First there was the world. Then there was the new world which included north and south America. Then Europeans started trying to classify countries in Africa and Asia and came up with the term "third world". As a former British colony Belize is definitely New World.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. The term originated during the Cold War.
1st world = "free world" (Western industrial democracies)
2nd world = Soviet bloc
3rd world = nonaligned nations
Of course, there's no more Soviet bloc, but the term "third world" remains with us.
Sounds like the thing to do if your notion of a "vacation" includes "being on the receiving end of a multi-million $$ lawsuit and possible criminal charges".
What about the relatively skinny, opinionated, fairly well informed, linux-fanboi, somewhat social slashdot reader stereotype who lives in an apartment that's above ground and sleeps with a real live woman who's not his mother (and not yours, either)?
Now, why IE, as it supports -radius-border, doesn't create an alias for -WebKit-radius-border that makes a call to its W3C compliant -radius-border implementation ?
Because it is part neither of the spec nor of the -ms IE namespace?
The IE folks (quite understandably) do not want to go there, and you should not want them to.
Maybe there is an intelligent creator, maybe not. But if there is, Christianity, Judaism, or Islam have nothing to do with such a being; they are simply a collection of common philosophical ideas plagiarized from other religions, superstitions, and a lot of fraud and cultism.
Thank you for voicing so well and so precisely my own objections to the Abrahamic religions.
If you're alluding to Hitler and/or Stalin and/or Mao and/or Pol Pot, the deaths of the people they had killed had absolutely nothing to do with their religion (or lack thereof). Those people were killed because they got in the way, or made convenient examples, or both.
Using your logic, we can just as easily say that Christianity is evil. After all, Vlad the Impaler was a devout Christian, wasn't he?
The FBI campaign against so called "radicals" on california university campuses made heros and legends out of the mundane, and wasted FBI resources, destroyed the credbility of the federal governement, and ultimately let the real communists get the bomb...
...the fuck? The USSR tested its first nuke in 1949.
When I stayed there in '06, it was 21 baht for lunch at the Chicken Noodle Lady's cart (next to the Carre-Four Building on Sukhumvit Soi 77 in BKK), 22 baht if you wanted a bottled water with it.
Why do people even use SMS anymore? In the age of smartphones it's completely unnecessary. With apps like Kakaotalk, Touch, Whatsapp, and others, it's like bitching that the price of butter churner handles has skyrocketed.
Because SMS works without internet access, dimwit.
And because some of us have plans which include a healthy number of free text messages, whereas using any of the apps the OP talks about when you're away from a wifi connection can easily spell "big mobile data charges".
There's also the fact... wait for it... that each of the apps the OP mentions works only if the intended recipient of your message also has that app.
So I guess the first order of business is to send an SMS to your buddy telling him to go download Kaokaotalk... and to hope that he doesn't text you back with but d00d i use teh skype.
(NB: For purposes of discussion only, we have conveniently overlooked the additional fact that text chat using a touchscreen sucks donkey balls.)
When I visited Barcelona, I found that some folks would respond to my Spanish with Catalan, or even English. Nobody appeared offended, however. (People there were generally pretty nice, I thought.)
In any case, signs in Catalan are dead easy to decode if you read Spanish, and if you speak Spanish reasonably well, you should also be able to get the gist of spoken Catalan. (And no, I am not claiming Catalan is merely a dialect or anything like that. I've had similar experiences with the local languages in Portugal and Italy.)
It's also possibly worth mentioning that Chinese nationals require a visa to visit HK (while many folks who aren't, don't), and that you must clear PRC and HK Customs whenever crossing between the two territories.
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Please refresh my memory--What has all this to do exactly with McAfee, Belize, or that bloke who spontaneously grew a third eye socket...?
First there was the world. Then there was the new world which included north and south America. Then Europeans started trying to classify countries in Africa and Asia and came up with the term "third world". As a former British colony Belize is definitely New World.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. The term originated during the Cold War.
1st world = "free world" (Western industrial democracies)
2nd world = Soviet bloc
3rd world = nonaligned nations
Of course, there's no more Soviet bloc, but the term "third world" remains with us.
The best revenge is living well.
Sounds like the thing to do if your notion of a "vacation" includes "being on the receiving end of a multi-million $$ lawsuit and possible criminal charges".
What about the relatively skinny, opinionated, fairly well informed, linux-fanboi, somewhat social slashdot reader stereotype who lives in an apartment that's above ground and sleeps with a real live woman who's not his mother (and not yours, either)?
Now, why IE, as it supports -radius-border, doesn't create an alias for -WebKit-radius-border that makes a call to its W3C compliant -radius-border implementation ?
Because it is part neither of the spec nor of the -ms IE namespace?
The IE folks (quite understandably) do not want to go there, and you should not want them to.
ProTip: Perl and PHP don't run in the browser. They didn't ten years ago, either.
It is unfair to the children to expect religion to be transmitted from parent to child like a genetic flaw.
That's pretty much the same comparison that I like to draw, yeah.
Being religious is not a prerequisite for having or performing acts of compassion, nor for recognising human beings as such.
Maybe there is an intelligent creator, maybe not. But if there is, Christianity, Judaism, or Islam have nothing to do with such a being; they are simply a collection of common philosophical ideas plagiarized from other religions, superstitions, and a lot of fraud and cultism.
Thank you for voicing so well and so precisely my own objections to the Abrahamic religions.
Then for the rest of your statement, Galatians 3:28.
Okay...
Stop being so ignorant and start thinking and studying for yourself, we will all be better off.
Whuh...?
That is the fucking funniest thing I've read all morning. Thanks for the laugh.
If you're alluding to Hitler and/or Stalin and/or Mao and/or Pol Pot, the deaths of the people they had killed had absolutely nothing to do with their religion (or lack thereof). Those people were killed because they got in the way, or made convenient examples, or both.
Using your logic, we can just as easily say that Christianity is evil. After all, Vlad the Impaler was a devout Christian, wasn't he?
The FBI campaign against so called "radicals" on california university campuses made heros and legends out of the mundane, and wasted FBI resources, destroyed the credbility of the federal governement, and ultimately let the real communists get the bomb...
...the fuck? The USSR tested its first nuke in 1949.
Ahh, some perspective.
My kingdom for a mod point.
Germany and Russia during WW2 are the only other countries that could compare to the true decimation of the population during the US Civil War.
Genghis Khan and Timurlane would like to have a word with you.
It was more like 10 cheap meals for this farang (who's not afraid of eating something that doesn't look like a hamburger).
McDonald's?
1. Give me a break--I didn't go to Thailand to eat at fucking Macca's, matey.
2. McDonald's in Thailand and China charge Western prices. Heaps more expensive than the local cuisine in either country.
When I stayed there in '06, it was 21 baht for lunch at the Chicken Noodle Lady's cart (next to the Carre-Four Building on Sukhumvit Soi 77 in BKK), 22 baht if you wanted a bottled water with it.
Actually, I live in Sweden.
But even if I did live in Thailand, exactly who would you be to judge me or my motives without knowing a damned thing about them?
Go fuck yourself, and the presumptuousness you rode in on.
Why do people even use SMS anymore? In the age of smartphones it's completely unnecessary. With apps like Kakaotalk, Touch, Whatsapp, and others, it's like bitching that the price of butter churner handles has skyrocketed.
Because SMS works without internet access, dimwit.
And because some of us have plans which include a healthy number of free text messages, whereas using any of the apps the OP talks about when you're away from a wifi connection can easily spell "big mobile data charges".
There's also the fact... wait for it... that each of the apps the OP mentions works only if the intended recipient of your message also has that app.
So I guess the first order of business is to send an SMS to your buddy telling him to go download Kaokaotalk... and to hope that he doesn't text you back with but d00d i use teh skype.
(NB: For purposes of discussion only, we have conveniently overlooked the additional fact that text chat using a touchscreen sucks donkey balls.)
This is a rhetorical question, in case you are too stupid to figure that out.
No, it's not. It's a leading question, actually.
When I visited Barcelona, I found that some folks would respond to my Spanish with Catalan, or even English. Nobody appeared offended, however. (People there were generally pretty nice, I thought.)
In any case, signs in Catalan are dead easy to decode if you read Spanish, and if you speak Spanish reasonably well, you should also be able to get the gist of spoken Catalan. (And no, I am not claiming Catalan is merely a dialect or anything like that. I've had similar experiences with the local languages in Portugal and Italy.)
There's effectively no difference. They're all 3 based on the same central (and false) premise, and differ only in the window dressing.
It was more like 10 cheap meals for this farang (who's not afraid of eating something that doesn't look like a hamburger).
It's also possibly worth mentioning that Chinese nationals require a visa to visit HK (while many folks who aren't, don't), and that you must clear PRC and HK Customs whenever crossing between the two territories.
Following up an unsubstantiated allegation with a possible truth does not make the initial allegation true.
In case that's too complex for you, here's the Sesame Street version: [citation needed].
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