So very very cringe-worthy, it's like a freshman abusing the fuck out of a thesaurus while writing his very first college essay.

The only point I was making is that Japan did not attack Pearl Harbor out of the blue. It was a direct response to embargoes placed on them by the US.

And, yes, the US was entirely in the right in placing them. Cutting off the Japanese supply of oil would have crippled Japan's war effort. Which was the entire point of the embargo. Sensing their vulnerability, the Japanese decided to attack the US, in attempt to disable the pacific fleet, and secure their access to oil.

you do realize the US (justifiably) goaded them into pearl harbor right? Something about an oil embargo...

You have obviously never played Civilization. You can even goad Gandhi into dropping nukes on you if you spy on him sufficiently.

Go play and then get back to us.

in all seriousness, when national pride is insulted, the french are complete dicks. I could see them hosting asange and snowden and telling the US to get bent.

i think the EU would be quite happy to let Greece and Spain leave.

Remember, this is China, so it would need to be a blue UI; a pink UI would be aborted before they even started UX testing.

wish they'd make a router with 'epilepsy' mode, where it dims/disables all front lights. I mean short of the electrical tape option of course.

I cannot imagine the Japanese doing that. Did you really just mean "China", but didn't want to put too fine a point on it? :)

(North Korean scientific claims, such as the recent ebola/aids/whatever cure are so obviously silly that they don't merit serious consideration)

Look to countries that are deregulating their economy for economic collapse followed by massive civil unrest up to and including civil war. You silly dipshit. Unless you were born prior to 2008, you literally just fucking saw what happened when countries let big business run amok.

look man, if parent post wasn't at least partially true, you wouldn't have things like SF residents up in arms over companies like Genentech or Google using private busing. There is a very very clear differentiation between the haves and have not's. Kind of a bad comparison *now*, but prior to becoming the 'rust belt', the northern Midwest produced 'things', as well as a huge middle class across multiple industries.

Tricking people into clicking on ads, or electronically stalking them not only fails to produce wealth outside of shareholders, but it has a negative social value as well. (though that's arguably just an opinion.)

yes, sorry. mp3 players are called ipods generically. and that's a good thing for apple, no? (well it was, until mp3 players were usurped by iphones. :) )

On one hand, one of the goals of advertising is to put a brand out there, and have people keep it in mind. On the other, kleenex and xerox are so dominant in that regard, that the product category itself is referenced by the brand name.

That's just awful, I feel sorry for them. Notice you don't see apple complain that mp3's are now generically known as 'ipods'.

Where are my mod points? And why isn't there an option for "-5 Stupidly Naive and Autistic"?

Look at the problems space programs have had world over. Mission scrubbing bugs revolving around things as trivial as converting between metric and imperial. Mistakes made by teams comprised of literally some of the smartest people on the entire planet.

And you're naive enough to think we'd be able to do better than millions of years of trial and error evolution?

No thank you.

Odd, it won't return any results for 'monorail' and tells me to close the browser window.