I have never met one Chinese-born person at University who believed that the Communist Party should step down from power or criticized the government in any fundamental way. Not one. (Chinese-Americans, of course, are all over the spectrum when it comes to the Communist party and their right to rule.)

It's actually quite surprising because otherwise these are very smart people. However, if you ask about human rights violations, censoring, corruption, pollution, etc, they all just revert back to the party line. The ability of humans to have function despite cognitive dissonance is amazing.

This always makes me uneasy, because these are the Westernized elite, who in some cases have lived in America for a number of years. I can't imagine what the typical uneducated peasant must think.

What? Compared to what country is the US population homogenous? Japan? Sweden? Botswana?

Are you sure the last time you visited wasn't in the 1960s?

My AVG anti-virus caught this, but I would have thought the NY Times would have had better security.

Yeah, because all hunters know how to make their own ammunition and grow their own food.

I agree.

The fact is that the US military today could annihilate any army on that was on the planet in World War I. A mere 90 years of technological innovation separates the two. I doubt only 90 years of technological innovation separates us from any aliens we would meet. Now imagine a few thousand years of technological innovation! We'd have about as much chance of fending of aliens as the Australian Aborigines had fending off the British.

Persecuted?

From Webster's dictionary:

" to cause to suffer because of belief"

I'm not sure how lack of Wikipedia access is comparable to being thrown in a death camp, but perhaps someone with more perspective can tell me.

A computer related example from Alternatehistory.com....

http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=49668

There is a fairly dedicated internet community, both on Usenet and websites, dedicated to Alternate History and some writers have written involved timelines that span centuries usually based on simple what ifs? I've even seen some timelines that only involve computers.

It's a fun hobby for history nerds.

$100/day plus expenses? Who is he, Jim Rockford?

Nice post.

Since it is apparent you cannot read, I will spell it out for you:

"No STATE shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility."

Nowhere does it mention the Federal Government. It's talking about the individual states. Therefore, the Federal Government can print fiat money.

This is the exact reason the Founding Fathers implemented the Electoral College. Voters can't be bothered to inform themselves.

There are quite a few states without open container laws. Ditto for fireworks.

As for building your home without deed restrictions, that will depend on the place you are living. I imagine that rural Mississippi has many less requirements than say, San Francisco.

Actually, Mississippi meets all of your requirements. No open container law, no prohibition of fireworks, and few deed restrictions. In addition, you can vote, and your property can't be taken away without compensation.

Also, in Mississippi, you can do other stuff that you cannot in China, like own an handgun. Or vote.

I found the accents in Far Cry to be the best part of the game. Not only, did some of the characters speak in different languages (I could only understand the Afrikaans, but there might be other languages too), but the accents are accurate as well. For instance, I could tell Voorhees was a South African, because he had a South African accent, and used South African slang. Very often, North American companies totally butcher South African accents and it was a refreshing change.

I think my chemistry teacher would have taken off points for that one.