards the spirit of their mission than the law.
No one said there would be conquering. There would be a fight, and in fact, the rhetoric just got inched up since we made a 6 billion dollar arms deal with Taiwan, I'm guessing in retribution for the cyber attacks.
You said invasion.1 : an act of invading; especially: incursion of an army for conquest or plunder. I said they don't have the means, not for an invasion, not for a blockade, and not for a currency war. Furthermore that no one does because the game would be a loss for everyone long before it could be won. That aside, the aid to Taiwan has nothing to do with Chinese cyberattacks. The U.S. has been providing military and economic aid to Taiwan since its inception to the tune of $18.3 billion between 1950-2006. In fact portions of this money, less than half of what they requested, were allocated in 2001 under George W. Bush.
They do. We are no longer the majority importer of Chinese goods. They are now the largest exporter in the world. What manufacturing sector can we replace theirs with?
We never were. Hong Kong was the leading market beginning in the 1960s when trade with the US was still banned. When they rejoined the PRC the EU who had been conducting heavy trade in both directions took their place. You may also wish to note that both the EU and the US still have larger manufacturing sectors than China,
Don't know exactly. Reading again it seems Ford, BMW, Honda, and Nissan all have CVT models of various systems as well.
Only the Nissan specifically mentions having a torque converter.
The UN and World Court do exist when they agree with the United States. Isn't that peculiar.
No, it makes perfect sense when you have bodies that require their supporters to bear the weight of every decision they make that are frequently run by a bloated and corrupt bureaucracy. There's a reason that the 17,000 U.S. troops in Haiti weren't donated to the U.N. mission there just like there's a reason why the only action taken against Sudan has been an arrest warrant in Europe. It's unfortunate that the UN security council is a reminder to so many other countries about their comparative lack of power.
So, the trade agreements around the world are a figment of my imagination? Trade embargoes don't exist, multi-party talks to persuade foreign governments exist entirely in my imagination. It is fascinating how insane I am.
Iran. Cuba. Sudan. China, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Germany. You're not insane, those things certainly do exists, but you may wish to note they've been notoriously unreliable at actually accomplishing anything.
And you'd base this on what fortune telling ability? I'm glad simple assertions are gaining traction here on slashdot. By this time next year we can all be Brothers in Christ.
I would base it on logistical difficulty, the current tactical impossibility, and that I imagine both sides being armed with nuclear weapons makes the possibility of ever conquering either one pretty unlikely.
I'd say the US will have hung itself with it's own rope. All China will have to do is claim that the United States has the capacity to conduct terrorism, and then if it has the means, China can setup a blockade, wage a currency war, or invade under the precedent we set a few years ago. Since we've destroyed the power of the UN and the World Court, we won't even have symbolic legal recourse.
1) They don't
2) Why would a one party dictatorship growing rich on the exploitation of their people want to attack the people most responsible for the never ending stream of money that has made their economic success possible?
I have nothing against international law, but to ignore the immense limitation of it specifically with implementation and enforcement is just being unrealistic. It doesn't require you to be a warmonger to realize that the system as it stands now would be ineffective at preventing war between the US and China if that were the course they chose. Acting like a 7th grader on crack when someone points out that taking the moral high ground is sometimes less important than taking the real high ground is uncalled for.
The problem I have with many European drivers is the natural result of a culture that isn't absolutely dependent on driving, namely that although it's expensive and difficult for them to get a license very few of them ever use that license more than once a year if at all making them comparatively inexperienced drivers in my mind. Granted, fewer cars on the road and more defensive attitudes towards driving in general make the whole thing safer over all I imagine, but I was a little concerned getting back on the road after having not driven for a year when my time before that was spent driving professionally. I can't imagine what it's like for someone who hasn't driven in two years and the last experience was moving furniture in a rental for a day.
Already happening. There are a couple of manufacturers (Dodge, Mitsubishi, Subaru) that have already started offering models with CVT as the only option for automatics.
I'm mourning already for the GP who might, in his own eyes, become a giant pussy soon enough.
Then why do all the other countries insist on watching American shoes and movies even though they are frequently in a language they barely understand and conveying topics they frequently can't relate to. Seems like an awful lot of suffering to keep their vastly superior programming off the air, and expensive to boot. I know America is the giant cultural cancer of the world in a lot of people's minds, but apparently the world finds cancer delicious and can't help but themselves with it.
I have the discussion with my German girlfriend (gasp, sorry, "guy I know") when she derides American cultural imperialism and then sits down to watch the Simpsons or True Blood. If you wish America would stop infecting the world stop buying the DVDs!
You may want to watch the advertising. Automatic transmissions are slowly but surely slipping into European manufacturers. Right now it's a "luxury feature" yes, but that's exactly how it started in the US as well. As automatics continue to advance in fuel economy and decrease in cost (both up front and through reduced maintenance) we might see a time soon enough when manuals are a minority.
You're eating with the wrong Americans then, I've never been out with anyone who's ordered beef beyond medium rare. The problem with steak tartare is that ground meet is highly prone to parasites and other contamination, and from what I read from the heath reports involving restaurant food poisoning that hasn't changed.
If I had a microwave that had internet access like a PC, storage like a PC, and was designed to be used many situations similar to situations in which one would use a PC, then yes I would complain if I couldn't play around with it a bit.
I would settle for getting my microwave not to beep three times when it's done.
Impartial third party here.
I think his point is that he wants to be able to run whatever he wants on his hardware, yours is that it should be a fucking ordeal simply, I assume, for the sake of frustrating people. So although you disagree about what the point is I think we can both agree that there's no point in either of you talking to each other.
An OEM copy of Win7 from Newegg is less than $100.
Please tell me where you can get a computer capable of running it for something near that.
If you're going to say WinTel you really should say MacTel as well. At least one of those companies still makes PCs with non-Intel processors.
The 1911, Beretta 92, and the Luger P08 (just to name perhaps the three most notable autoloading military sidearms of the century) all had external safeties.
I always keep my finger off the trigger unless I'm preparing to engage a threat.
You've mastered the toughest rule for most people to apply consistently, that the most effective safety any gun has is the operator. If you don't pull the trigger the gun wont fire, it's as simple as that. I have nothing against external safeties. but they're no substitute for responsible handling.
Weapons == Good is not a general truth
True story, however Weapons == Bad is no more correct as responsible owners around the world have shown with their ability to enjoy them without harming anybody. The problem of failed states are educational, cultural, economical. Even without access to firearms people have shown themselves quite capable of violence as a system of governance.
Mine must be defective then. I've fired thousands of rounds and still haven't killed a single thing.
Maybe I should ask for a refund?