Calling all Indo-Europeans one race is a very recent phenomenom
Fine, but I didn't live in the 19th century but I do live in the 21st. "Irish" isn't a race, whether or not it was considered one a hundred fifty years ago.
A quote from Blazing Saddles just jumped to mind: "Ok, we'll take the niggers and the chinks but not the Irish!
A lost sale is not a cost. You could just as easily say that Microsoft is costing Red Hat money by selling server OSes. That would be as ludicrous.
I imagine that the local bands selling their CDs for five bucks apiece is costing the RIAA labels tons of money too. Know ahet? I consider it a GOOD thing.
I also consider it a GOOD thing that free software "costs" Microsoft money. Because, you know, I hate their software, I hate their business methods, and frankly I don't care too much for Gates and Ballmer.
Your bad is my good. Costing you? Well GOOD! Well done, FOSS! Here's to you kind sirs!
I was in Utapao, which was close to Bong Chong (Wikipedia spells it "Ban Chiang". Theit calandar year as written on pirate tapes bought in Bong Chong sis sic thousand something.
I never researched the history (with the exeeption to a single wiki search today), but I did talk with the region's natives. They dis NOT like the Chinese AT ALL.
The belief that China wanted to take over Thailand is likely to be propaganda on the Thailand side.
Very likely, but that's what the average Thail believed when I was there (it was decades ago)
tension between residents of Chinese descent and original native
You won't find very many if any Thais claimimg Chinese descent. It would be like a white American in 1930 claiming African descent.
The old Chinese dynasties regarded everybody as barbarian and wanted them to pay tribute, but I don't think that should be considered as attempts to take over?
If the Mexicans or Canadians wanted to tax the US I would consider that they were trying to take over.
On a side note, even the Southern China like GuangDong was considered barbaric until only a few centuries ago.
I consider the whole world to be barbaric. Civilized compared to 500 years ago, barbaric compared to 500 years in the future.
True but iummaterial; I was tasked for not saying AIDS made the world more daangerous and it was suggeste dthat my motication was my alleged hatred of minorities. But AIDS has not made the world more dangerous.
You are correct, however. All three are largely (although not entirely) self-inflicted.
But you don't really illustrate the point - the OP was talking about scientists, and you illustrated the point with a story about a journalist and an environmental activist
"The OP was talking about Christian preachers, and you illustrated the point with a story about a journalist and Jerry Fallwall!
I think if everyone stopped using animal products tomorrow they'd find something else to bitch about and some other aspect of your life to attempt to control. Busybodys are like that.
Nah, they're just stupid fucking busybodies who can't stand to see anybody enjoying themselves.
They're like the anti-smoking zealots. They got smoking banned in bars here in Illinois, despite the fact that before the ban usually when I was in a bar I was the only one not smoking. You have these damned busybodies who don't even drink going into bars to catch someone with a lit cigarette, to nmake sur ethey go out in the cold rain to smoke.
It's disgusting, but you have to remember most people aren't like that.
You say "we" are contented and satiated, YOU may be but I work for a living. Don't blame me, blame the rich people who are exploiting me.
I'm an animal lover. And the better they taste the more I love 'em! Yum!
-mcgrew
PS: I saw "The Queers" live in Cincinnatti a couple years ago with hmy daughter Patty, got a Queers t-shirrt there. My favorite Queers song is Stupid Fucking Vegans. Fuck PETA and the horse they rode in on. Then eat the damned horse!
Nice way to fuck up a perfectly good joke by not being able to spell "bored". The humor is lost when it takes a second to try and figure out WTF you meant.
There's one or two people here with the sig "oh look, my tax dollars at work coming to arrest me!"
Should now read "oh look, my tax dollars at work coming to ogle me!"
There's no limit to the liberty they'll take from you or the indignities they will subject to to in the name of security. But it isn't your security they fear, it's their cushy jobs that the terrorists threaten. And the domestic terrorists putting you through this rank bullshit have no remorse at all. In fact, they may possibly believe their own bullshit.
Someone else has that Heinlein quote about the four boxes, it is especcially germaine here, too.
I think Bob's beer may be somewhat tenuously relarted to this. There is the "quantum beer effect" whare if it is known that there is beer in the fridge, the beer will for some strange reason disappear. Especially if Tami or Amy are around.
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Calling all Indo-Europeans one race is a very recent phenomenom
Fine, but I didn't live in the 19th century but I do live in the 21st. "Irish" isn't a race, whether or not it was considered one a hundred fifty years ago.
A quote from Blazing Saddles just jumped to mind: "Ok, we'll take the niggers and the chinks but not the Irish!
I know Mike, you don't. Your mail is safe from Mike, and if it wasn't safe from his co-workers he'd tell me.
It would surely be better than Asimov's yeast steaks!
I'm an illiterate vampire, you can kill me by putting a steak through my heart! Even if they can fix that with a stent these days...
A lost sale is not a cost. You could just as easily say that Microsoft is costing Red Hat money by selling server OSes. That would be as ludicrous.
I imagine that the local bands selling their CDs for five bucks apiece is costing the RIAA labels tons of money too. Know ahet? I consider it a GOOD thing.
I also consider it a GOOD thing that free software "costs" Microsoft money. Because, you know, I hate their software, I hate their business methods, and frankly I don't care too much for Gates and Ballmer.
Your bad is my good. Costing you? Well GOOD! Well done, FOSS! Here's to you kind sirs!
I was in Utapao, which was close to Bong Chong (Wikipedia spells it "Ban Chiang". Theit calandar year as written on pirate tapes bought in Bong Chong sis sic thousand something.
I never researched the history (with the exeeption to a single wiki search today), but I did talk with the region's natives. They dis NOT like the Chinese AT ALL.
It was a joke, and it must really have sucked because nobody seemed to have gotten it. Higgs="god particle"
Tough room
The belief that China wanted to take over Thailand is likely to be propaganda on the Thailand side.
Very likely, but that's what the average Thail believed when I was there (it was decades ago)
tension between residents of Chinese descent and original native
You won't find very many if any Thais claimimg Chinese descent. It would be like a white American in 1930 claiming African descent.
The old Chinese dynasties regarded everybody as barbarian and wanted them to pay tribute, but I don't think that should be considered as attempts to take over?
If the Mexicans or Canadians wanted to tax the US I would consider that they were trying to take over.
On a side note, even the Southern China like GuangDong was considered barbaric until only a few centuries ago.
I consider the whole world to be barbaric. Civilized compared to 500 years ago, barbaric compared to 500 years in the future.
To the mods "WOOSH!
To quote Foghorn Leghorn, "It's a joke, son. Don't ya get it?"
How can you not get that simple joke and call yourselves nerds? Jesus, folks, itt isn't rocket science. It isn't even subatomic particle physics!
The Higgs bosun is called "the god particle". I even linked the fucking Wikipedia article in case there were morons with mod points.
True but iummaterial; I was tasked for not saying AIDS made the world more daangerous and it was suggeste dthat my motication was my alleged hatred of minorities. But AIDS has not made the world more dangerous.
You are correct, however. All three are largely (although not entirely) self-inflicted.
One was offensive, one defensive. The anti-sweden troll was a troll, trolling for bites (and he got one) while the anti-us comment was a bite.
But you don't really illustrate the point - the OP was talking about scientists, and you illustrated the point with a story about a journalist and an environmental activist
"The OP was talking about Christian preachers, and you illustrated the point with a story about a journalist and Jerry Fallwall!
I don't think it'll satisfy the vegans.
I think if everyone stopped using animal products tomorrow they'd find something else to bitch about and some other aspect of your life to attempt to control. Busybodys are like that.
Yesterday was international marijuana enjoyment day. It's not soylent, but it's tasty and green!
Nah, they're just stupid fucking busybodies who can't stand to see anybody enjoying themselves.
They're like the anti-smoking zealots. They got smoking banned in bars here in Illinois, despite the fact that before the ban usually when I was in a bar I was the only one not smoking. You have these damned busybodies who don't even drink going into bars to catch someone with a lit cigarette, to nmake sur ethey go out in the cold rain to smoke.
It's disgusting, but you have to remember most people aren't like that.
You say "we" are contented and satiated, YOU may be but I work for a living. Don't blame me, blame the rich people who are exploiting me.
THEY don't want to eat it, they want ME to eat it. Guess what? They're wasting their time.
like PETA, but I couldn't eat a whole one.
Unhealthy, not much protein or iron. You're better off with veal.
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the animal from the Restaraunt at teh End of the Universe yet.
I thought it was called SPAM
I'm an animal lover. And the better they taste the more I love 'em! Yum!
-mcgrew
PS: I saw "The Queers" live in Cincinnatti a couple years ago with hmy daughter Patty, got a Queers t-shirrt there. My favorite Queers song is Stupid Fucking Vegans. Fuck PETA and the horse they rode in on. Then eat the damned horse!
If I fly, can I just fly naked? I'd rather the fucking perverts in our cowardly governments look than touch.
Would you be OK with getting a pat-down or a scan to buy something at the store? Then why is everybody OK with this crap at an airport?
Nice way to fuck up a perfectly good joke by not being able to spell "bored". The humor is lost when it takes a second to try and figure out WTF you meant.
There's one or two people here with the sig "oh look, my tax dollars at work coming to arrest me!"
Should now read "oh look, my tax dollars at work coming to ogle me!"
There's no limit to the liberty they'll take from you or the indignities they will subject to to in the name of security. But it isn't your security they fear, it's their cushy jobs that the terrorists threaten. And the domestic terrorists putting you through this rank bullshit have no remorse at all. In fact, they may possibly believe their own bullshit.
Someone else has that Heinlein quote about the four boxes, it is especcially germaine here, too.
"God only knows where it will go," says one Nobel Laureate.
They found the Higgs boson?
He should have been a Senator in the pocket of the Pharmaceutical Lobbyists. He could have had more money and nobody would have blinked an eye.
;)
Dude, you have to stop reading my journals, it's affecting your comment posting!
-mcgrew
I think Bob's beer may be somewhat tenuously relarted to this. There is the "quantum beer effect" whare if it is known that there is beer in the fridge, the beer will for some strange reason disappear. Especially if Tami or Amy are around.
-mcgrew
No, it isn't. Come on out from behind that Klan sheet, mr anonymous coward, and discuss it lkike a human being instead of the troll you appear to be.
Fucking pathetic.
Where are the FBI RICO investigators when you need them?
Not in Sweden!