Comment Total protonic reversal? (Score 1) 135
I thought crossing the streams was bad?
I thought crossing the streams was bad?
But if they disbanded they wouldn't be able to keep serving their true constituency so ably.
I was amused by how HBO's Rome series handled the possible origin and ultimate fate of Caesarion.
Because the Mexicans were so delighted to cede Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California to the U.S. in the 1840's? Besides, the phrase "manifest destiny" dates from that era, and it certainly indicates imperial ambition.
They still fly the flag of Byzantium at Mount Athos, so for that and other reasons they might have a better claim on being an ember of the Roman polity.
Eliminating subsidies for agricorps would help restore some balance on that. There's no good reason to continue meat and dairy subsidies.
What naysayers forget is that with Wikipedia's model, if it can be vandalized by anyone it can also be corrected by anyone. You don't have to eliminate vandals to develop massive amounts of accurate content this way, you just have to have the constructive participants be more dedicated than the disruptive ones.
“Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.” --- Mark Twain
“If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse.” – Henry Ford
As flawed as we are, it's probably a good thing that we won't survive long enough to leave our solar system and populate the cosmos. We don't deserve it. We're just too *dumb* as a species.
How is anyone supposed to take a person like this seriously?
China has the US by the balls via debt
"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem." -- J. Paul Getty
If that means their own codes of behavior, and those codes don't involve violence or property crime against others, yes, why not?
Very well, but that raises the question why all that land has to be public, especially when it's been okay for it to be used for decades by someone in particular.
Maybe he did mean that, but I responded to what he actually said. It's not like "society" and "country" are the same thing or are spelled similarly, or anything like that.
The lesson of Nevada is that there are self entitled people who don't realize that they belong to a country.
You're right, we crazy anarchists don't think people belong to a country. In fact, we're so bonkers we think that the country should belong to the people.
I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.