- White House advisor Van Jones was a member of the communist party.
...and I was a member of the Republican party decades ago, but that doesn't make me a Republican.
- Bin Laden IS a terrorist who admitted he organized the 9/11 attacks
No argument there, but he calls plenty of others terrorists, including select members of congress that don't agree with his agenda.
- Press Secretary Anita Dunn said, "My favorite philosopher is Mao Tse-dung" who of course was a communist.
My favorite philosopher was Plato, but that doesn't make me Platonic.
- In Dreams of My Father, president Obama said his father was a communist and he agreed with that philosophy.
The entire thing is taken out of context. A context which is not communist in nature, but rather anti-imperialist, as Kenya was under British imperial rule, and that was what his father fought against. Go read the book yourself and you'll see.
Maybe because Beck and Bachmann call people Nazis, Communists, Terrorists, and UnAmerican with no substantive evidence to support such claims, while Franken doesn't do anything of the sort..
I'm glad the reply and submit buttons don't take 10 minutes to open the text window, and another 5 to actually submit a comment anymore. That alone was my biggest problem with v2.
Then why is their prime minister saying that the debt is a problem, along with nearly everyone else around the world? Usually when a country thinks it's a necessary part of running the economy to have a bit of debt, they don't say "There is a huge risk of this thing fucking us in the future, and we need to do something about it now.".
Japan is also just about totally fucked with debt right now. I mean, they have a higher GDP than most other countries (2nd or 3rd in the world, depending how you count it), but they owe an insane amount compared to GDP (190%, IIRC), and their government has continually warned of a potential impending economic collapse if the situation isn't fixed.
There's also no mention of a drone that can be sent out instead of an F-22 to provide radar information for the F-22s, as if nobody thought "Hey, F-22 can share data between planes, but might be screwed in certain situations where they need information about the locations of enemy craft. Let's send in a drone to get that information so we don't send a pilot into a deathtrap."
Not really. It could've been explained with something other than the whole Jesus thing, like another layer of the Matrix. But they took the shitty way out on that one.
a DSL modem stuffed in a cardboard box, wrapped in a Wal-Mart bag, sitting outside in what will be below-zero (F) temps, on top of a bank of ten natural gas meters in some of the driest air of the year.
Obvious fire hazard, given the proximity to a starter (cardboard and plastic), flammable material (gas) and potential for sparking from anything leaking through the Walmart bag.
They also left it plugged into an exposed exterior power outlet above a snowbank
They broke their end of the contract, in that electrical work done by a contractor has to be done to code. They didn't do the work to code, so they have to make good on it. They won't remove their equipment, either. Why would they forsake another customer that they're already, absolutely in the red on, when a small investment could easily mean that they'll move into profitability rather than be hit with an overall loss.
I would even wager that when a higher tier customer support rep is threatened with a lawsuit over faulty electrical work, they would just send a guy out to redo it.
I'm pretty sure you could bring Qwest up on a lawsuit for installing the stuff improperly in the first place, and sue for a proper installation plus damages for the time there's no service.
The shooter wasn't a radical liberal, as you call him. He had no known political affiliation, and had copies of both Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto, which implies he was extremely confused about politics, if anything.
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Except for the Mormons and native Americans that live there, the desert is empty.
No, it means "an instrument used with the aim of causing harm or death".
As it turns out, those tunnels in Vietnam were both supply lines and bases for said guerrillas.
I got a friend request from a guy who had a note on his gamer card that said Tommy - Code of Conduct just a couple days ago.
It's most definitely visible to everyone on Live.
No evidence?
- White House advisor Van Jones was a member of the communist party.
...and I was a member of the Republican party decades ago, but that doesn't make me a Republican.
- Bin Laden IS a terrorist who admitted he organized the 9/11 attacks
No argument there, but he calls plenty of others terrorists, including select members of congress that don't agree with his agenda.
- Press Secretary Anita Dunn said, "My favorite philosopher is Mao Tse-dung" who of course was a communist.
My favorite philosopher was Plato, but that doesn't make me Platonic.
- In Dreams of My Father, president Obama said his father was a communist and he agreed with that philosophy.
The entire thing is taken out of context. A context which is not communist in nature, but rather anti-imperialist, as Kenya was under British imperial rule, and that was what his father fought against. Go read the book yourself and you'll see.
Maybe because Beck and Bachmann call people Nazis, Communists, Terrorists, and UnAmerican with no substantive evidence to support such claims, while Franken doesn't do anything of the sort..
It also doesn't take forever to open the reply window and hit preview/submit anymore. FF 3.6.13, Core 2 Quad Q9550, 4GB RAM.
I'm glad the reply and submit buttons don't take 10 minutes to open the text window, and another 5 to actually submit a comment anymore. That alone was my biggest problem with v2.
I'm using FireFox 3.6.13 on Win7 x64, with a CPU rate of under 4% constantly.
Too bad it doesn't fit the absolute technical definition, despite being largely indistinguishable from a monarchy in reality.
This is essentially the same deal as Tunisia. Corrupt monarchy, rising food prices, etc.
Then why is their prime minister saying that the debt is a problem, along with nearly everyone else around the world? Usually when a country thinks it's a necessary part of running the economy to have a bit of debt, they don't say "There is a huge risk of this thing fucking us in the future, and we need to do something about it now.".
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There isn't "very very very low social mobility" here in the US, and anyone who claims that has no clue what the US is really like.
Live here before you talk shit about us.
Japan is also just about totally fucked with debt right now. I mean, they have a higher GDP than most other countries (2nd or 3rd in the world, depending how you count it), but they owe an insane amount compared to GDP (190%, IIRC), and their government has continually warned of a potential impending economic collapse if the situation isn't fixed.
Just look at where advances have come from, and it's easy to see that defense is by far the best bang for our buck in terms of research.
That's really where most of the cutting edge R&D is being, and has been, done for quite a long time now.
You can't use it to accelerate past them if you don't have your own propulsion source (research), which China outright lacks right now.
Spending on defense research spurs private innovation in the mid to long term. Where do you think most of the physical stuff we used started out?
There's also no mention of a drone that can be sent out instead of an F-22 to provide radar information for the F-22s, as if nobody thought "Hey, F-22 can share data between planes, but might be screwed in certain situations where they need information about the locations of enemy craft. Let's send in a drone to get that information so we don't send a pilot into a deathtrap."
If you're stealing tech, you can't develop faster than the people you're stealing from.
Not really. It could've been explained with something other than the whole Jesus thing, like another layer of the Matrix. But they took the shitty way out on that one.
RTFS:
a DSL modem stuffed in a cardboard box, wrapped in a Wal-Mart bag, sitting outside in what will be below-zero (F) temps, on top of a bank of ten natural gas meters in some of the driest air of the year.
Obvious fire hazard, given the proximity to a starter (cardboard and plastic), flammable material (gas) and potential for sparking from anything leaking through the Walmart bag.
They also left it plugged into an exposed exterior power outlet above a snowbank
Another obvious fire hazard.
They broke their end of the contract, in that electrical work done by a contractor has to be done to code. They didn't do the work to code, so they have to make good on it. They won't remove their equipment, either. Why would they forsake another customer that they're already, absolutely in the red on, when a small investment could easily mean that they'll move into profitability rather than be hit with an overall loss.
I would even wager that when a higher tier customer support rep is threatened with a lawsuit over faulty electrical work, they would just send a guy out to redo it.
I'm pretty sure you could bring Qwest up on a lawsuit for installing the stuff improperly in the first place, and sue for a proper installation plus damages for the time there's no service.
The shooter wasn't a radical liberal, as you call him. He had no known political affiliation, and had copies of both Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto, which implies he was extremely confused about politics, if anything.