The only people in the US that will be able to see it live in Alaska - likely an extremely insignificant portion of the
On behalf of the Alaskans who are a part of the
If it makes you feel any better, our weather here in Anchorage will not likely permit viewing, either
Eight hours a day, five days a week was good enough for illiterate industrial workers doing manual labor when it was invented 150 years ago. I see no reason it shouldn't be a perfect fit for highly educated software engineers in 2010!!
Wait, you get to work with highly educated software engineers? Lucky
As to the guys being merciless killing machines, I doubt it. However, they are showing some (expected but disturbing) callous behavior.
Again, my issue is not that war should be pretty and full of sunshine and puppies, but that our leaders need to be honest with us, especially when asked directly. Fear of losing public support, as happened in Vietnam, is not a sufficient reason as far as I am concerned.
the value of U.S. manufacturing output was about $3.7 trillion (in 2008 dollars)
So, I feel that there may be some room to argue that America is not the same kind of manufacturing entity it once was. According to the numbers (which, admittedly, come from different reports and cannot be guaranteed to be the best for this comparison), the food processing industry drives about 84% of the manufacturing total in America. The biggest manufacturers in the food industry are Nestle and PepsiCo, not the Hoover (now a part of Techtronic Industries, in Hong Kong), Fridgidaire (now a part of Electrolux, which appears to be made mostly in Eastern Europe, though there still may be an Ohio factory), and other manufacturers that were synonymous with the "Made in America" quality of the 50's and 60's.
In fact, Indian farmers say Bhut paste can be used for everything from sauces to tear gas. And there in lies the military's interest.
The Indian military is interested in the many uses of Bhut paste? I
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