but I have this funny feeling that we, as a planet, probabaly would have come up with something and not let them run out of O2.
You could have said "as a nation", but no, you had to include the 6 Billion people, 1/3 of which are living below poverty line to fund an effort to save 7 well fed astronauts.
This is one of those things where the government has to wake up, realize that the invisible hand isn't doing a goddamn thing to change these people's lives for the better (Nixon opened our markets and diplomats to China, and we're talking about them 40 years later the same way we were in the 60's), and take action.
Do you honestly believe this?
If anything, the fact this post got modded up to Score:4, Insightful proves there is tremendous racism in America. The author first denies racism in the 50s. (Does Martin Luther King, Malcolm X ring a bell) Then goes on to offend other cultures that values strong social connections. (I have been to Iran and I can tell you I am treated much warmer than I have been in the US) Lastly, the authors takes inferiority of browns and blacks as a given fact.
Ask your self, if a crown of IT nerds could mod this bullshit up to insightful. Is there no racism in IT hiring practices?
Trying to pick another fight with us?
If you want a promise for fighting piracy from the Chinese government you will get it. Not that it will do anything.
2) global warming is not a threat to nature! nature has dealt with catastrophic climated changes in the past and it will deal with them in the future. the threat of global warming is to us humans and the the status quo of nature, but there's no doubt in my mind that the ecosystems will adapt to a warming planet - as they have to countless ice ages, meteor hits, etc. although i would find it a shame to see ice bears going extinct due to human interference in world climate, we _can_ not take responsibility of _nature_ on this scale; what if a warmer climate brought forth an even more beautiful creature than the ice bear? wouldn't we make _that_ extinct by preventing global warming as well?
Yestoday it was the dinasours. Today it is the polar bears. Tomorrow it will be the humans. Regardless of the possibilities, naturn gets the last laugh while we do not.
I found it scarey not in that we can not explain these lights but we are starting to science as a religion to get answers. I believe findings such as these should stand up to more scruetny before being published.
Just one more minor complication to America's indisputed freedom superiority I will have to over look. Kind of like my toilet, it is sparkling clean when I avoid all the stains.
While software isn't the last thing Africans need, it is far from the first thing they need. What most african nation need right now is self determination. By that I mean a stable society to protect the people from harmful foriegn interest thereby forstering long term growth. What they do not need is being told what to do by a bunch of western nations which, as histroy has shown, have screwed them over again and again.
It is so typical to see/. members bicker over minor technical details of issues they have no grasp of.
Somehow I see this is going to be another China bashing article in which racist white man will discuss how the Chinese goverment is going to use linux to oppress the people.
As a third year engineering student from the friendly northern kingdom of Canada, his article has a great deal that I can relate to. My course load this semester doubled from last semester, which doubled from the semester before that. The TA's are every bit as unhelpful as first year. Mean while I am still paying twice the tuition fee of that of the arts and science students.
Having incentives being increasing misaligned against engineering, it leads me to wonder what sort of major character flaws do upper year undergrad engineering students have that prevent them from excelling in other areas of life.
As for me, I can only say that my ill placed respect for the profession of engineering during my high school year has lead me to a mistake I shall probably regret for the rest of my life.
More than the decade after the cold war, Americans are still talking about ideology supremacy. Russia is not spreading Communism, nor is China spreading Socialism with Chinese chrematistics. It is time for America to do the same.
The time when US could use economics as a weapon is gone. No country depend on US to get what they could not get anywhere else. As Zimbabwe has shown, Western sanctions only allowed India and China to move in and fill the gap.
The world is not created according to the American image. And it never will be. Cooperation is the only way of the future.
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It may not appear to you that the slashdot crowd is way out of touch with reality.
but I have this funny feeling that we, as a planet, probabaly would have come up with something and not let them run out of O2. You could have said "as a nation", but no, you had to include the 6 Billion people, 1/3 of which are living below poverty line to fund an effort to save 7 well fed astronauts.
This is one of those things where the government has to wake up, realize that the invisible hand isn't doing a goddamn thing to change these people's lives for the better (Nixon opened our markets and diplomats to China, and we're talking about them 40 years later the same way we were in the 60's), and take action. Do you honestly believe this?
If anything, the fact this post got modded up to Score:4, Insightful proves there is tremendous racism in America. The author first denies racism in the 50s. (Does Martin Luther King, Malcolm X ring a bell) Then goes on to offend other cultures that values strong social connections. (I have been to Iran and I can tell you I am treated much warmer than I have been in the US) Lastly, the authors takes inferiority of browns and blacks as a given fact. Ask your self, if a crown of IT nerds could mod this bullshit up to insightful. Is there no racism in IT hiring practices?
Trying to pick another fight with us? If you want a promise for fighting piracy from the Chinese government you will get it. Not that it will do anything.
Let me guess you perfer them to be starving to death while you are earning 8 bucks an hours doing the same work.
2) global warming is not a threat to nature! nature has dealt with catastrophic climated changes in the past and it will deal with them in the future. the threat of global warming is to us humans and the the status quo of nature, but there's no doubt in my mind that the ecosystems will adapt to a warming planet - as they have to countless ice ages, meteor hits, etc. although i would find it a shame to see ice bears going extinct due to human interference in world climate, we _can_ not take responsibility of _nature_ on this scale; what if a warmer climate brought forth an even more beautiful creature than the ice bear? wouldn't we make _that_ extinct by preventing global warming as well? Yestoday it was the dinasours. Today it is the polar bears. Tomorrow it will be the humans. Regardless of the possibilities, naturn gets the last laugh while we do not.
I found it scarey not in that we can not explain these lights but we are starting to science as a religion to get answers. I believe findings such as these should stand up to more scruetny before being published.
Just one more minor complication to America's indisputed freedom superiority I will have to over look. Kind of like my toilet, it is sparkling clean when I avoid all the stains.
Any time I am feeling cold, I just turn on my Pentium 4.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search =big+ass+mirror+on+mountain
Wast of money? It kept you employed did'nt it.
Now that the French are getting their own fusion reactor, the English is back in the nuclear game.
While software isn't the last thing Africans need, it is far from the first thing they need. What most african nation need right now is self determination. By that I mean a stable society to protect the people from harmful foriegn interest thereby forstering long term growth. What they do not need is being told what to do by a bunch of western nations which, as histroy has shown, have screwed them over again and again. It is so typical to see /. members bicker over minor technical details of issues they have no grasp of.
Remember the Japanese are experts at one way flight.
Somehow I see this is going to be another China bashing article in which racist white man will discuss how the Chinese goverment is going to use linux to oppress the people.
So has anyone figured out a way to convert porn to email?
I suppose Bush accedentally invaded Iraq.
Oh yeah, well...cockthirsty.
It is so great to see so many Americans take up the fight for global freedom and democracy through dictatorishp of the internet.
As a third year engineering student from the friendly northern kingdom of Canada, his article has a great deal that I can relate to. My course load this semester doubled from last semester, which doubled from the semester before that. The TA's are every bit as unhelpful as first year. Mean while I am still paying twice the tuition fee of that of the arts and science students. Having incentives being increasing misaligned against engineering, it leads me to wonder what sort of major character flaws do upper year undergrad engineering students have that prevent them from excelling in other areas of life. As for me, I can only say that my ill placed respect for the profession of engineering during my high school year has lead me to a mistake I shall probably regret for the rest of my life.
we could build a partial one about a few kilometers above see level and lunch space craft from there. It will reduce fuel consumption by some ammount.
I love fighting bots. Just hide behind a rock and they will get stuck.
More than the decade after the cold war, Americans are still talking about ideology supremacy. Russia is not spreading Communism, nor is China spreading Socialism with Chinese chrematistics. It is time for America to do the same.
The time when US could use economics as a weapon is gone. No country depend on US to get what they could not get anywhere else. As Zimbabwe has shown, Western sanctions only allowed India and China to move in and fill the gap.
The world is not created according to the American image. And it never will be. Cooperation is the only way of the future.