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It is not interesting it is moronic. It is meant to provoke fear in people who are afraid of their own shadows and will go off the deep end.
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Not sure how far the crisis in Crimea will go - or how far Russia will go with the Ukraine. The other eastern European nations are quite concerned also about Russia.
The Middle east, of course, is standard fare.
And Iran is accusing the US of sabatoge. Not sure what might come of that. I don't think Israel strking Iran is off the table yet.
And China is making threatening noise in the east Pacific.
Anything left out?
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China appears to have learned the wrong thing while trying to emulate the U.S. success. Just as we have top executives who create business plans that have flashy and impressive numbers in the short run but turn into losses after the executive has moved on, China's culture encourages city-managers to encourage the building of theme cities that look good on paper and sound impressive but don't have that most important of things: residents and the businesses that would be providing services to them.
All the government officials want is to have project that makes them look productive so they are promoted out of the area. That there are no businesses to fill the shopping malls and no residents to lease the apartments or buy things from those businesses (if they existed) isn't something they are concerned with.
On top of that, they are ignoring the better practices that the U.S. has come up with to reduce pollution and environmental damage because the money to do so would reduce the amount of work that they are trying to impress people with.
The reason they have been able to do this without a complete meltdown is that they also have an immense amount of very cheap labor to generate cheap products for other nations to buy. They are slowly raising some of the public's quality-of-life but that isn't hard when, previously, those people were living with dirt floors and no running water.
China threatens to lower the quality-of-life for other nation's employees to continue with this. In other words, they have become the Walmart of the world job market.
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I voted for Obama because the other choices were either a warmonger in John McCain or a wall street ripoff in Romney. So if you really want to complain about Obama then maybe what you need to do is look at the idiots you run for President and you will understand that it was not the color of Obama skin but fighting for the middle class. But our resident rights think that all those wonderful CEO;s really love them and will always put their needs first. A corporation needs none of those damn regulations that protect people and the environment. Then wonder why Obama got elected.
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Liberals must understand by now that criticisms of Obama are legitimate, accurate and just, but they blindly defend him anyway because he's the first black president Any criticism from someone who calls the President a Brazil nut, is tainted with racism and cannot be considered legitimate, accurate or just. So you agree that the rest of our criticisms of Obama are legit, accurate and just? There may still be hope for you. Some of the criticism comes from a conservative place that sees a different way of solving the countries' problems. Those criticisms are legitimate because those people do not see things from a progressive point of view. |
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What is really sad is people believe celebrities and reality TV "stars" before their family doctor. These ignorant people deserve what they and their families get. Maybe we should tie Obamacare to "you don't get Medicaid if you didn't have vaccinations".
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Liberals must understand by now that criticisms of Obama are legitimate, accurate and just, but they blindly defend him anyway because he's the first black president Any criticism from someone who calls the President a Brazil nut, is tainted with racism and cannot be considered legitimate, accurate or just. |
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That chart is hardly a good representation of people who are underemployed. It only points out people who are working part time because they cannot obtain a full time job when the definition of underemployment not only encompasses that, but anyone in any job that is not being paid a wage/working a job that utilizes their full scope of skills and talents. A computer engineer of 15 years working full time as a grunt for the TSA still has a full time job with benefits but is horribly underemployed. Underemployment isnt strictly about hours. |
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I would go in 1815 and i would tell napoleon not to engage at Waterloo, or warn him that he had to either dispatch marshal Ney earlier in order to prevent the allied forces from meeting up or to get two parallel communication systems in place.
he would have won, it would have been interesting to see what a french superpower dominating Europe would have turned up.
More fun to watch him conquer the world. anyway he wouldn't listen if you told him not to invade Russia. but he may listen if you say "comandante we need to dispatch Marshal Ney sooner!" or "our communication channels are fragile, let's make sure we have backup couriers my Emperor" |
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It's really hard to say. China's expansion is, in a lot of ways, dependent on the US. Both as consumer of goods and as debtor. If the US declined in power, this wouldn't necessarily be a good thing for China.
Yes i agreed with you, that China's economic growth is helped by the US but certainly not dependent on it, you could say China needed the initial FDI to kick start their own investments but China is today the world's largest investor by dollar terms. |
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There are many such ways to do this; have a good credit record, not default on loans, have high interest rates, have a strong legal system, have a good business environment, have high quality workers, good infrastructure, political stability, high exports, strong financial system, etc.
Now many of those are long term sort of things, but short term, interest rates, balance of trade changes, political stability, etc.
These are ways to strengthen a country's currency. But i have one question in mind that if one country's currency is more than another country then also its economy will be stronger? |
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Of curiosity,my wife told me that she read on a forum about "internet money" and she insisted that we should buy some too...was something new to me,i was suspicious,so i started researching about it,I found this forum....and it convinced me,i invested in bitcoin,now i believe in bitcoin!
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The most important thing in my life are my family and friends. Without them I'd have nothing. They make me laugh, they make me cry, but most importantly they make me happy and I believe that is what makes life definitely worthwhile, for all of us.
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I would really like to know the best way to strengthen a country's currency.
Increase in it's import or export?
Please share some good ideas.
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hmmm that is indeed a good observation. But sometimes one bad apple can indeed spoil the whole crate.
You have a good attitude towards people who are different than you and that is really good. In fact, I think like that too. lol but sometimes we have to understand that there are a lot of other people don't think like that and are quick to jump to conclusions. And sometimes people who are hateful can do the most damage such as discrimination and attacking people who are different than them.
Which is why I think controlling the image you project to the majority about your group as a member of the minority is important so that they can see past the bad and start to really understand you and your people. Going back to my analogy, lots of people think negatively about black people in the US in the past because of a few bad apples who committed a lot of crimes. And it was a very long and difficult task to start convincing people otherwise once the first image was cast because of the fear.
But that is besides the point.
Back to your question, I would blame you yourself for your wrong deeds. Because I know better. But if you did something bad in the states, others who are not so enlightened and the media will first blame Morocco, because it is always easier to blame a foreign country that people don't understand well. Then they will blame your Asian ethnicity, because again, people always fear what they don't understand and lastly, if they run out of people to blame, they will blame the French. Because people like to point fingers to everyone else but themselves.
"There is nothing to fear but fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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One to ten years of imprisonment plus flogging for pecking a foreign non-Muslim individual ( must mention that which is a normal gesture) is a punishment stated by Islam
I completely respect the religion.. But I would like to know what would be the punishment if Hatami had kissed a Muslim boy ?
Absolutely agree with you ! Women in Iran aren't a symbol of innocence and chastity.. They simply are used for oppression.. I guess it is now the time for Islam to break the shell of dark ages and step up... It should follow the Catholics.. |
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The 100gbps speeds over a single link are impressive. Especially when they are stating it's throughput over a long distance. It would be interesting to see what the actual amount of transfer a site could do. Denver technically has 400gbps of throughput since it has 100G connections to 4 locations. And there is most likely a backup feed for each of these sites for failover. Plus they probably still have some redundant 10gbps links as backups. Meaning that Denver really could have up to say 1tbps of bandwidth if everything was turned up at the same time. Chicago is already capable of moving 1tbps and no doubt could be moving much more if it had to.
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Yes. Which is exactly the problem caused by this "hearts and minds" nonsense.
Toss out Maliki, put in a Kurdish strongman who aligns his country with the US, and encourage him to start butchering Sunni Arabs who resist. Saddam could have EASILY put this nonsense down with a bit of well placed brutality. I mean, look at the Anfal campaign to see how to properly do counter-insurgency in the Muslim world. People like ISIS don't understand anything except brute force, which is exactly why they need iron fisted dictators like Bashar Assad or Saddam Hussein to keep them in line.
I agree. Nobody wants to f.... with the Kurds, and they will fuck with anyone. It may be hard to accomplish anything with them because we fucked them under George Bush 1's incursion into Iraq, and instead of getting help from the US, they got gassed by Saddam. For some reason, I have always had a fascination with Kurds. They are awesome, in my opinion. Maybe this is why: When I was a kid (age 14), I played Metal Gear Solid and that was my first introduction to Kurds. Sniper Wolf from Metal Gear Solid is a Kurd. In fact, Metal Gear Solid was one of my chief influences for joining the U.S. Military. After I finished my U.S. Army service, including a deployment to Kuwait, I went back to the University of Colorado at Denver and finished my Political Science Degree. I spent some free time during college studying Kurds and found them to be even more interesting than what Sniper Wolf alone in Metal Gear Solid could be. Kurds don't play games. They don't take kindly to radical Muslims, either. Muslims tend to scatter when word is the Kurds are coming. |
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Hold on, no one is against corporations operating efficiently, right? If PT workers solve their problems you cannot expect them to employ FT workers. And automation is eliminating jobs as well, and nothing can prevent the best, cheapest form of productivity. I nominate this last post for most delusional post of the year so far. If only you had the intelligence to challenge a word of what I wrote.But you do not. |
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I am of the opinion that old fashioned gender stereotypes are being increasingly shattered in today's society which are more open to individual self expression and acceptance of people's choices and orientation in life.
So males and females nowadays no longer feel society's pressure or judgement for them to conform into traditional gender stereotypes lest they be judged and criticized by their family and friends. This has led to a new generation of young people who define the new 'status quo'
So now males no longer feel the need to become the authoritarian dominant alpha male types if they don't feel like it and females no longer want to conform to society's expectation for them to play the submissive role if it's not who they really are. This has resulted in a massive upheaval and reversal of gender roles where nowadays you see working moms and stay at home dads.
However, with the good, also comes the bad. :/ and the female abuse of their significant other is also one of the bad that comes along with such change.
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