When my knees or hips eventually wear out, they give me new ones and bam, I magically get to walk for another 20-30 years.
If you will be in for this, especially if it concerns your knees; you will then be haunted by that comment.
Because, you will, most probably, not walk without pain for another 20-30 years.
Sincercely yours, probably being a few decades older than you.
The school has placed a temporary ban on play at recess or lunch that involves physical contact between kindergarten students. This is in response to a number of injuries that have happened with this particular class.
And they couldn't handle these incidents in a different manner? For example, without punishing the whole group for the behavior of a few? Without installing the knowledge "bullies win" in the kids' minds?
You should better go, and select a different schools for your kids. These so-called teachers are obviously unprofessional and should be avoided. (I'm a pedagogue, FWIW. This is a textbook example how teachers should *not* handle incidents with students. Especially not at kindergarten age where social interactions are to be learned.)
It's even cited with references on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Examples_of_industrial_espionage
Did the terrorists actually win this war on terror?
Yes, for sure, in the USA they did. It was a full-fledged, all-around victory, without any substantial opposition. That the terrorist's victory also helped companies like Halliburton to enormous profits was not inconvenient, either. Haven't you left your mother's basement in the last 13 years?
Some European companies really don't care. But some do. That's why there was always a healthy mistrust in competetive European companies concerning their crucial data out of house, and why cloud computing has a slower uptake here than in the US. (Their unimportant data, they could care less about, even if it's personal data and against the EU privacy laws. That's life.)
If somebody could tell me how one can avoid that nag dialog, I'd be happy.
None of your links reported about such behavior.
If you live in Oakland, maybe you should start to make an appointment with a shrink. It may help you.
But then, maybe not. You US Americans are seriously mad nowadays, looking from the other side of the pond.
> Really ? How well do they cellar? 20 years seems a bit long. Most pinot noir just doesn't age well.
Actually, I meant his white burgundy grand cru (Im Sonnenschein). Some years wines from him age extremely well; last year I was at one anniversary tasting where he opened bottles from the last 25 years, and there were astonishing wines among them. 15 year old Sekt, still fresh; I couldn't believe it.
His pinot noir age quite well as well; in some years it must age. E.g., currently his 2005 Im Sonnenschein GG is still too closed to be drinkable in good consciousness. Together with Bernhard Huber, Paul Fürst (where Rebholz son currently is an apprentice), Fritz Becker, and a few others, they show what red burgundy from Germany can be like.
> I've got some Kreydenweiss too but it's a bit overpriced.
Full agreement. And you can't rely that every year ages as well as the 89. E.g., 2002 oxidated very early. And there are the years in 2004+ where Antoine (Marc's son) took over, and was still learning the trade. I haven't been in Andlau for the last 5 years or so; but have heard reports that Antoine starts to be better again. A wine from him that's not-as-long-aging but good and not so expensive is the Clos Val d'Eleon.
Marc and Emmanuelle moved from Andlau to Nimes, btw, and make quite good red wines, for early drinking, just 3-5 years in the cellar. If you're in that area, be sure to visit them; Marc is an enthusiastic guy who can and will talk for hours about his wines, the grapes, and process he uses.
> Many good dry Rieslings will keep 20 years I think.
Yes, they do. (That was the point I was trying to make.) Of course, one has to be careful and check when they are about to oxidate -- and then it's a matter of taste if you let them a bit, or if you rather drink them...
Here's to you, and a have a good glass,
My 81 Chateau d'Yquems is still considered young.
You don't need lots of tanin to have well aging wines.
That 95% of the world's population feels as if they are powerless against such a tiny minority speaks more about the pathetic majority than the minority.
Do you really think that? That's saddening. I'm glad that, effectively, I don't belong to this "pathetic majority" -- they are scraping to get enough water and enough food, shelter against warlords (in some countries, against US drones targeting cvilians, effectively the same). I, living in a G8 state, have the luxury that 80% of the world's population doesn't have. I can answer drivel like yours.
You might not understand it; but, life's not a Hollywood movie where the good guys win. No, the NSA wins. Those who take our liberty and won't give it back. Hoover is back, now named Alexander; and he's more intelligent and thus more evil. The USA is spending vast amount of its money for its military, its spionage-intel, and associated companies, making it practically impossible for "the pathetic fawning of the rest of the world's governments" (your words) to do anything against it.
Our only hope is, you'll destroy your own society with it. You gave up already and surrendered to terrorists. You complied with them and made your country a fascist police & surveillance state -- which it wasn't before. You made their lies come true. Your society spends insane amounts of money on things that only very few will profit from. The rest of your society goes downhill, and they're voting to go downhill.
Gibbon's "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" is a blueprint what's happening to you. Sadly, it seems to need too long before a sane civil movement appears.
"Fuck anything that moves" was ever only the lifestyle of very few people; and those lived more in the late 60s than in the early 60s. (I'm old enough to remember this. Are you, too?) And it's not the point that I wanted to make, when I call out US Americans to be prudish.
It's not the governments fault that the biggest commitment you've ever made to a "relationship" is deciding to pay by the minute or by the hour.
"You've ever made"? As in, me? I live with my partner since 32 years and will do so for the rest of our live. We don't need a state certification to be sure of that. Whom are you talking of? Get back to your mother's basement, and off my lawn.
There's a new thing (for you) involved, that's named "money". The U.S. spends more money on military than all other states of this planet combined.
That's the reason, the "US can do whatever it feels like doing in other sovereign nations." Well, quite simply -- it can, we don't. Power speaks. And you don't even seem to know this elemantary truth.
The real pity is: You, US citizens, once were the spearhead of civil liberties. Now, you don't know this even more, as just observed. Soon, you will create concentration camps (like in the 50s for the Japanese, now for Arab/Islamic minorities) and will hamstring political dissidents (like with McCarthy).
You destroyed the acceptence of US politics world-wide to an extend, where, if it's not intentional -- it's criminal. I still wonder who earns from this development. If there's one thing the (now-defunct, owing to your political development) Groklaw got right, it's: Follow the money, that's where the power is.
You may lump as all together as Nazis; but we fight Nazis here, in Germany. We have them, but we do something against them. We could do more, but many citizens -- and that's the majority of people -- work hard to make these tendencies a non-issue for federal politics.
Whereas, you -- well, you have a government that doesn't bring an action against its officials who lied before congress, doesn't bring an action against its sworn officers who have knowingly decided to breach the law. Instead, it prosecutes the people who defend your constitution. You allowed the government to comandeer private resources, an action that is constitutionally only allowed in war time. And worse -- you don't care about it. Your press calls to suppress freedom of press and there's no outcry about it.
You voted them in, Bush and Obama, and you knew what you were doing.
You, the U.S.A., returns to behaviour of the 50s -- concentration camps like the Japanese citizens, or like Guantanamo, witch hunts like McCarthy, power without checks-and-balances. You think J. Edgar Hoover was bad, and it got over when he died? Well, Keith Alexander is worse. He should be the American darkest nightdream -- but he isn't. He is beyond the law now and can do like he wish, he is the living proove that you are neither willing to care for your republic nor for your democracy. And you will not get rid of his heritage, because he's much more intelligent than Hoover ever was.
There was a time when the U.S.A. was revered for their spirit, for their strive for justice and freedom. Well, these days are long over. People like Keith Alexander and others destroyed this spirit, and you -- the people of the U.S.A. -- didn't fight it.
Shame on you.
The 70s, and to some degree the 80s, knew that marriage is just a contract with the state and has nothing to do with any personal relationship.
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
