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| 2005/1/2 [Uncategorized] UID:35512 Activity:insanely high |
1/2 Someone explain the difference between waist, inseam, and all these
fancy sartorial terminologies? Thanks.
\_ You know what "sartorial" is but you don't know what "waist" and
"inseam" are?
\_ STFW
\_ You do know what a dictionary is don't you?
\_ fancy ... only if you like wearing potato sacks
\_ waist = circumference inseam = length inside leg
rise = length from crotch to waist
outseam = overall length from cuff to waist
inseam + rise = outseam |
| 2005/1/2 [Uncategorized] UID:35513 Activity:nil |
[restored again.] |
| 2005/1/2 [Uncategorized] UID:35514 Activity:very high |
1/2 US often does not deliver the money it pledges.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/30/opinion/30thu2.html
\-I believe the US gives more private charity than
Europe and the US also makes a lot of non money
contributions [security burden, say w.r.t. to
Korea, Taiwan, Japan, NATO etc]. I think these
aggregate numbers dont however capture some
distribution issues. For example the US has
given $200bn in aid to Israel alone [pop ~6m]
over the last 30yrs. If you take out Israel,
Egypt and Philippines, the total numbers are
pretty low. --psb
\_ give me a break. We were "protecting" Phillipines,
but when Japanese invaded, we gave up that island
without putting up with a good fight. Those "security"
burden are imposed by USA themselves for USA's own
interest. To compare what US 7th fleet doing versus
donations from Red Cross is ridiculous.
\- nobody is calling this kind of thing humanitarian
aid, and some of it is certainly self-serving. however
this kind of "hegemonic stability" does have real
benefits. to take a less controversial example, take
the US GPS satellites. the US certainly spent more
resources in europe's backyard in the post-yugoslavia
conflict than a lot of the countries criticizing the
US. i think it's clear i'm not an apologist for
the us govt like some hacks here, but the simplitic
view on aid does miss some very relevant considerations.
--psb
\_ I called that American Imperalism. And there are
plenty of downside to it. You probably don't live
outside USA often, you have no idea what kind of
misdeed Amercan has done to other nations, from
as benign as bending trade rules to American
advantage (DMCA, currency manipulatn) to overthrown
of governments (Iran, Chili, Guatemala, and now,
Afganistan and Iraq); not to mention our barbaric
policy toward dozen Arab nations which spawn radical
Fundamental Islamic movement we are facing today.
It is hard to see the downside of it unless some
other country is dominating the world. Given the
choice, I would much prefer three to five
dominating powers in the world than American
hegemony. -kngharv
\_ Maybe this is off-topic, but no one really has a
right to complain. The fifth fleet and US military
has secured Middle East oil for 15 y. World sea
commerce prospers because the US Navy, and less so
\- well, it's not only the USNavy ... for example the
indian navy does some anti-piracy stuff in the
indian ocean. not all the security issues are
state vs state, "high politics" and national
security, but yeah there are a lot of free-
riding and coat tail effects [like the us funded
tsunami monitoring program] but a lot of that is
pocket change. the US's real power is to shape
things in "convenient" directions ... like in
the area of IP regimes ... like the GE/Chakraborty
oil eating bacteria case that opened the door to
orgaism patents, but the place with soverignty
over where some useful organism is found in nature
doesnt necessarily have any rights [say amazon],
or the exceptions to free trade [steel, agri,
textiles] etc.
\_ India doesn't have a blue water navy, only the
US and less so Britain. I would not call
maintaining the US Navy and enforcing the doctrine
of MAD during the Cold War or ABM now as
"pocket change".
\_ "ABM"? You mean anti-missile defense? You
have got to be fucking kidding me. Yeah,
without the charity of the American tax payer,
those poor defense contractors might actually
have to build useful stuff that actually fucking
works. Let us all take a moment to thank God
and the GOP for giving them this bounty of pork.
\_ TMD already functions... I'm not fucking
kidding you.
\_ wtf is TMD? Total missile defense?
I don't believe it, and if it existed,
it would be instant missile crisis.
Related question: Why does W trust the
ABM but tests the kids every year to make
sure?
\_ TMD == The Mean Dude. He's a 280 lbs
redneck who sits on a rock on Kodiak
island with a billion dollar
shotgun and hundred million dollar
shells. If he sees a missile with
a North Korean flag on it go over head,
he takes long pull from his flask of
hundred million dollar moonshine and
blasts away. TMD has an over 75%
success rate against all road sign
test targets.
\- there are problems the US doesnt consider of
interest and the dont devote resources to it.
i am not saying the us's "hegemony" doesnt
have widespread benefits. i gave a specific
example of "regional maritime policing". i didnt
say they have a global projection capability
and i am not sure why it is important to decide
whether it is a "blue water fleet" or not. --psb
the British, secures the high seas. No one else
has a blue water navy. And don't overlook the paltry
contribution of a few trillion during the Cold
War.
\_ People took it for granted, but if the US had not
wiped out the aborigines, the world would have been
under the tyranny of the indians. There would be no silicon
implant nor viagra. The whole world benefited from US!!! |
| 2005/1/2 [Recreation/Dating] UID:35515 Activity:high |
1/2 http://www.coolnurse.com/consent.htm I didn't know it's illegal in so many states to have m/m or f/f. What's the punishment if caught? Jail? Fine? \_ Well, in Texas, according to the laws on the books, just having oral or anal sex with your own wife is a third degree felony, the maximum pushiment for which is 10 years in jail and a 10,000 dollar fine. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/statutes/pe.toc.htm See the section on "offenses against the family." Although, if you look at the exact wording of the law, all you have to do is prove that neither of you were aroused by the "deviate activity" and you'll be off the hook. Now why can't major natural disasters ever happen in Texas? \_ in Texas where all the morally right and good people live, they're asking why natural disasters can't kill off all the evil gays, wicked lesbians, and damn minorities who live in CA and are corrupting the pure Southern race. \_ The religious right, in their own words: http://csua.org/u/ak0 "Sodomitical acts have not only external consequences like death, disease and childlessness..." "Does your friend know that the rate of syphilis among women who practice lesbianism is 19 times what it is among other women?" Fuck Iran and Syria, if you want to fight religious zealots bent on destroying the American way of life, I say nuke Colorado Springs first. \_ Pointing and laughing. \_ Wow, I didn't realize that some states had 14 as the age of consent! |
| 2005/1/2 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:35516 Activity:very high |
1/2 Sean Penn says bad things about Bush and it gets published, how did it
happen, on *FOX*??? http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,143079,00.html
\_ because fox viewer's estimation of actors opinions are the same as
tom's evident opinion of published author's opinions. When some
hollywood celeb says somthing bad about Bush, it is probably taken
as a sure sign he's doing the right thing.
\_ crebbs, if you're going to personally insult me, have the balls
to sign your name.
Oh, and you're also an idiot. -tom
\_ Not really a personal insult as much as a slight. -crebbs
\_ now there's a fine hair to split. -tom
\_ <shrug>, You said something I thought idiotic, I
simply referred to it, that is a slight. If I
said, "you said this, you are an idiot" that would
be a personal insult. I see a significant distinction
there, but whatever. Whether or not that distinction
has any bearing on whether or not I should sign my name
is another question. -crebbs
\_ "Slight: The act of slighting; the manifestation of a
moderate degree of contempt, as by neglect or
oversight."
So, you're wrong. And it is clearly pathetic to
insult (or "slight" or "diss" or whatever term you
wish to use) someone by name while trying to
remain anonymous. -tom
\_ Words fail me.
\_ It is clearly pathetic to have words fail
you while trying to remain anonymous.
\_ tom, you're a crank. sometimes you're a lovable crank, but
in general you're just a crank. of course, I only know you
through the motd, so your Real Life persona may be entirely
different. --erikred
\_ Not the word I would use. -- ilyas
\_ YOU ARE THE ONES WHO ARE THE BALL LICKERS...
-Silent Bob and Jay |