Oh, I understand, you are probably thinking of surströmming. In that case, I agree completely, it is just plain repulsive.
Well, I think most countries have some food that is considered repulsive by others. Swedes have surströmming. Chinese have preserved duck eggs. Koreans have kim-chi (which I love, but I have heard others denigrate it severely). Scots have haggis. Americans have McDonalds.
The Comanche was kind of the Apache's little brother, designed from much the same standpoint (same sort of epoxy honeycomb and titanium bathtub design) but smaller, quicker (but not faster, the top speed is considerably lower) and WAY the hell stealthier
Ah! So that's how they got all those black helicopters around my house!
The nice thing about Windows all drivers built-in/easily available so that it just works as opposed to Linux where you have to write your own drivers in some cases to get by?" Apparently, this is not true anymore
This is exactly the point I was going to make. The only real thing keeping common users from going to Linux is that it can be a pain in the ass for non-tech savvy people. But, with Vista like this, why should *anyone*, even AOL users, use Micro$haft anymore?
Only now, instead of throwing something together to meet an arbitrary deadline (year 2000), they have spent years of dedicated, careful effort to make something that completely sucks!
Go ahead, mod me down, fuckers. Your mother is a Java programmer.
Oh yeah! Well, your dad thinks Windows 3.1 is an operating system! And your mother likes coding in BASIC! And I'm not even going to begin with what you and your sister do every night in the basement with that Amiga!
It did not make sense for us to have more power against drug cartels than terrorist cells
Neither of these powers make any sense, nor are they Constitutional. The first Bush pushed the "War on Drugs" which has whittled away our rights, and the second Bush pushed the "War on Terror" which has evicerated our rights. Has noone noticed that both of the big excuses for eliminating civil rights have been pushed by Bushes, a family well-known for and even convicted of helping the Nazis?
Here is a short blurb about how DESI works. It is something worth checking out and then searching Google for since it is the key to how this device works.
He was using the phrase "those bastions of christendom" ironically. This should have been obvious, especially since he followed that with "that the American Taliban likes to claim". Actually, not all of them were Deists, either. Some were Deists, some were Christians, some were Unitarians, some were Bokononists. The point is that your religion is your own business, and not a matter for the State to decide, nor should the State support one religion (or denomination) over another.
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One stands for danger; the other for opportunity
Actually, this is not at all true . Plus, you are thinking of two characters, not two brush strokes. About the only single brush stroke that has any meaning by itself is the character for the number one.
You forgot the most important reason: Iran is run by a religious fundamentalist who thinks he talks directly to God and wants to help bring about the Apocolypse. Oh, wait a minute...
It is likely that orbital variations do affect climate over tens of thousands of years; see the Milankovitch cycles. That said, it's fairly irrelevant to global warming, other than the fact that global warming might not be as much of an issue if we were in an ice age part of the cycle.
The Milankovitch cycles are like Sun Spots in that the difference differential affect caused by both of them is several orders of magnitude less than what is caused by the rapid increase in CO2 that we have been experiencing. But, count on the right wing nuts to bring out "Milankovitch cycles" on right-wing radio as soon as they can figure out how to pronounce it.
I like how its a red herring now. Yet it was the "consensus" of its age and I am quite sure naysayers will equally villified as they are today.
Global Cooling was not the consesus of its age. A few articles written by ignorant journalists in popular new magazines do not make a consensus. Or, perhaps you know of some actual peer-reviewed scientific journal articles that show that global cooling was the "consensus of its age"? If so, please enlighten us all here. I've heard that stupid line thrown out so many times, but all any of you wingnuts can point to is an old US News article about the possibility of a mini-Ice Age. Again, journalists don't generally understand what they are writing about when they write about scientific matters. Scientific study of global warming has been going on since at least the 1960's and the mechanics of global warming are well known. Try to learn some actual science rather than reposting tired old nonsense like this.
"Is this yet another sign of the typical media industry 'head in the sand, refuse to change' approach, or might we be seeing the early stages or some actual change?" I think it's a little of both. They'd LIKE to keep their head in the sand, but change cannot be stopped.
Actually, I think this is another reason (among many) to boycott the MAFIAA. On many occassions, they have been brought kicking and screaming into the next era of technology (radio, VHS and now internet). When they finally get there, they make obscene profits. So, we are all basically helping them to stay in control even after they have tried to kill all technological innovation that their addled minds view as a threat. I don't know why we are so good to them...
Environmentalists are happy to kill people by banning everything from pesticides to genetically engineered foods, no matter how badly starving countries need these things.
DDT and other pesticides have these little side effects like birth defects and increased cancer rates. The food shortages in most countries are based on political realities, such as horribly corrupt governments, and not on farming procedures. Plus, in the US, the government gives subsidies to farmers to *not* produce food since there would be too much on the market, thus driving down prices. Chemical pesticides and fertilizers, along with things like Bovine Growth Hormone, simply aren't needed for there to be an adequate food supply. A little good planning would go a lot farther than poisoning the Earth for the sake of the profits of corporations like Monsanto and Dow.
Environmentalism is an urban religion for liberal atheists, and so they justify their behavior as "right" or "just" and attack you as a heretic if you step outside the established biblical doctrine.
Now, really, you just sound like a fundie who is projecting onto others. It's the old "but they're just as crazy as we are, really!" gambit. Has it not occurred to you that maybe some people see what is so obviously going on with the environment and want to do something about it? Plus, all those poor starving people you pretend to care about won't be able to survive at all if the oceans are depleted, the water, air and soil are poisoned, and toxic chemicals are permeated throughout the entire food chain. Dealing with the political realities of the places with lots of starving people is how to solve most of the food shortage problem. Letting Monsanto get rich selling seeds for infertile plants is not.
Finally, I'm not an atheist and I'm not particularly urban (though I unfortunately live in a crowded city for the time being). In case you hadn't noticed, a lot of religious groups are getting into environmentalism. Actually, this has been going on for quite a long time, especially with deeply religious individuals in various environmental groups, but this sort of thing gets next to no coverage in the media. Nutballs like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell are considered the "Christians" even though they are nothing more than fringe lunatics who think they have a direct line to God.
What I do not enjoy, however, is his political commentary. The same can be said for Orson Scott Card. Why is it that authors, singers, actors, etc feel the need to get political?
I would say the same thing about Ray Bradbury. He seems wholly enamoured of George W Bush. But at least, unlike Crichton and Card, he tends to stick to his writing and not get openly political. Perhaps it is because his last name begins with a "B" and not a "C".
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Here is a short blurb about how DESI works. It is something worth checking out and then searching Google for since it is the key to how this device works.
He was using the phrase "those bastions of christendom" ironically. This should have been obvious, especially since he followed that with "that the American Taliban likes to claim". Actually, not all of them were Deists, either. Some were Deists, some were Christians, some were Unitarians, some were Bokononists. The point is that your religion is your own business, and not a matter for the State to decide, nor should the State support one religion (or denomination) over another.
You forgot the most important reason: Iran is run by a religious fundamentalist who thinks he talks directly to God and wants to help bring about the Apocolypse. Oh, wait a minute...
It will come about! It is the Will of Jordan! The Ship is all! Anyone who says otherwise will be fed into the Matter Converter.
Or, as Louis Pasteur said, "Chance favors the prepared mind."
Finally, I'm not an atheist and I'm not particularly urban (though I unfortunately live in a crowded city for the time being). In case you hadn't noticed, a lot of religious groups are getting into environmentalism. Actually, this has been going on for quite a long time, especially with deeply religious individuals in various environmental groups, but this sort of thing gets next to no coverage in the media. Nutballs like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell are considered the "Christians" even though they are nothing more than fringe lunatics who think they have a direct line to God.